A proposito della valutazione psichiatrica

• Main Author: Mario Bottone
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2015-12-01
• Series: Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary
• Subjects: symptom; evaluation; sign; discourse of the university; disorder; mental health
• Online Access: http://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/IMAGO/article/view/1164

This article scrutinizes the evaluation criteria which operate in the field of psychiatry and psychology. It focuses, in particular, on the American psychiatric manual DSM- 5, showing that its use of a quantitative and statistic language tends to erase specific subjectivity. The language used is fully supported by the university discourse imposing a main signfier, the Lacanian Un. The article also examines the function of the imaginary within the evaluating procedures and its relevance regarding the current definitions of disorder and mental health.