AI Article Synopsis
- Network models can challenge the oversimplified view (reductionism) of psychiatric disorders, but only if we see them as truly representing those disorders.
- To better grasp the complexity and diversity of psychiatric conditions, we should adopt a more flexible and practical approach to interpreting these models.
- This means using models as tools for understanding rather than as definitive representations of what psychiatric disorders actually are.
Article Abstract
Network models block reductionism about psychiatric disorders only if models are interpreted in a realist manner - that is, taken to represent "what psychiatric disorders really are." A flexible and more instrumentalist view of models is needed to improve our understanding of the heterogeneity and multifactorial character of psychiatric disorders.
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