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It is more than 40 years since Professor German E. Berrios first started to rewrite the history of psychiatry and psychopathology, an activity which he has continued unabated. His ‘conceptual’ method has enabled him to explain how the convergence of words, concepts, and ‘abnormal’ behaviours influences the historical and epistemological continuity of mental disorders, and has challenged modern symptom-based psychiatric classifications as no atheoretical diagnostic language exists. These notes briefly describe my experience of working at Cambridge under Professor Berrios, and how his method has forged thinking and research into psychopathology.
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Castagnini, A.C. (2020). Notes on the Work of Professor German E. Berrios. In: Marková, I.S., Chen, E. (eds) Rethinking Psychopathology. Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43439-7_3
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