Abstract

ARAUJO, Zahiry Martínez  and  YANNARELLA, Wendy Estrella. Tres miradas, una apuesta: aproximaciones teóricas a la esquizofrenia. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2010, vol.10, n.2, pp. 369-396. ISSN 1518-6148.

The issue of schizophrenia has always been a difficult matter to understand, hence the need to open (and keep it open) the debate about its origin and destination, its diagnosis and treatment, from diverse perspectives within the area of mental health and social sciences and humanities in general are interested in participating. This paper shows, at first, a brief review of the history of schizophrenia term and its application from the psychiatry and the emerging psychoanalysis; afterward, it is described the concept and features of schizophrenia and specially its symptoms from a traditional perspective of medical psychiatry. Later on, it is addressed more carefully the critical and alternatives contributions made by psychoanalysis, with emphasis on Freudian and lacanian perspective, as well as the double bind communicational theory -from the known Palo Alto School- to address, describe and understand the situations and actors that shape the emergence of schizophrenia, as a symptom, constitution and / or process. Similar views are found on these critical perspectives, even though they are so distant and different, such as the focus on the path and shape of a subject who has been isolated from the social discourse and hence its social ties are broken. Finally, we propose some commitments about how to care the patient with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, pointing to the ethical and human dignity.

Keywords : Schizophrenia; Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis; Double bind; Discourse.

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