" ... 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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