The contributions of Kraepelin, Bleuler and Bergson to Minkowski’s clinical phenomenology of schizophrenia

This article presents the clinical phenomenology of schizophrenia constructed by the psychiatrist Eug ène Minkowski through theoretical influences from the ideas of Kraepelin, Bleuler and Bergson. Minkowski ’ s interest in discussing schizophrenia is to be able to determine this pathology. Although references are constantly made by him to Bleuler for having been his student, it is in Bergson ’ s philosophy that he finds a solid source to further his discussion of the structural aspect of schizophrenia. With this philosophical influence, it is possible to understand schizophrenia as a loss of vital contact with reality and not as a relaxation of associations, as Bleuler pointed out. We conclude that using the clinical phenomenology of the loss of vital contact with reality and the understanding of schizophrenia as a loss of this contact with the world allows for a new direction to study this pathology as a pathology of intersubjectivity.R ésumé Le présent article se propose à discuter la phénoménologie clinique de la schizophrénie construite par le psychiatre Eugène Minkowski à travers les influences théoriques issues des idées de Kraepelin, Bleuler et Bergson. L ’ int érêt de Minkowski lorsqu ’ il élabore une discussion sur la schizophrénie est de parvenir à avoir une délimitation de cette pathologie. Même si on reconnaît qu ’ il mentionne constamment Bleuler, vu qu ’ il était son élève, c ’ est dans la philosophie de Bergson qu ’ il tro...
Source: Psicologia USP - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research