THE ICARUS SYNDROME AS A MIXED FORM OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL DIATHESIS

This article discusses one of the possible solutions to the global methodological crisis in modern psychiatric research: the use of a multidisciplinary approach, combining clinical and psychoanalytical methods for studying mental disorders. For example, the concept of the Icarus syndrome is justified on the admissibility of the psychoanalytic interpretation of such notions as “complexes” in terms of their belonging to the particular forms of the boundary constitutional state - psychopathological diathesis. Significant attention is paid to the disclosure of the latest definition: the article considers the modern view on the problem of psychopathological diathesis, describes the basic principles for the use of the universals in clinical practice, characterizing its basic shape from the point of view of their tropism to various types of psychoses and further dynamics of development. On the basis of a consistent comparison of the above criteria of psychopathological diathesis and previously extracted features characterizing the Icarus syndrome, a comparative analysis of these concepts is carried out. Thus the authors come to the conclusionabout the possibility of the existence of mixed forms of psychopathological diathesis as the non-determinism of certain development towards separately interpreted “large” psychosis, but supporting the trend of alternative-divergent dynamics of individual evolution. This conclusion proves the tendency of possibility of using the concept of “complex” as a more convenient from the system - synergetic and holistic points of view to characterize similar intermediate forms of psychopathological diathesis in clinical descriptions and the reality of its use as one of the foundations of a new psychiatric classification.

Icarus syndrome, a psychopathological diathesis, complex, borderline pathology, holistic approach