《精神病理學》是以臨床精神病學的概念、模式和診斷類別為中心的研究記錄。該雜志發表的研究旨在提高解釋概念的可靠性和準確性，應用于描述性精神病理學，現象學和臨床診斷。與未解決的分類和鑒別診斷問題相關的研究結果，以及說明精神病理現象動態的論文被強調。Psychopathology評估最近在生物學、心理學和社會學方面的研究，其重要性的理解和治療精神障礙。

Psychopathologyí is a record of research centered on the concepts, models and diagnostic categories of clinical psychiatry. The journal publishes studies designed to increase the reliability and precision of explanatory concepts applied in descriptive psychopathology, phenomenology, and clinical diagnostics. Findings relevant to unresolved problems of classification and differential diagnosis are stressed together with papers illustrating the dynamics of psychopathologic phenomena. ?Psychopathologyí evaluates recent research in biology, psychology and sociology in terms of its importance to the understanding and treatment of mental disorders.