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Study programmes 2013-2014Last update : 13/05/2014
PSYC0047-1  General psychopathological semiology

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Master en sciences psychologiques, à finalité spécialisée en psychologie clinique, 1st year3
Lecturer :  Jérôme Englebert
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Course contents :  
This course aims at introducing the practice of psychopathology in a clinical and phenomenological perspective. Particular attention will be paid to the descriptive dimension, the psychopathological semiology, the comprehensive dimension and the methodological aspects of diagnosis. The nosographies and major psychopathology and personality disorders will be discussed in the light of phenomenological psychopathology and evolutionary psychiatry and ethology.
Meanwhile, we will discuss the issues of body, space, time, emotions, identity, consciousness, etc. in the contemporary practice of clinical psychology and its epistemology debates.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
Acquire the basic notions to identify psychic functions and psychopathology disorder essential to the clinical examination.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
Psychiatrie (PSYC1005-1) and Question de philosophie (PHIL0054-1) are not really prerequisites but useful for this course.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Lectures with clinical case presentations and theoretical syntheses.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
First lesson: 23 September, auditorium Marx (B31).
Recommended or required readings :  
A reference book will be proposed to students and an additional bibliography (and optional) will be given by the teacher during the first lesson.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
January session. Open questions of restitution and reflection from short clinical cases.
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
Jerome.englebert@ulg.ac.be


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