In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

Borsboom et al.'s formulation provides an opportunity for a fundamental rethink about the
“brain disease model” of addiction that dominates research, treatment, policy, and lay …

This paper results from a critical literature overview on systems theory and socio-technical
engineering. It has allowed exploring a vast interdisciplinary domain along an …

Neurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers
of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related …

We address the commentaries on our target article in terms of four major themes. First, we
note that virtually all commentators agree that mental disorders are not brain disorders in the …

Brain disorders? Not really: Why network structures block reductionism in psychopathology
research Page 1 Behavioral and Brain Sciences cambridge.org/bbs Target Article Cite this …

The thesis of multiple realisation that Borsboom & al. are relying on should not be taken for
granted. By dissolving the apparent multiple realisation, the reductionist research strategies …

Symptom network models (SNWMs) play an important role in identifying but not explaining
patterns of symptoms. We discuss underlying assumptions of SNWMs and argue that they …

A network structure explains why reductionism is not possible for mental illness, but the
same argument applies for the somatic symptoms of functional disorders. Because the …

Today there is a gap between a presence of manifold new equipment on the market which
provides streams of various digital data about the environment, in particular in the form of …