[Personality and endogeneity in psychopathology]

Personality and endogenity built the background of available concept necessary to understand the different manifestations of mental illness. In spite of coming from different tradition, now a days both of them have converged. The object this study is ti reconstruct of genesis of these two concepts in a way there convergence could be understood. This convergence is not obvious but full of consequences. The concept of personality has had along way beginning with the origin of occidental thought. During the last century this concept has been drastically reduced according to the necessity of using it in a predetermined way. On the other way the concept of endogenity comes from the degenerationist theory and has deep roots in positivism. The convergence between personality and endogenity is produced understanding personality as biological conditioned and endogenity as vulnerability. This solution is clearly unsatisfactory leading to aporias and important difficulties as the nosological crisis we live now a days. One way to overcome this difficulty it is showed in Tellenbach work. Another solution as a future task should be based on changing the concept of mental illness creating the categories to think about it.