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28 - Introduction

from Section 10

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2020

By
Peter Zachar
Edited by
Kenneth S. Kendler ,
Josef Parnas  and
Peter Zachar
Kenneth S. Kendler
Affiliation:
Virginia Commonwealth University
Josef Parnas
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen
Peter Zachar
Affiliation:
Auburn University, Montgomery
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Summary

Several chapters in this volume address the heterogeneity problem in psychiatric classification, i.e., that constructs such as major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder have turned out to be too coarse-grained to support the discovery of underlying mechanisms or to guide clinicians in selecting disorder-specific treatments (Bilder Chapter 5, Miller Chapter 20, although see Bechtel Chapter 2 for a different view on mechanisms and heterogeneity). Bringing a more statistical perspective to the heterogeneity issue, Jan-Willem Romeijn and Hanna M. van Loo refer to this as the reference class problem.

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Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
 , pp. 345 - 348
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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