Department of Psychiatry
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Residency Program in PsychiatryDidacticsPhenomenologyCourse Directors
Overall Course Goals and ObjectivesTo develop a vocabulary for the recognition and description of psychopathology [method], and a conceptual framework to classify the techniques used for the above descriptions [methodology]. Philosophical UnderpinningsIn this course, residents are exposed to two philosophical underpinnings of descriptive psychiatry, that of phenomenology, in which psychic phenomena are represented, defined, and classified (Jaspers, 1912), and that of perspectivism—the idea that “the constituents of mental life are diverse and heterogeneous” (McHugh and Slavney, 1983, 1987, 1999). As residents develop more appreciation for the inner experience of their patients, the importance of meticulous objective descriptions of symptomatology becomes more obvious. ReadingsMcHugh, P.R., The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Sims, A., Symptoms in the Mind, London: Balliere Tindall, 1995. PGY-IIThe course is taught during the second year. Symptoms and syndromes are first presented from a disease perspective, and diagnostic classification is expanded beyond the DSM-IV review of the PGY-I year to include more subtle and complex considerations of symptomatology. Both diagnoses and symptom-complexes are then revisited from additional perspectives (behavioral and dimensional). The topics addressed are outlined below. Course Outline
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