The requirements for a psychopathology of the future settle on the demand of psychiatric science for good explanations of psychiatric illnesses accompanied by an understanding of patients' experiences. This effort, already underway, has focused on the conceptual and practical connection between these two dimensions, translated into the attempt to link the advances in neurobiological explanations and sophisticated understanding of patients' personal and cultural experiences. When considering

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... nosis, strategies have been divided between symptomatological approaches, more or less complex, and interpretative approaches, more or less sophisticated. Due to its complex and heterogeneous nature, schizophrenia has been the center of convergence of this integrative effort of the two types of approach mentioned above. On the one hand, the scientific or explanatory approach to schizophrenia leads us to search for the first cause, the ultimate reason for this strange and bizarre way of being in the world. Much progress has been made in this area, and it is now consensual that schizophrenia is a brain disease, although little is known about the multiple conjugations of the most varied factors that, in fine, end up determining the condition of schizophrenia. Nevertheless, this categorization is fundamental for the implementation of an adequate intervention strategy. This approach, called objective, says nothing about the individual processes that characterize this particular subject in the path of understanding his way of being in the world that, despite the uniqueness of individual experience, may shed light on the general structure of common experiences. It is the phenomenological analysis that deals not only with the content of the subjective experience but also, and above all, with its structure. Its validation criteria are not the same as those that al-