Reflections on teaching clinical psychopathology to psychology degree students

Abstract

The article focuses on the need to reflect on how to help students of psychology to put out into the study of clinical psychopathology trying to avoid the danger of different reductionisms threatening the discipline. To this purpose this speaks about the importance of the phenomenological model, speaking of itspros and cons, and provides a description of the most significant problems and complexities that revolve around this discipline. Finally, it raises the need for an approach from the paradigm of complexity that can account properly for human psychopathology.