Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes
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چکیده
Despite decades of clinical, sociopolitical, and research efforts, progress in understanding treating mental health problems remains disappointing. I discuss two barriers that have contributed to a problematic oversimplification illness. The first is diagnostic literalism, mistaking (complex within-person processes) for the diagnoses by which they are classified (clinically useful idealizations facilitate treatment selection prognosis). second reductionism, isolated study individual elements disorders. propose conceptualizing people’s states as outcomes emerging from complex systems biological, psychological, social show this perspective explains many robust phenomena, including variability within diagnoses, comorbidity among transdiagnostic risk factors. It helps us understand reductionism epistemological tools describing world, rather than ontological convictions about how world is. provides new lenses through illness (e.g., attractor states, phase transitions), levers treat them early warning signals, novel targets). Embracing complexity requires opening our ivory towers theories methods other fields with rich traditions, network sciences.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Directions in Psychological Science
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0963-7214', '1467-8721']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221114089