Resumen

CHRISTIANSEN RENAUD, María L.. El fundamento y el uso de las clasificaciones científicas: dinámicas desfasadas. Valenciana [online]. 2010, vol.3, n.5, pp.67-88. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i5.236.

This paper sets out epistemological problems raised by psychological and psychiatric classificatory practices, and it examines critically some premises supported by antipsychiatric movement against the psychiatric naturalism. In order to tackle the heated debate about the Reality / Construction of mental disorders -and its taxonomical implications- the famous Ian Hacking´s thesis about the looping effect derived from classificatory practices is proposed and analyzed. Finally, the exposed ideas are applied to Psychometry, a prevalent tendency at the present psychology. the aim is to evaluate the explanatory fertility of the epistemological positions established in this paper.

Palabras llave : psychiatry; antipsychiatry; classification; mental illness; looping effect; psychometry.