The text presents some considerations on the fundamental psychopathology and mental health intersection. The author begins by a small digression on the Greek concept of Pathos, starting from its very origins up to its most common meaning: the medical sense of disease. A discussion on the origins of psychopathology as an established discipline is then made followed by a presentation of the fundamental psychopathology historictheoretical background, its points of view on both the onset and the organization of the psychic mechanism as well as the relationships between fundamental psychopathology and other schools of psychopathologies.
Finally the author shows that the fundamental psychopathology main viewpoints are useful instruments to be used on public health politics.
Fundamental psychopathology; pathos; mental health; citizenship