Critics to empiricism applied to clinical psychopathology: from the sterility of the DSM to an issue by psychoanalysis. The empiricist tradition of medicine imposed its model upon the clinic in psychopathology. Thus, Psychiatry constructed its diagnostic methods based on the empiricists' principles of direct observation. In the contemporary context, this tradition mainly appears with the non-theoretical initiative of the DSM. Treatments will follow this scientific ideal, which definitely alienates the subject from its suffering. This paper discusses such a proposition and opposes the psychoanalytical proposal as the only solution to the scientific-positivist discourse in psychopathology.
Empiricism; psychopathology; DSM; psychoanalysis