Intentional content in psychopathologies requires an expanded interpretivism

Authors
Publication date 2019
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Article number e26
Volume | Issue number 42
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
Abstract

We argue that the explanatory role of intentional content in connecting symptoms in a network approach to psychopathology hinges neither on causality nor on rationality. Instead, we argue that it hinges on a pluralistic body of practical and clinical know-how. Incorporating this practical approach to intentional state ascription in psychopathological cases expands and improves traditional interpretivism.

Document type Comment/Letter to the editor
Note Commentary to: D. Borsboom, A.O.J. Cramer, A. Kalis (2019) Brain disorders? Not really: Why network structures block reductionism in psychopathology research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 42, e2.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18001176
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85063898649
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