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Tempo psicanalitico

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Abstract

CALAZANS, Roberto  and  LUSTOZA, Rosane Zétola. The medication of psychic: the use of the term psychosis in statistical diagnostic manuals. Tempo psicanal. [online]. 2014, vol.46, n.1, pp. 11-26. ISSN 0101-4838.

The purpose of this article is to show the process of medication of psychic through examples of how psychosis is treated in diagnosis and mental disorder statistical manuals, specially the DSM-IV-TR. Firstly, there is a debate between psychoanalysis and biological psychiatry. Then, it is presented how the psychosis is treated in the DSM-IV-TR and its lacking when compared these definitions with the psychoanalytical clinic ones.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; psychosis; medication; statistical diagnostic manuals.

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