Abstract:
Based on the study of mental disorders manuals, we highlight problematic outcomes of the way they are structured. According to our hypothesis, their wide use (in clinical practice) is founded upon the insertion of a naïve realism into the investigation (both theoretical and clinical) - and also on the absence of further ontological considerations (which would indicate the kind of interactivity between subject and the other). This generates a looping effect regarding classificatory diagnosis. Thus, we propose that the lack of taking ontology into consideration implies the construction of clinical models that lose their transformative space, by focusing on observation and description.
Keywords:
diagnostic manuals; ontology; epistemology of psychoanalysis; critique of metaphysics