Semeiotica e diagnosi psico(pato)logica

Psycho(patho)logical semeiotics and diagnosis

A. Stefana1, A. Gamba2

1 Psicologo; 2 Psicologo psicoterapeuta, Unità Operativa di Psicologia dell’Età Evolutiva, A.O. “San Gerardo”, Monza, Italia

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Summary

With a subjective experience of pain, the patient is at the heart of the medical profession. Even in a psychiatric intervention, the meeting between clinician and patient, mutual observations and interaction reveal details about a certain problem, which – in this context – becomes configured and embodied. Herein, to the authors present arguments on how psychiatric semeiotics must be based on adequately articulated epistemological awareness.