descriptive psychiatry

Japanese: descriptive psychiatry(英語表記)descriptivepsychiatry
descriptive psychiatry

...A concept that represents a certain standpoint in psychiatry. In contrast to descriptive psychiatry, which describes and classifies a static cross-sectional image of mental symptoms and phenomena, this approach seeks to grasp and understand the mechanisms and meanings of mental phenomena in a longitudinal and dynamic manner. The central theory is Freud's psychoanalysis, but A. Meyer's ideas on psychobiology also belong to the same lineage, and became popular in the United States, where he lived.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…精神医学上の一立場をあらわす概念。精神症状や精神現象を把握するのに,ある静的な横断面における状態像を記述し,分類していく記述精神医学descriptive psychiatryに対し,精神現象の成立のメカニズム,意味を縦断的かつ動的に把握,理解しようとする方法をとる。その中心となる理論は,フロイトの精神分析であるが,A.マイヤーの精神生物学の考え方も同じ系列に属し,彼のいたアメリカにおいて盛んになった。…

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