The necessary subjectivity of both evidence based and narrative based psychiatry

摘要

One of the present psychiatric and medical paradigm is better known as the "evidence based medicine", which for mot people is the only objective and scientific practice. However, a growing number of professionals claim the importance of the subjectivity inherent to the human being, and the so called "narrative based medicine". This article shows that both conflicting ways of looking at medicine is also the product of the dual pattern of thinking acquired early during a person’s development. Also the unavoidable subjectivity that accompanies science in general is vindicated, and with it, the narrative based psychiatry and evidence based psychiatry. Both most find ways of objectivity but without taking subjectivity as the evil to avoid, but as an integral and not to be despised part of the psiquism and truth