Symptoms are not the solution but the problem: Why psychiatric research should focus on processes rather than symptoms. (2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Elbau, Immanuel G.; Binder, Elisabeth B.; Spoormaker, Victor I.
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 42(2019)
• Publication Date: 2019
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18001000
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: Progress in psychiatric research has been hindered by the use of artificial disease categories to map distinct biological substrates. Efforts to overcome this obstacle have led to the misconception that relevant psychiatric dimensions are not biologically reducible. Consequently, the return to phenomenology is once again advocated. We propose a process- centered paradigm of biological reduction compatible with non-reductive materialism.