1. Some therapists have an overly reductive understanding of psychiatric diagnosis. They seem to think a diagnosis of mental disorder necessarily implies there is some intrinsic brain abnormality. They think if someone’s symptoms can be explained with reference to a history of abuse or trauma, then a diagnosis doesn’t apply to them. The logic is so

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Et c’est généralement en fonction de l’épistémologie dominante que le patient perçoit son problème. Il le ressent et le présente dès lors, la plupart du temps, comme une pathologie individuelle. Le questionnement du thérapeute l’amène à le formuler autrement, l’amenant à lui conférer un sens différent. Le thérapeute met le problème en relation avec

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The idea that psychopathology involves entrenchment is not by itself that innovative, but once we conceptualize that entrenchment as canalization, we can now link it to evolutionary phenotypic variation, dynamical systems, the free energy principle, Bayesian frameworks, Hebbian neuroplasticity, etc. and apply ideas from these areas to the study of... See more