Psychiatry - Science topic

Key Takeaways • Psychiatry has evolved from behaviorism to cognitive neuroscience, yet lacks consensus, creating a crisis in the field. • Di Nicola emphasizes a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach, integrating philosophy, poetry, and social sciences into psychiatry. • Relational therapy and addressing mental, relational, and social suffering ar...

Tushe M, Karagjozi D. The Commonalities and Specificities of Nursing Care in Mental Health for Children, Adolescents, and Adults in Psychiatry. Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. 2025 8(1). This study highlights the most common manifestations of spiritual and emotional states among a specific group of students and teacher...

Lower- extremity constraint-induced movement therapy (LE-CIMT) has proven effective in overcoming physical disabilities. Participating in the LE-CIMT requires some independent walking ability without aids that indicates a higher level of motor function than for the entire stroke population. However, only few studies evaluated health-related quality...

Mental health disorders affect millions worldwide, yet our understanding of their underlying mechanisms remains limited, impeding the development of precise and effective treatments. Computational psychiatry, a burgeoning field at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and computational modelling, seeks to bridge this gap. By employing compu...

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Introduction Cognitive symptoms contribute to the worsening of functionality in people with schizophrenia. The objective of this study was to explore the current knowledge about cognitive symptoms (relevance, evaluation, and management) of psychiatrists and primary care physicians (PCPs) involved in the care of patients with schizophrenia in Spain....

Although Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, as well as Edwin Bidell Wilson, was not able to comprehend the highly technical mathematical and logical presentation made by Keynes ,which was provided in Part II of the A Treatise on Probability ,about Boole’s upper and lower bounded probabilities, Edgeworth was still able to grasp in 1922 that Keynes’s theory o...

Most people seek to establish romantic or intimate relationships in life, including people with mental health problems. However, this has been a neglected topic in mental health practice and research. This study aimed to investigate views of mental health and social care staff about the appropriateness of helping service users with romantic relatio...

This paper explores the advancements and applications of language models in healthcare, focusing on their clinical use cases. It examines the evolution from early encoder-based systems requiring extensive fine-tuning to state-of-the-art large language and multimodal models capable of integrating text and visual data through in-context learning. The...

Aim The coded prevalence of complex mental health difficulties in electronic health records, such as personality disorder and dysthymia,is much lower than expected from population surveys. We aimed to identify features in primary care records that might be useful in promoting greater recognition of complex mental health difficulties. Methods and F...

Multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of multiple chronic diseases, represents a significant challenge in healthcare, necessitating advanced analytical methods for a better understanding. Although numerous studies focus on characterizing chronicity profiles across different population groups, there is still a need to identify specific diseases that pla...

Retracted misinformation often continues to influence event-related reasoning, but there is mixed evidence that it influences person impressions. A recent study found no evidence for the continued influence of retracted misinformation on person impressions across four experiments. However, the study used a dynamic impression-rating measure that may...

The World Health Organization advocates for the regulating of mental health accommodation services to ensure that they use a person-centered approach and promote human rights. However, many low-middle-income countries still face challenges that prevent them from delivering services according to such regulations. In this study, we explore the experi...

Introduction: Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects a diverse group of patients, but the underlying causes of the symptoms can vary. There is currently a lot of research being done on the use of biomarkers in the diagnosis of schizophrenia, including neuron-specific enolase (NSE). The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare NSE conce...

The COVID-19 pandemic and related measures to control the spread of the virus have negatively impacted adolescent mental health. However, the pandemic may have been more consequential for the mental health of some adolescents than others. Little is known about the heterogeneity in mental health responses to the pandemic among adolescents. This stud...

This study investigates the relationships between perceived school climate (PSC) and negative emotions (NEE) in adolescents, incorporating the mediating roles of social avoidance and distress (SAD) and psychological resilience (PSR) and examining the moderating influence of physical exercise level (PEL). Data were collected from 1,507 students in g...

Background: Hypoactive delirium may go unrecognized unless routinely screened. At present, there is no valid screening tool for delirium in the Turkish language. This study was conducted to translate the Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium (CAPD) into Turkish and to evaluate its validity and reliability. Methods: In this is validation study, C...

We designed and implemented a multimodal training program for clinicians in how to deliver spiritual psychotherapy for inpatient, residential, and inpatient treatment (SPIRIT), a group-based, spiritually integrated psychotherapy for acute psychiatric settings. The overall goals for this project were to facilitate competency in spiritually integrate...

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a serious adverse drug reaction associated with antipsychotic medications. The cause is dopamine blockade caused by these drugs. We are presenting the case report of a 25-year old male patient, who presented to our psychiatry emergency facility, with post-ictal behavioural disturbances. He required rapid tranquiliz...

Background The Eight-Item Informant Interview to Differentiate Aging and Dementia (AD8) was developed as a screening tool for dementia, with a cutoff score of 2 suggested by the initial study. However, various studies have reported different cutoff values, and many have found that a cutoff of 2 may result in a high false positive rate. Furthermore,...

Opening talk, wicked problems in the environment and psychiatry

Interview with Josh Richardson for Awais Aftab's blog, "Psychiatry at the Margins." https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/emil-du-bois-reymond-and-ignorance

E n un encuentro de psiquiatría dedicado a tratar la conducta suicida, hablar de la aparición de la conciencia de la muerte tiene todo el sentido del mundo. Para terminar de forma voluntaria con la vida propia es necesario, por supuesto, ser cons-ciente de lo que significa estar vivo. Pero ese conocimiento no sólo lo poseemos sino que podríamos dec...

Introduction: Ketamine has garnered attention for its rapid efficacy in alleviating depressive symptoms in treatment-resistant depression, offering a novel mechanism as a non-monoaminergic agent. Despite its potential, limited research has explored mental health professionals’ perspectives on its use. This study assesses the attitudes, knowledge, a...

Previous studies have suggested a potential connection between schizophrenia (SCZ) and sleep and eating disorders. However, these studies have not sufficiently accounted for potential confounding factors, leaving the true causal relationship unclear. Understanding this causal link is essential for developing effective prevention and treatment strat...

This article examines ethnic bias in predictive algorithms and decision-making systems within precision psychiatry. While these models aim to provide individualised outcomes and improve healthcare, they often perpetuate historical biases present in training datasets. Factors such as historical disparities, poor access to care, and ethnic under-repr...

Schools have become a primary context for assessing and addressing social, emotional, and behavioral difficulties in response to the youth mental health crisis. However, traditional paper-based assessments are often hindered by time constraints and rater bias, limiting their effectiveness for early identification and intervention. Technology-mediat...

Resumen El artículo analiza el mural realizado por Fernando Oreste Nannetti en el Hospital Psiquiátrico de Volterra (Italia), durante su ingreso entre 1958 y 1973. Para ello, el texto se estructura en siete apartados, incluyendo la introducción y las consideraciones finales, que estructuran las líneas principales: el segundo y el tercero se destina...

Modellierung wird als eines der wirksamsten Werkzeuge der Wissenschaft betrachtet, um die Realität zu interpretieren, vorherzusagen und zu strukturieren. In der Psychiatrie steht die Modellierung jedoch vor einer der größten Herausforderungen: Der menschliche Geist ist kein lineares System und kann nicht ohne Weiteres auf mathematische Gleichungen...

Risk assessment in psychiatry is a critical process used to evaluate an individual's potential for harmful behaviours such as violence, self-harm, or recidivism. This paper comprehensively reviews recent advances in risk assessment from general psychiatric and forensic perspectives. We outline the conceptual foundations of risk assessment, includin...

Die wissenschaftliche Methode fußt auf der Konstruktion von Modellen, deren Ziel die Zerlegung der komplexen Realität in überschaubare Formen ist. Dies verhilft zu einem verständlicheren und vorhersehbareren Verständnis der Realität. In der Psychiatrie kommt der Modellierung eine doppelte Bedeutung zu. Zunächst sei festgehalten, dass sie der Formal...

Modelling is recognised as one of the most efficacious tools at the disposal of the scientific community for the interpretation, prediction and structuring of reality. In the field of psychiatry, however, modelling faces one of the most significant challenges: the human mind does not function as a linear system, and it is not readily reducible to a...

Technological advances are shifting the landscape of healthcare provision, and mental healthcare is no exception. Whilst technology can improve patient care, it is vital that consideration is given to the perspectives of staff and patients about its implementation in real-world contexts. As mental health service survivors, we therefore welcome Dewa...

The British were involved in the act of passing laws during their reign in colonial India. According to the laws passed in England, a lunatic was described as a person who had lost the use of reason either from grief or any other accident. England was already going through a practice of establishing asylums for the lunatics since the eighteenth cen...

A global pandemic is a hardly typical and anxiety-dampening event. Research in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic tells of associations between advancing age and anxiety dampening. The aim of this study was to further investigate this by examining and creating a blueprint of older Canadians’ symptoms of pandemic-related anxiety and coping stra...

Background: Premature ejaculation (PE) is a common sexual disorder in male that negatively impacts their quality of life (QoL). The study aimed to evaluate the association of QoL with its four domains among patients with PE. Methods: It was a cross-sectional study conducted from November 2021 to October 2022 among patients above 18 years of age who...

1. La administración de la herencia determinista de von Liszt. 1. Franz von Liszt creó la Política criminal como disciplina científica, concibiéndola como el conjunto de criterios determinantes de una lucha "eficaz" contra el delito. Su punto de partida, como es sabido, era una concepción determinista del hombre, una visión del delito como reflejo...

Identifying physiological and behavioral markers for mental health conditions is a longstanding challenge in psychiatry. Depression and suicidal ideation, in particular, lack objective biomarkers, with screening and diagnosis primarily relying on self-reports and clinical interviews. Here, we investigate eye tracking as a potential marker modality...

U radu će se opisati različite intervencije koje se koriste u zaštiti duševnog zdravlja djece i adolescenata. Za razliku od promotivnih i preventivnih intervencija prioritet za dječjeg psihijatra će imati terapijske intervencije, kao i sprječavanje nepovoljnog tijeka psihičkih poremećaja. U današnje vrijeme su u dječjoj psihijatriji visoko razvijen...

Introduction Insomnia is prevalent, particularly among individuals with mental health complaints. However, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), the first-line treatment, is underutilized in care settings. This study evaluated a therapist-guided digital CBT-I (i-Sleep), gathering insights from participants and therapists to optimize th...

This article seeks to formulate a situated approach to mental disorder that overcomes some of the problems of contemporary diagnostic psychiatry. A framework is needed that aims to integrate neuroscientific knowledge about the brain and other aspects of the person with knowledge about the environment. Inspired by the work of researchers such as Tho...

Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) often face challenges in obtaining and maintaining employment, resulting in low occupational rates. The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) program has been proven effective in promoting employment for people with SMI. However, its implementation in low-resource settings is limited. This study aims to...

Este ensaio aborda a importância do prazer, na vida e para a vida, na visão de autores de diferentes correntes psicológicas – psicanálise, bioenergética e neurociência. Afirma que, na aplicação da musicoterapia em psiquiatria, a linguagem musical permite a comunicação entre pessoas típicas e pessoas com diagnóstico de esquizofrenia, o que foi compr...

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a serious adverse drug reaction associated with antipsychotic medications. The cause is dopamine blockade caused by these drugs. We are presenting the case report of a 25-year old male patient, who presented to our psychiatry emergency facility, with post-ictal behavioural disturbances. He required rapid tranquiliz...

A esquizofrenia é um transtorno psiquiátrico crônico e grave, que demanda tratamento contínuo com antipsicóticos, os quais, apesar de eficazes no controle dos sintomas, estão associados a diversos efeitos metabólicos adversos. Dentre esses efeitos, destaca-se o risco aumentado para o desenvolvimento de diabetes mellitus tipo 2. Esta pesquisa teve c...

One of the foundational tenets of evolutionary psychology, the modular view of the mind, offers promising applications for clinical psychiatry. This perspective conceptualizes the mind as a collection of specialized information-processing modules, shaped by natural selection to address adaptive challenges faced by our ancestors. In this paper, we p...

Modern humans face numerous complex life issues such as sadness, confusion, suffering, existential emptiness, stress, depression, and suicide. They strive to eliminate these problems from their lives, leading many to seek help from specialists to address their mental health concerns. Consequently, they often resort to various medications prescribed...

Understanding the causal mechanisms underlying the development of mental disorders and their symptoms is essential for advancing effective prevention and treatment strategies. However, research in this field has predominantly relied on sufficiency logic within a probabilistic framework, coupled with traditional statistical methods (i.e., multiple l...

Specific learning disorder (SLD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties in reading, writing and math skills. Saccadic eye movements play a critical role in fluent reading and visual scanning. 40 children with dyslexia and 40 healthy controls were included in this study according to DSM-5 criteria, since children with dyslexi...

In der Psychiatrie stellt die Entstehung psychischer Erkrankungen ein zentrales und anhaltend kontroverses Thema dar, insbesondere der Prozess, durch den das Gehirn-Geist-System beeinträchtigt wird und letztlich zum Wahnsinn führt. Der vorliegende Artikel präsentiert eine mögliche Pathogenesehypothese, die besagt, dass eine Überfunktion des Gehirns...

In the annals of psychiatry, a seminal and persistently controversial issue pertains to the genesis of mental illness, particularly the process by which the mind-brain system becomes afflicted, ultimately resulting in madness. This paper will outline one of the possible pathogenic hypotheses where the "overfunctioning" of the mind is linked to an i...

Der Text untersucht eine mögliche pathogenetische Hypothese für psychische Erkrankungen. Sie legt nahe, dass eine Überfunktion des Gehirns einen Entzündungsprozess auslösen kann, der zu einer Dysfunktion der Hirnrinde führt. Der Zusammenhang zwischen repetitiver mentaler Aktivierung, Grübeln und Zwängen und neurochemischen Veränderungen, insbesonde...

Objectives Limited attention in prior work has been placed on delivery of mental health care to patients with orthopaedic trauma. The purpose of this project was to describe current attitudes regarding the importance of mental healthcare and assess the availability of mental health resources for patients with orthopaedic trauma. Methods A 16-item...

Home page teaser: Breaking with the pasta history of the manifesto Column: Second Thoughts Link: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-manifesto-in-the-21st-century-from-art-to-politics-to-the-psy-disciplines-part-1 Key Takeaways: * Manifestos serve as powerful tools for challenging norms and advocating change across art, politics, and psy...

Recent changes in US government priorities have serious negative implications for science that will compromise the integrity of mental health research, which focuses on vulnerable populations. Therefore, as editors of mental science journals and custodians of the academic record, we confirm with conviction our collective commitment to communicating...

Introduction Suicide is a global public health issue necessitating evidence-based prevention strategies. Many individuals who die by suicide have had prior contact with healthcare services. Nearly half visit a primary care provider within a month before their death, and many visit emergency departments (EDs) frequently. Effective risk assessment in...

Objective During the COVID-19 pandemic, telemental health (TMH) use rapidly increased. Though patients report satisfaction with TMH, acceptability among different psychiatric providers (inpatient, outpatient, nurses) and for various diagnoses is less understood. This study aimed to expand understanding by examining TMH acceptability, benefits, and...

This study investigates how polygenic scores (PGS) for neurodevelopmental conditions such as ASD and ADHD relate to the initiation and trajectory of psychiatric treatment during childhood and adolescence. Using data from the Generation R cohort, the project links genomic data with longitudinal pharmacy records and behavioral assessments to explore...

Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists provide important expert opinions in legal settings; however, dated studies indicate a preference for psychiatrists among legal professionals. Furthermore, issues caused by increased competency to stand trial (CST) evaluations are heightened by restrictions on psychologists’ ability to complete these evaluat...

Fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive academic environment to drive scientific innovation is paramount. However, historically underrepresented individuals continue to encounter significant barriers to advancing careers in neuroscience. We define diversity here as the wide range of human differences, that include among others: Race, ethnicit...

Bu makalede, metin madenciliği yöntemlerinden biri olan konu modellemesi analizi tanıtılarak bunun psikolojik danışma ve rehberlik alanında kullanımı ele alınmıştır. Konu modelleme, metin belgesinin temel anlamsal yapısının belirlenmesine ve yapılandırılmamış veri yapılarından anlamlı bilgiler çıkarmaya yarayan denetimsiz makine öğrenme algoritmala...

Patients who have experienced an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are at increased risk of developing depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the long term. However, whether these psychiatric comorbidities are preceded by early psychological symptoms appearing within the first days after AMI remains unclear. This study provides the...

Abstract Purpose: To study the effect of wellness recovery action plan program on depressive symptoms of older persons with major depressive disorder in community Design: Quasi-experimental research Methods: The sample was older persons with major depressive disorder in community, both females and males aged 60 years and over who were diagnosed...

Introduction and purpose of the study: Schizophrenia and recurrent depressive disorder are important mental disorders worthy of special interest in both the fields of psychiatry and neuroradiology. The studies presented in the following paper have made it possible to see a correlation between specific symptoms specific to the aforementioned disease...

Objective This study investigates the relationship between screen time, screen content, and the risk of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) using data from a large sample. Specifically, it examines how different types of screen content (such as educational videos, cartoon videos, and interactive videos) are associated with the risk of A...

Objective This study aimed to investigate the mediating effect of attachment on the relationship between Panic Dısorder (PD) and Adult Separation Anxiety Disorder (ASAD). Methods 76 patients with PD, who consecutively applied to the Psychiatry outpatient clinic of Rize Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University Training and Research Hospital between 1 April...

Alena Marešová patří mezi významné postavy české kriminologie a penologie s rozsáhlou publikační činností. Jako vystudovaná forenzní psycholožka nastoupila do Výzkumného ústavu penologického (VÚP), kde se zabývala výzkumem zejména mladistvých odsouzených a další odbornou činností až do zrušení ústavu. Následně pracovala na oddělení penologického vý...

Background/Objectives: Precision medicine is not just hype. Instead, it represents a high bar for developing more effective, safer, and better-tolerated therapies in medicine, without exception in psychiatry, including bipolar disorder (BD). A burgeoning body of narrative reviews and perspective papers has already appraised the boundaries of precis...

The concept of concurrent mental health and substance use (MHSU) status and its detection in patients has garnered growing interest among psychiatrists and healthcare policymakers over the past four decades. Researchers have proposed various diagnostic methods, including the Data-Driven Diagnostic Method (DDDM), for the identification of MHSU. Howe...

Our findings provide that an interactive 120-minute introductory curriculum is feasible and significantly enhances psychiatry residents' knowledge and confidence in foundational sports psychiatry topics. Psychiatry residents in our sample had minimal baseline knowledge in sports psychiatry, and this introductory session significantly enhanced their...

Introduction Dementia and hearing loss pose a substantial global health challenge, and understanding their association is crucial. This study aims to determine the prevalence of hearing loss in dementia patients and investigate the risk factors for dementia severity including hearing loss. Methods This study was a cross-sectional study. Patients w...

The German psychiatrist Paul Julius Möbius began to use the term Pathographie in a new sense: a psychiatric biography of a historical figure that focuses on their pathological aspects. Byōseki, which originated from Möbius's Pathographie, refers to a uniquely Japanese practice that explores the relationship between creativity and psychopathology. I...

Background and aim: The practice of restraint raises a wide range of issues, including technical, clinical, organizational, deontological, ethical, legal, and medico-legal concerns. Clinical practice and numerous studies on the subject suggest that, in general, physical restraint is not effective for the main reasons it is applied. This study aimed...

How do psychiatrists arrive at their diagnostic conclusions? Though several philosophers of psychiatry have proposed how to understand psychiatric diagnostic reasoning over the last decade, this essential question of the epistemology of psychiatric practice has received little attention. This article introduces the reader to this topic, its importa...

Adolescent depressive symptoms represent a significant public health concern, with negative life events and dysfunctional attitudes playing pivotal roles in their development. A cross-sectional study by Yu et al assessed the interplay between dysfunctional attitudes, social support, and depressive symptoms in 795 Chinese adolescents (49.9% male, me...

Depression has been linked to cortico-limbic brain regions, and ketamine is known for its rapid antidepressant effects. However, how these brain regions encode depression collaboratively and how ketamine regulates these regions to exert its prompt antidepressant effects through mesoscale brain-wide fluctuations remain elusive. In this study, we use...

El cambio climático es una de las mayores amenazas globales del siglo XXI, con impactos significativos en la salud mental. Esta revisión analiza su relación con trastornos como ecoansiedad, estrés postraumático y depresión, destacando su efecto según edad, género y ubicación geográfica. Los jóvenes presentan mayor ecoansiedad por la incertidumbre f...

El cambio climático es una de las mayores amenazas globales del siglo XXI, con impactos significativos en la salud mental. Esta revisión analiza su relación con trastornos como ecoansiedad, estrés postraumático y depresión, destacando su efecto según edad, género y ubicación geográfica. Los jóvenes presentan mayor ecoansiedad por la incertidumbre f...

Depression, anxiety, and stress have surged worldwide, including in Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to assess the mental health condition of the Bangladeshi population during this pandemic. A cross-sectional study was carried out online between Feb 17, 2021, and Apr 8, 2021, during the lockdown period in Bangladesh with st...

Background Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder with both motor and non-motor symptoms (NMS), the latter having a profound impact on patients’ quality of life (QoL). Increased recognition of NMS underscores the need for comprehensive approaches. The study aimed to evaluate healthcare professionals’ awareness and manageme...

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Outdoor recreation provided a crucial way to maintain physical activity, reduce stress, and preserve a sense of normalcy during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study assessed the relationship between outdoor recreation and mental health in the context of COVID-19. Cross-sectional online survey data were collected in early 2021 from a sample (n = 503) r...

Background Environmental events, including military conflicts, may dramatically affect a hospital’s ability to provide routine treatments while maintaining reasonable waiting times. Objective To examine the impact of a military conflict (“Protective Edge”, PE) on the volume of activity and waiting times for outpatient clinics in a tertiary medical...

Background: As mental health disorders continue to surge, exceeding the capacity of available therapeutic resources, the emergence of technologies enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising solutions for supporting and delivering patient care. However, there is limited research on mental health practitioners’ understanding, familiarit...

Background Current empirical understanding of the relationship between psychopathology and terrorist behaviours in women is limited, because most research focuses on male perpetrators and relies on secondary sources. Addressing this gap is crucial, particularly given previous research that highlights significant differences in mental health problem...

Most investigators in precision psychiatry force models to predict clinically meaningful but ultimately predefined outcomes in a high-risk population. We instead advocate for an alternative approach: let the data reveal which symptoms are predictable with high accuracy and then assess whether those predictable symptoms warrant early intervention. W...

Psychiatry is undergoing a shift toward precision medicine, demanding personalized approaches that capture the complexity of cognition and behavior. Here, we introduce a novel referential of four robust, replicable, and generalizable cognitive and behavioral profiles. These were derived from the most prominent pediatric cohort (n=10,843) and valida...

Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by abnormalities of movement, communication, and behavior, often accompanied by a disturbance of mood, thought and perception. If untreated, it may lead to serious complications, including death. Although often described in adults with schizophrenia and severe mood disorders, it can also occur...

Background International organisations recommend that patients with CHD undergo a structured transition process to prepare for lifelong cardiac care. However, there is a limited understanding of current transition practices in the United States (U.S.) from the perspective of adult CHD programs. The purpose of this study was to characterise adult CH...

Background In a previous study, we demonstrated that military aircraft noise increases the short-term probability of on-demand drug administrations in patients in a psychiatric clinic located in close proximity to a military airfield. The aim of this article was to: (1) apply refined exposure assessment methods; (2) compare results for various nois...

This study aimed to understand the status of psychotropic medication use among autistic individuals and how South Korean parents perceive its effects and the associated communication processes. This study involved three research questions investigating the following: general prescription trends of psychotropic medication use among autistic individu...

In this opinion article, we discuss the application of critical realism as an alternative model to the biopsychosocial model in the understanding of psychiatric disorders. Critical realism presents a stratified view of reality and recognises mental disorders as emergent phenomena; that is, their full explanation cannot be reduced to explanations at...