There have been renewed calls to use phenomenology in psychiatry to improve knowledge about causation, diagnostics, and treatment of mental health conditions. A phenomenological approach aims to elucidate the subjective experiences of mental health, which its advocates claim have been largely neglected by current diagnostic frameworks in psychiatry (eg, DSM-5). The consequence of neglecting rich phenomenological information is a comparatively more constrained approach to theory development, empirical research, and care programmes. Although calls for more phenomenology in psychiatry have been met with enthusiasm, there is still relatively little information on how to practically facilitate this integration. In this Personal View, we argue that phenomenological approaches need a shared semantic framework to drive their innovative potential, thus enabling consistent data capture, exchange, and interoperability with current mental health data and informatics approaches (eg, the Research Domain Criteria project). We show how an applied ontology of phenomenological psychopathology offers a suitable method to address these challenges.

人们再次呼吁在精神病学中使用现象学来提高有关精神健康状况的因果关系、诊断和治疗的知识。现象学方法旨在阐明心理健康的主观体验，其倡导者声称，当前的精神病学诊断框架（例如，DSM-5）在很大程度上忽略了这一点。忽略丰富的现象学信息的后果是对理论发展、实证研究和护理计划的限制相对更加严格。尽管人们对精神病学中更多现象学的呼吁得到了热烈的满足，但关于如何实际促进这种整合的信息仍然相对较少。在这个个人观点中，我们认为现象学方法需要一个共享的语义框架来驱动它们的创新潜力，从而能够与当前的心理健康数据和信息学方法（例如，研究领域标准项目）保持一致的数据捕获、交换和互操作性。我们展示了现象学精神病理学的应用本体论如何提供一种合适的方法来应对这些挑战。