Társadalmi patológia és pszichopatológia

Abstract

Abstract The paper aims at outlining a critical theory grounded on the level of the experience of suffering. As suffering is analysed in a systematic way by therapeutic approaches, psychiatric and psychological descriptions of various forms of suffering are used as a theoretical starting point. Firstly forms of socialization that explain psychopathologies understood as idealtypes of losing one’s capability of acting are identified. Secondly forms introducing psychotherapies that is the praxis oriented to correct psychopathologies are identified. The example used in the first case is obsessive-compulsive disorder, and cognitive therapy in the second case. In order to conceptualise forms of socialization, a previously elaborated network model of the theories of Bourdieu, Giddens, Habermas, Honneth and Lash is applied. Keywords: critical theory, psychopathology