Psychiatry is the science that aims to propose plausible theories in the description and explanation of “body-mind” pathologies. Since also the modern institution of science produces a type of discourse aimed at reducing human insecuritas through a progressive falsification of conjectures on how things are actually, it seems very important to monitor the discursive construction of un-certainty about an extremely elusive object such as the abnormality of psychic functioning. In the light of this, the present paper aims to identify what changes are traceable in the argumentative structure of un-certainty in the psychiatric scientific communication by the British Journal of Psychiatry in its life span as well as how the construction of socially “credible” authorship profiles evolves. The randomly-selected 90 articles from the 160 years of the BJP life cycle were analyzed through various interpretative apparatuses, by practicing both bottom-up and top-down approaches. Indeed, in the perspective of cultural and discursive psychology, un-certainty is a multidimensional discursive construction which is not attributable to the psycho-linguistic level of the utterance in its entirety, but to the meta-pragmatic dimension of enunciation. The identified rhetoric, which collects the groupings of enunciative profiles, sees the researcher evolving between the explorer’s attempts, the investigator’s inquiries and the critical rigor of the technician.

精神病学是一门旨在在描述和解释“身心障碍”病理学中提出合理理论的科学。由于现代科学机构也产生了一种旨在减少人类不安全感的话语通过对事物实际情况的猜想的逐步伪造，监视对诸如心理功能异常之类的极其难以捉摸的物体的不确定性的话语建构似乎非常重要。有鉴于此，本文旨在确定在《英国精神病学杂志》的整个生命周期中，精神病学科学传播的不确定性的论证结构中可追溯到哪些变化，以及社会“可信性”的构建方式如何。作者身份简介不断发展。通过实践自下而上和自上而下的方法，通过各种解释性工具分析了BJP生命周期160年中随机选择的90篇文章。实际上，从文化和话语心理学的角度来看，不确定性是多维的话语结构，它不完全归因于话语的心理语言水平，而是归因于口头表达的元语用意义。识别出的言辞，收集了可表达的轮廓，使研究者在探索者的尝试，研究者的询问和技术人员的严格要求之间不断发展。