Genetics, neuroscience and psychiatric classification.

Abstract excerpt

Some psychiatrists anticipate a revolution in psychiatric nosology, on the basis of emerging data from genetics and genomics. There are, however, good empirical and conceptual reasons to resist any such revolution. Basing an understanding of psychiatric entities on one of multiple biological (not to mention sociocultural and psychological) considerations is a specious method of approaching the project of...

Topics

• Diagnosis, Differential
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Humans
• Mental Disorders
• Neurosciences
• Psychiatry