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Sullivan, Jacqueline (2016) Medical Models of Mental Illness. [Preprint]

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This chapter has two aims. The first aim is to compare and contrast three different conceptual-explanatory models for thinking about mental illness with an eye towards identifying the assumptions upon which each model is based, and exploring the model’s advantages and limitations in clinical contexts. Major Depressive Disorder is used as an example to illustrate these points. The second aim is to address the question of what conceptual-theoretical framework for thinking about mental illness is most likely to facilitate the discovery of causes and treatments of mental illness in research contexts. To this end, the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project is briefly considered.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Sullivan, Jacquelinejsulli29@uwo.ca
Keywords: biopsychosocial model DSM folk psychology medical model mental illness RDoC
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Specific Sciences > Medicine
Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry
Depositing User: Jacqueline Sullivan
Date Deposited: 05 Mar 2016 19:34
Last Modified: 09 Apr 2019 04:02
Item ID: 11951
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Specific Sciences > Medicine
Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry
Date: 5 March 2016
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11951

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