[The concept of psychosis].
Psychosis is a core psychopathological concept with clinical, legal and ethical implications. DSM IV and ICD 10 define psychosis through the presence of certain symptoms, but fail to provide a description and analysis of the meaning of the concept. It is concluded that psychosis is a so-called primitive term, i.e. a term referring to a way of being of a-person-in-context that cannot be reduced to simpler elements and which, therefore, defies operationalization, but does not preclude acquisition of adequate clinical (inter-rater) reliability.
Parnas
Josef
J
Center for Subjektivitetsforskning, Njalsgade 142-144, DK-2300 København S. jpa@hum.ku.dk
D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D009626:Terminology as Topic