Pain Assessment in 21st-Century Neuropsychiatry. Introducing Plural, Perspective, Situated Epistemic Frames for the Epidiagnostic Characterisation of Pain Experiences

Abstract

[EN]The present work focuses on clinical epistemology as applied to diagnostic evaluation in neuropsychiatry: this study centres the epistemic accounts of assessing another person’s experiences of pain, seeking for describing and framing, from contemporary epistemologies, the scientific practices performed by clinicians in the process of evaluating and diagnosing neuropsychiatrically compromised pain-bearing patients.