Biocultural psychopathology as a new epistemology for mental disorders

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ID19445667
AuthorsCaio Maximino (0000-0002-3261-9196, Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume34
Issue3
Pages262-272
Publication date2023-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory of Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0957-154X • E-ISSN: 1740-2360
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0957154x231168080
PMID37144654
OpenAlexW4372295699
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited40

Psychopathology has been criticized for decades for its reliance on a brain-centred and over-reductionist approach which views mental disorders as disease-like natural kinds. While criticisms of brain-centred psychopathologies abound, these criticisms sometimes ignore important advances in the neurosciences which view the brain as embodied, embedded, extended and enactive, and as fundamentally plastic. A new onto-epistemology for mental disorders is proposed, focusing on a biocultural model, in which human brains are understood as embodied and embedded in ecosocial niches, and with which individuals enact particular transactions characterized by circular causality. In this approach, neurobiological bases are inseparable from interpersonal and socio-cultural factors. This approach leads to methodological changes in how mental disorders are studied and dealt with

Cognitive science · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Interpersonal communication · Mental health · Mental illness · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Psychotherapist · Reductionism · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Social Psychology

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