ArticlePsychological medicine2021
Precision psychiatry: promise for the future or rehash of a fossilised foundation?
Article in Psychological medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Machine Learning and Pharmacogenomics at the Time of Precision Psychiatry.Current neuropharmacology · 2023Pooled it
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- What Is Precision Psychotherapy?The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2026Article
- AI and mental health: evaluating supervised machine learning models trained on diagnostic classifications.AI & society · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Adolescents with Special Educational and Care Needs in the Netherlands: A Case-File Study of Three Special Educational and Care Settings.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2024Article
- From diagnosis to dialogue - reconsidering the DSM as a conversation piece in mental health care: a hypothesis and theory.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Clinician and patient perspectives on the ontology of mental disorder: a qualitative study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Restoring the missing person to personalized medicine and precision psychiatry.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Real-World Implementation of Precision Psychiatry: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Precision Nomothetic Medicine in Depression Research: A New Depression Model, and New Endophenotype Classes and Pathway Phenotypes, and A Digital Self.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Precision psychiatry is currently described as an approach that would bring significant advance to psychiatric clinical practice. Theaim of this article is to investigate Precision Psychiatry's promise for the future; should we substantially invest in this new approach? Thearticle is based on a review of the literature and reports a conceptual analysis. A critical examination of Precision Psychiatry's foundationsshows us that its fundaments are obsolete and flawed: we cannot reduce mental suffering to essences in biology. It is problematic to statethat biological processes hold and capture qualia and meaning, and in themselves and without context would hold and capture somethinglike abnormality. Despite its good efforts, precision psychiatry does not represent a sufficiently promising alternative to the phenotyping thatcomes with the current classification systems.
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