Tracking the Objects of the Psychopathology

On Interdisciplinarity of Psychopathology on the Margins of
Historia polskiego szaleństwa

Avant, Vol. XI, No. 1, doi: 10.26913/avant.2020.01.05
published under license CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Przemysław R. Nowakowski orcid-id
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
pnowakowski @ ifispan.waw.pl

Published Online First 12 December 2019   Download full text

Abstract: This paper is a loose commentary on Marcinów’s book (2017). The commentary is focused on the objects of psychopathological investigations and the role of psychology / psychiatry tension in the process of singling out, tracking, and describing them. As a consequence, there are limitations of collaborative and integrative efforts between psychologists and psychiatrists where questions of psychopathology are concerned.

Keywords: Mira Marcinów; psychopathology; history of psychology; history of psychiatry; biography of psychological objects; interdisciplinarity


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