Are Mental Disorders Natural Kinds?: A Plea for a New Approach to Intervention in Psychiatry. Tekin, Ş. Philos. Psychiatr. Psychol., 23(2):147--163, 2016. 00001
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Both proponents and opponents of the claim that mental disorders are natural kinds compare mental disorders to paradigmatic examples of natural kinds, to inquire into a set of properties that achieve three scientific tasks: explanation, prediction, and intervention. I argue that the comparative strategy fails to take us to any intervention-related properties of mental disorders. I replace it with what I call a trilateral strategy—a strategy guided by first-person accounts of individuals with mental disorders, and the relevant clinical and scientific work on psychopathology. I illustrate how the trilateral strategy works with a focus on schizophrenia—an example used by both sides of the debate.
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	title = {Are {Mental} {Disorders} {Natural} {Kinds}?: {A} {Plea} for a {New} {Approach} to {Intervention} in {Psychiatry}},
	volume = {23},
	issn = {1071-6076},
	url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/638291},
	doi = {10.1353/ppp.2016.0013},
	abstract = {Both proponents and opponents of the claim that mental disorders are
natural kinds compare mental disorders to paradigmatic examples of natural
kinds, to inquire into a set of properties that achieve three scientific
tasks: explanation, prediction, and intervention. I argue that the
comparative strategy fails to take us to any intervention-related
properties of mental disorders. I replace it with what I call a trilateral
strategy—a strategy guided by first-person accounts of individuals with
mental disorders, and the relevant clinical and scientific work on
psychopathology. I illustrate how the trilateral strategy works with a
focus on schizophrenia—an example used by both sides of the debate.},
	number = {2},
	urldate = {2017-11-15},
	journal = {Philos. Psychiatr. Psychol.},
	author = {Tekin, Şerife},
	year = {2016},
	note = {00001},
	keywords = {Sep 20 import, duplicate},
	pages = {147--163}
}

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