Psychopathology is in this textbook regarded as the “mediator” between the psychology of the so-called normal person and psychiatry, two “sisters” who quite often do not see eye to eye. Although at the beginning of this century new insights were gained through the discoveries of depth psychology and gestalt psychology, most current textbooks of psychiatry disregard these findings and describe, designate, and distinguish between psychopathological phenomena in the customary way, guided by epistemological and