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Beyond trait reductionism: Implications of network structures for dimensional models of psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Robert F. Bornstein
Robert F. Bornstein*
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Department of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530. bornstein@adelphi.eduhttp://www.adelphi.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?PID=0366
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Abstract

Borsboom et al. discuss the implications of network structures for neurobiology-based reductionism, but inherent in the network approach is that dimensional models of psychopathology are untenable as well. Insofar as mental disorders are complex dynamic constellations of symptoms, the “trait reductionism” of dimensional psychopathology frameworks suffers from the same limitations as neurobiological reductionism.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e4
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