La pensée interdisciplinaire en psychiatrie: Théorie et pratique

Abstract

The interdisciplinary thought has an impact on psychiatry. A simplification into three integrated domains, where theory and practice are united, brings better understanding. A general domain concerns the actual development of this thought. The theoretical reasons for this are hence: the formation of the disciplines, the bridges between them which become established gradually, and the emergences which result from that. These are the effect of three progressive phases: The expansion of the domain of knowledge, the integration of the different modes of thinking, and the appearance of new levels of organisation. Their connections support the robustness of the interdisciplinary thought. A domain of clinical and epistemological psychiatry corroborates this general dynamic as shown by the descriptive historical analysis of the current trends of knowledge, the dynamic analysis of the dominant modes of thought, and the structural analysis which expresses further advancement. A domain of application in psychiatry is illustrated by the systemal realisation developed by the author during about forty years. It recalls the sociocultural conditions, the general orientation (scientific, epistemological, philosophical, and ethical), the principles (expansion of the relational domain, reassurance of the methods of thinking, organisation of the domain of studies), the ways of practical application (matrix structures for reference, spatiotemporal organisation, modellings beginning with extraction of invariants). The loans from other disciplines are emphasized.