title: [Is global equivalent to multifocal? The whole and its parts in psychiatry and neurology].
abstract: According to an influential trend within contemporary neurology, psychiatry should abandon terms like "organic brain syndrome" or "dementia", which are regarded as out-dated. Such terms which imply the questionable possibility of global disturbances of the psychic apparatus, should be replaced by a classification based on detailed neuropsychological analysis. The response of psychiatry to this challenge is essentially lacking. An examination of the reasons leads us to the methodological contradiction between categorical and global models. We consider that we here are not confronted by a decision between mutually exclusive alternatives but that the two models necessarily complement each other. From this it follows that only a biperspectivistic view is adequate to the matter under consideration. This is equally requisite both for psychiatry and neurology, though an accentuation of the one or the other perspective may be expedient for each individual syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Klinik und Poliklinik, Freien Universität Berlin.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ulrich
mesh_terms: D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003704:Dementia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009626:Terminology as Topic
vernacular_title: Ist global gleich multifokal? Das Ganze und seine Teile in Psychiatrie und Neurologie.