Antirealism Will Not Save the DSM From Empirical Inadequacy

nowhere.” It is the conviction that in order to describe the world accurately and empirically, we must put aside res cogitans—the subjective, immediate way in which we experience the world in our minds—and limit ourselves to res extensa, the objective, mathematical language of physical facts. Without these distinctions, it’s difficult to imagine th

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To make this concrete, here are the failure-modes of a few popular psychospiritual modalities that I love: • IFS: you go looking for problematic parts, so the mind starts creating & reifying ones that explain your problems • Somatic experiencing: you look for trauma in the body, mind starts generating or regenerating uncomfortable tensions/pains/se... See more