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" ... the only way to develop better treatments for mental illness
could be to scrap the category approach and go back to the drawing
board. A different strategy would be to assume that the causes of
mental illness are not divided according to the categories of the
DSM, but spread much more evenly through the population. The symptoms
that emerge do so only when the causative agent - - genes,
environment, misfiring brain circuitry, whatever - - reach a certain
threshold. Diagnosis then becomes a matter of tuning into the correct
signal, rather than blindly punching clunky buttons until it crude
approximation of a picture emerges (p 275). Because signs of
subclinical psychosis are everywhere at subclinical levels in the
general population (p 277) and a dimensional approach will give more
useful results.
The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam, Crichton, 2014
(I enjoyed the author's style, content, stories. Recommended. Sylvia)
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