Epistemological opacity and the historical formation of descriptive psychopathology in French alienism
Published online on July 28, 2026
Abstract
History of Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
Epistemological opacity designates a recurrent tension within the clinical encounter, the point at which psychiatric categories make experience intelligible while also revealing their own insufficiency. It is not simple ignorance, nor merely a gap ...
Epistemological opacity designates a recurrent tension within the clinical encounter, the point at which psychiatric categories make experience intelligible while also revealing their own insufficiency. It is not simple ignorance, nor merely a gap ...