Castilla del Pino's contribution to a scientific psychopathology

This paper attempts to express critically the basic concepts in the extensive writings on psychopathology of the Spanish author, Castilla del Pino. These are otherwise only available to the world in Castilian. His work offers a way in which the course and depth of psychotic disorders could be charted mathematically. It illustrates the fact that, what is apparently objective is still necessarily so within the confines of the conventions of our languages, from which we cannot ever escape. He nevertheless shows how psychopathology is not therefore fundamentally different from other sciences, even if its development remains rudimentary.