Abstract
This paper discusses some aspects concerning to use of diagnostical classifications in mental health, such as the nosographic model present at CID-10 and DSM-5. It highlights the clinical practice, wherein the standardization and normatizing of psychic suffering overlap the study of the clinical case. The diagnostical classifications assume that all kind of malaise can be codified and diagnosed and induce a normative operationalization of human suffering. Thus, behaviours and problems inherent to common existence on pathologies are transformed, and possibilities of producing meanings for certain modes of suffering are restricted. This paper concludes on the need for the current diagnostic model to reintegrate some experiential elements to diagnostic clinical practice in mental health to avoid the risks of the increasing reduction of the processes of illness to its symptoms.
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