Philosophy, psychiatry psychological concepts and is a pioneer text in an area where serious philosophical reflection is urgently required, that is, the fundamentals of psychology and psychiatry. Hence what in this book are clarifications are fundamental psychological concepts (such as "emotion" and "memory"), detailed descriptions concerning the nature of psychiatry and work on it and concerning specific discussions to some of its practical consequences undesirable generated by deep philosophical misunderstandings. Attached to a well-known philosophical tradition, the author distinguishes between scientific practice and philosophical interpretation of that practice. It can thus discern relative sharpness between genuine and pseudo-empirical problems conceptual problems. Without sinking into the work of exegesis of texts of other thinkers, the author clearly falls within a particular philosophical tradition, namely, the tradition started by the great Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Hence much of the content of the book are exercises conceptual elucidation work "grammatical analysis", ie, a review of uses and applications of the relevant terms ( 'thought', 'belief', 'privacy', 'unreasonableness ' and else). These analyzes are involved in many examples, contrasts and imaginary situations, so that the views that are clearly delineated and defended solidly argued.

It is worth emphasizing that the work of Alexander Tomasini Bassols not limited to a series of abstract considerations, but also aims to show how results obtained in the conceptual analysis can be useful in everyday psychiatric practice. The ultimate goal is indeed help practitioners of some scientific discipline to avoid the conceptual entanglements and knots of thought in which traditional philosophy inevitably makes them fall.