Brief history of classifications in psychiatry

• Autor(a) principal: Martinhago, Fernanda
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Caponi, Sandra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: INTERthesis
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/1807-1384.2019v16n1p73

In contemporary society, there is a large number of people diagnosed with mental disorders in several continents. In this context, we seek to delineate the historical trajectory of classifications in psychiatry, from the nineteenth century to the present day. The first attempt to classify psychiatric disorders was in 1840 from the frequency measurement of two categories. The last classification that precedes the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) appears in 1918, with 22 categories. In 1952, the first edition of the DSM was published, and later the Manual was reformulated until the fifth edition, which was launched in 2013. Classifications in psychiatry were created to obtain statistical data on the population and to seek a universal language on mental pathologies. In clinical practice, there are many controversies regarding the classifications in psychiatry since this breaks with the critical philosophical theories that constituted the characteristics of the mental pathologies. History shows us that there was a fissure in the way of understanding psychic suffering, and from there the subjectivity and the life history of the subjects were extinguished.