My talk is about psychiatric explanation, intended as explanation of ideal syndromes, like Anorexia nervosa or Narcissistic personality disorder. I argue that it should feature three levels, a descriptive-phenomenological what-level, a how-level where a dysfunction is abstractly described as the breakdown of one or more mechanisms, and a where-level in which the mechanisms and their dysfunctions are located in brain areas
Lalumera, E. (2016). Psychiatric disorders and levels of explanation. In Mind the Gap: Brain, Cognition and Society - 13th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (pp.65-65). Università di Torino.
Psychiatric disorders and levels of explanation
LALUMERA, ELISABETTA
Primo
2016
Abstract
My talk is about psychiatric explanation, intended as explanation of ideal syndromes, like Anorexia nervosa or Narcissistic personality disorder. I argue that it should feature three levels, a descriptive-phenomenological what-level, a how-level where a dysfunction is abstractly described as the breakdown of one or more mechanisms, and a where-level in which the mechanisms and their dysfunctions are located in brain areas
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