Jorge L Blight 1 wrote in 1978 that "All science is sooner or later their own critical epistemological and this is what is beginning to happen in the field of psychology and psychiatry . "However, in those years was self-criticism rather" cosmetic ", as was the anti-psychiatry stance, ie, was really led to concepts underlying the definitions of mental illness. "For example, the dying exclusion of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses, completely removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual until 1987 (date of publication of DSM III-R). ; The object of study of psychology and psychiatry at the moment was not contended. But he said Blight bluntly: "I think today must proclaim openly: we use the approach and the model we use, the object of psychology (and all its branches) is now the" soul "," mind, "the psyche "but the behavior of the organism while observable." To overcome the implicit physicalism supplemented this definition by adding: " Psychology is the science of behavior (significant), ie, behavior that (automatically) is endowed with meaning by the mere existence of ... "Somehow, the author critiques of this reactionary element retained toward biological models of behavior, what he calls "imperialism of the medical model."
And while psychology could operate relatively well with these definitions, psychiatry, as a medical discipline that is "still claiming its own" object "(biological) study. And obviously that could not be the brain as a whole, given the diversity of processes and functionality that coordinates. If we review the current list of "mental illness" We see this "fracture" neurophysiological. Some disorders are related to learning ability, information management and cognitive ability (eg mental subnormality, Mathematics disorder), others with the sex drive, feeding behavior, language processing (eg, stuttering), social skills, and even with the massive destruction of the brain (dementia). Virtually the only common denominator found along these criteria agreed is that behavioral syndromes is described in terms of specific events for humans.
Cognitive Science of Religion, the subject of this blog, points to a possible solution to the epistemological confusion of psychology and psychiatry, while an alternative has been to isolate neurobiological components that are relevant to the "Social Brain." That is, has shown that there are an innate feature set on which ultrasocial developed the unique ability of human beings, the culture itself. A number of psychopathological disorders display some form or other brain disorders such submodules: the detection of agency, the Theory of Mind, "Mental Time Travel " (mental time travel)-alternative movement between episodic memory and hypothetical future scenarios, the empathy, the ability to bond (bonding ), or 'moral intuitions. " In fact, this is a proposal dating back at least 2002, when the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) proposed 2 following:
This foundation [the social brain] would consider the disorders commonly treated by psychiatrists in terms of the physiological basis of which is diverted, as well as heart disease are understood as deviations from normal cardiac function. The key physiological area of \u200b\u200bpsychiatry is the social brain. [...]Much of what we call mind is really the Social Brain in Action. Certainly such a proposal material prune the domain of psychology and psychiatry, the universe of possible objects of study referred to, but would gain internal consistency and a more clear in all the sciences. Other "behavior" would only human to their respective areas in neuroscience, and others may settle for a true "human ethology " (behavioral approach).
In contrast to conventional biopsychosocial model, social brain formulation emphasizes that all psychological and sociological factors are biological . Non-biological psychiatry and non-social can not exist.
Notes:
↑ 1. Jorge L Blight, 1978, "Introduction to the Epistemology of Psychopathology and Psychiatry", editorial Ariel, Spain.
↑ 2. The Social Brain: A foundation for Unifyng Psychiatry. LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
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- what distinguishes us APES OF SPECIES
- ULTRASOCIALES (forum)
- NEURAL BASIS OF THEORY OF MIND
- BIOLOGY OF THE AGENCY AND I
- NEUROSCIENCE OF RELIGION (I): neural correlates of supernatural beliefs
- NEUROSCIENCE OF RELIGION (II): Dopamine, MAGICAL THINKING AND RELIGION
- NEUROSCIENCE OF RELIGION (III): PALEONEUROLOGÍA, MATHEMATICS AND SUPERNATURAL BELIEF
- NEUROSCIENCE OF RELIGION (IV): The ROLE OF SEROTONIN
- NEUROSCIENCE OF RELIGION (V): WHEN THE INTENTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT HAVE FACE
- NEUROSCIENCE OF RELIGION (VI): THE ROLE OF TEMPORAL LOBE
- NEUROSCIENCE OF RELIGION (VII ): THE ROLE OF THE PARIETAL LOBE
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