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For the sake of humanism, psychic disorders have gradually been considered diseases. As a result, patients with the condition retain their dignity in healthcare institutions. However, a recent trend—encouraged by the development of atheoretical psychiatry—eliminates any psychodynamic perspective, instead seeing psychiatry as a branch of internal medicine, one that deals with diseases of the brain. This perspective, no doubt interesting from an epidemiological and statistical point of view, shows its limitations in the implementation of personalized treatments because the intersubjective link is then at the forefront. The psychiatric symptom is specific because it is always addressed to others and cannot be reduced to the medical lesion model.