A fourteenth-century painting by Hieronymous Bosch showing trephining
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What’s in a word? Quite a lot it would seem. When I did my first degree in psychology in the 1970s, I studied a field called abnormal psychology. Once it was even called madness. Today, it is mainly called psychopathology.
The changes have not been merely semantic. They reflect the way we address all of the issues associated with mental health, including definition, diagnosis and treatment. Treatments have been dealt with throughout this volume of PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW by Matt Jarvis’s columns (the one in this issue is on page 24). This article completes the picture by considering defi-nition and diagnosis.
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