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Epistemological opacity and the historical formation of descriptive psychopathology in French alienism

History of Psychiatry

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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 ...