engleski

Biocognitive classification of antisocial individuals without explanatory reductionism

Effective and specifically targeted social and therapeutic responses for antisocial personality disorders and psychopathy are scarce. Some authors maintain that this scarcity should be overcome by revising current syndrome-based classifications of these conditions and devising better biocognitive classifications of antisocial individuals. The inspiration for the latter classifications has been embedded in the Research domain criteria approach (RDoC). RDoC - type approaches to psychiatric research aim at transforming diagnosis, provide valid measures of disorders, aid clinical practice, and improve health outcomes by integrating the data on the genetic, neural, cognitive, and affective systems underlying psychiatric conditions. In the first part of the paper, we discuss the benefits of such approaches in comparison to the dominant syndrome-based ones and review recent attempts at building biocognitive classifications of antisocial individuals. In the second part, we defend this biocognitive approach form the objection that it involves an untenable explanatory reductionism.

antisocial personality disorder ; psychopathy ; Research domain criteria ; explanatory reductionism ; biocognitive classification ; psychiatric nosology

nije evidentirano