Reductionist Fallacies in the Theory and Treatment of Mental Disorders

作者: Petr Skrabanek

DOI: 10.1080/00207411.1990.11449167

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摘要: The vagueness of the concept mental diseases and elaborate biochemical theories their etiology present a strange contrast. It is as if exact betting odds were calculated for game with unknown rules. Much theorizing research would seem to be an attempt lend respectability empirical treatments based on simplistic notion that disease caused by "something in blood" or food":

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