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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2019

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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Hanna M van LooDepartment of Psychiatry,University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen,9700 RB Groningen,The Netherlands.h.van.loo@umcg.nlhttp://www.rug.nl/staff/h.m.van.loo/.
Jan-Willem RomeijnFaculty of Philosophy,University of Groningen,9712 GL Groningen,The Netherlands.j.w.romeijn@rug.nlhttp://www.philos.rug.nl/~romeyn/.

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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.

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