The Phenomenological Method as an Opening to Psychopathology and Psychotherapy

Abstract

From the phenomenological position of philosophy numerous projections have been made on the field of psychopathology, to generate suitable tools and practical positions to define what corresponds to an approach through the natural sciences through the so-called sciences of the spirit. This position has the relevant merit of firstly allowing access, to other individuals, as an empathic approach in both normal and pathological psychology. In a second instance, and according to the comprehensibility of the acts and attitudes observed in other people, the method in question enables a rigorous categorical diagnostic approach, according to the methodological debate of the delimitation of the sciences, with all its implications in the psychopathological taxonomy. The exclusion of the observed from the scope of the comprehensible to the scope of the explicable is no less central in the psychopathological approach. This implies the attribution of what is incomprehensible to what is caused or to what is causally generated from the realm of nature, concretely, from the sphere of delirium in the strict sense, to the pathology in the natural medical sense. Biology opens an explanatory possibility before a phenomenon that is incomprehensible from the perspective of the sciences of the spirit.