RDoC, Psychopathology, and Naturalism
What’s New Is What’s Old
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9022146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas Porter (Algiers Behavioral Health Center, New Orleans, LA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-25 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022167818778663 |
| OpenAlex | W2806753813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
The Research Domain Criteria project, although innovative, remains thoroughly grounded in a naturalist conception of psychopathology. Exploring the meaning of psychopathology with reference to social categories such as race and gender makes it apparent that, by taking this naturalist approach, Research Domain Criteria runs the risk of treating contingent social norms as immutable facts of nature. The political impact of this approach is inherently conservative as it perpetuates the status quo, even if the status quo entails discrimination. These political effects are not an inevitable outcome of the application of neuroscience to the study of psychopathology. Exploring the implications of neuroplasticity demonstrates that maintaining rigid dichotomies between the biological and the social is untenable. Accordingly, taking a neuroscience approach to psychopathology actually reveals the significance of social science, phenomenological, and narrative-based approaches to research and ultimately points toward the ethical significance of service user participation in the science of nosology
Epistemology · Naturalism · Political science · Politics · Psychopathology · Research Domain Criteria · Sociology · Status quo · Clinical Psychology · Empathy and Medical Education · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Sex Differences in Social Behavior
Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)
Establishment of Diagnostic Validity in Psychiatric Illness
Distinguishing Between the Validity and Utility of Psychiatric Diagnoses
The Disability Studies Reader
Epistemic Injustice and Illness
Gender
Adolescent perceptions of indirect forms of relational aggression
Health as a Theoretical Concept
How Kraepelinian was Kraepelin? How Kraepelinian are the neo-Kraepelinians? - from Emil Kraepelin to DSM-III
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |