What's in a model? Network models as tools instead of representations of what psychiatric disorders really are

Hanna M. van Loo; Jan-Willem Romeijn

doi:10.1017/S0140525X18001206

What's in a model? Network models as tools instead of representations of what psychiatric disorders really are

Hanna M. van Loo^*, Jan-Willem Romeijn

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Abstract

Network models block reductionism about psychiatric disorders only if models are interpreted in a realist manner - that is, taken to represent "what psychiatric disorders really are." A flexible and more instrumentalist view of models is needed to improve our understanding of the heterogeneity and multifactorial character of psychiatric disorders.

Original language	English
Article number	30
Number of pages	2
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	42
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18001206
Publication status	Published - 2019

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