Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Leading experts in psychiatry, philosophy, and psychology integrate the scientific lenses relevant to understanding psychiatric disorders.

Kenneth S. Kendler (Edited by), Josef Parnas (Edited by), Peter Zachar (Edited by)

9781108719254, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 August 2022

582 pages, 18 b/w illus. 4 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.772 kg

'This is a state-of-the-art conversation between leading psychiatrists and philosophers about the challenges and possibilities of explaining psychiatric disorders across multiple levels.' Carl F. Craver, Washington University, St Louis

Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology draws research from psychiatry, philosophy, and psychology to explore the variety of explanatory approaches for understanding the nature of psychiatric disorders both in practice and research. The fields of psychiatry and clinical psychology incorporates many useful explanatory approaches and this book integrates this range of perspectives and makes suggestions about how to advance etiologic theories, classification, and treatment. The editors have brought together leading thinkers who have been widely published and are well-respected in their area of expertise, including several developers of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and authors of the US National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria Project (RDoC). Each main chapter has a commentary provided by one of the other authors and an introduction written by one of the editors to create an accessible, interdisciplinary dialog.

Introduction
Part I. Neuroscience, Mechanisms and RDoC: 1. Introduction Peter Zachar
2. Rethinking psychiatric disorders in terms of heterarchical networks of control mechanisms William Bechtel
3. A typology of levels of mechanisms involved in the etiology of psychiatric illness Kenneth S. Kendler
4. Introduction Kenneth S. Kendler
5. Wrangling the matrix: lessons from the RDoC working memory domain Robert M. Bilder
6. Brain and mind in psychiatry? Presuppositions of cognitive ontology Georg Northoff
7. Introduction Kenneth S. Kendler
8. Tackling hard problems: neuroscience, treatment, and anxiety Daniel S. Pine
9. Comments on Daniel S. Pine Kenneth F. Schaffner
Part II. Phenomenology, Biological Psychology, and the Mind-Body Problem: 10. Introduction Josef Parnas
11. Body self-awareness: multiple levels or dynamical gestalt? Shaun Gallagher
12. Commentary on Gallagher 'Body self-awareness: multiple levels or dynamical gestalt?' Jan-Willem Romeijn
13. Introduction Josef Parnas
14. Can psychiatry dispense with appeal to mental causation? John Campbell
15. Folk psychology and Jaspers' empathic understanding: a conceptual exercise? Peter Zachar
16. Introduction Peter Zachar
17. Phenomenology of a disordered self in schizophrenia: example of an integrative level for psychiatric research Josef Parnas and Maja Zanderson
18. Who is the psychiatric subject? Shaun Gallagher
19. Introduction Kenneth S. Kendler
20. Challenges in the relationships between psychological and biological phenomena in psychopathology Gregory A. Miller and Morgan E. Bartholomew
21. Non-reductionism, eliminativism, and modularity in RDoC: thoughts about a progressive mechanistic science Peter Zachar
Part III. Taxonomy, Integration and Multiple Levels of Explanation: 22. Introduction Josef Parnas
23. Descriptive psychopathology: a manifest level of analysis, or not? Peter Zachar
24. Psychiatry without description Josef Parnas
25. Introduction Peter Zachar
26. Should psychiatry be precise? Reduction, big data, and nosological revision in mental health research Kathryn Tabb
27. Commentary on should psychiatry be precise? Reduction, big data, and nosological revision in mental health research Robert M. Bilder
28. Introduction Peter Zachar
29. Psychiatric classification: an a-reductionist perspective Jan-Willem Romeijn and Hanna van Loo
30. Double black diamond Eric Turkheimer
31. Introduction Peter Zachar
32. Approaches to multi-level models of fear: the what, where, why, how, and how much? Kenneth F. Schaffner
33. Schaffner on levels and selves William Bechtel
34. Introduction Kenneth S. Kendler
35. Levels: what are they and what are they good for? James Woodward
36. Levels of analysis in Alzheimer's disease research Stephan Heckers
37. Introduction Peter Zachar
38. The impact of faculty psychology and theories of psychological causation on the origins of modern psychiatric nosology Kenneth S. Kendler
39. Commentary on 'The impact of faculty psychology and theories of psychological causation on the origins of modern psychiatric nosology' Gregory A. Miller
40. Introduction Kenneth S. Kendler
41. Psychiatric discourse: scientific reductionism for the autonomous person Stephan Heckers
42. Comment on Stephan Heckers, 'Psychiatric discourse: scientific reductionism for the autonomous person' John Campbell
43. Introduction Josef Parnas
44. Entity focus: applied genetic science at different levels Eric Turkheimer
45. Comment on 'Entity focus: applied genetic science at different levels' by Eric Turkheimer Kathryn Tabb.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of science [PDA], Clinical psychology [MMJ], Health psychology [MBNH9]