Expanding Outcome Measures in Schizophrenia Research: Does the Research Domain Criteria Pose a Threat?

Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 26 (3):243-260 (2019)
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In the introduction to a recent anthology of contemporary issues in philosophy of psychiatry, editors Jeffrey Poland and Şerife Tekin declare this to be a moment of crisis within the field. They suggest that the state of psychiatry today reflects Thomas Kuhn's conception of a period of extraordinary science, which occurs when anomalies begin to build up, confidence in the dominant paradigm is shook, competing theories arise, and philosophical questions come to the fore. Although perhaps not all would agree that the field is in crisis, there is certainly an abundance of pessimism. Within the realm of research, a mood of explanatory pessimism has been growing, characterized by a...

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Phoebe Friesen
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