Abstract

TOLEDO, Mauricio; ALMADA, Ramiro  and  VILLALBA, Luis. Psychiatric paradigms and psychopharmacology. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.2, pp.176-191. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v8.n2.12.

Abstract: Psychopharmacology has been constituted over the last decades in a fundamental tool for addressing the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Like all technological developments that are effective and capable of generating substantive changes, there are lights and shadows. The development of antipsychotics, antidepressants and anxiolytics allowed to begin to effectively treat morbid psychiatric processes as never before. To such an extent, that it undermined the concept of psychiatric asylum by that of hospital or care units, that is, a new healthcare organization was created. However, we are still far from an optimal pharmaco-therapeutic option. In an assistance context where there is an increase in the consumption of psychotropic drugs, the development by the pharmaceutical industry of molecules that do not constitute therapeutic novelties and a research system guided by the eyes of medicine based on evidence. In turn, current psychiatry is immersed in a theoretical and epistemological pluralism that has banished psychopathology as a way of understanding or interpreting the symptom. This double condition of theoretical pluralism and sometimes inadequate use of the drug-therapy condition our clinical practice. In this work we aim to address generically the development of psychiatry from the perspective of paradigms, genesis and psychopharmacological development and consider the relevance of a psychopathological model such as Henry Ey's organo-dynamism.

Keywords : Psychiatry; Paradigms; Psychopharmacology; Organo-dynamism.

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