The psychiatric community of practices: Integration of complementary narratives

Aims Medicine and psychiatry are communities of practice (professions, praxiologies) oriented to persons conceived as meta-narratives based on partial narratives. Method This work will analyze the different aspects of the praxis, constituted by different narrative languages: the psychological, the behavioral and the experiential ones. Results This psychophysiological triad permits the construction of the subject through his/her narrative identity (subjectuality, as distinct from subjectivity). Discussion At the social level, disorder is expressed as discourses: subjective (illness), objective (disease) and interpersonal (sickness). Conclusion Professional knowledge is the appropriate architecture of discourses with a social aim (e.g. curing, healing, teaching and protecting).