Psychopathology
Psychopathology is an area of knowledge that aims to study the psychic states related to mental suffering. It is the area of study that is the basis of psychiatry, whose approach is clinical. It is a field of knowledge, a set of discourses with varied objects, methods, questions: on the one hand, biological disciplines and neurosciences are at their bases, and on the other, it is constituted with innumerable knowledge from psychoanalysis, psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, linguistics and history. Psychopathology can be considered a field of research mainly of psychoanalysts, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists. The word "Psycho-duck-logia" is composed of three Greek words: "psyche", which produced "psyche", "psychism", "psychic", "soul"; "pathos," which resulted in "passion," "excess," "passage," "passivity," "suffering," and "logos," resulting in "logic," "speech," "narrative, . Psychopathology would then be a discourse, a knowledge, (logos) about suffering, (pathos) of the mind (psyche). That is, a representative discourse on pathos, psychic suffering, on psychic suffering.