Considerations regarding the fragility of hypotheses in psychiatry and psychopharmacotherapy
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https://doi.org/10.25118/2763-9037.2012.v2.898Keywords:
method, hypothesis, psychiatry, psychopharmacotherapyAbstract
In this work, a draft of an essay, the aim is to demonstrate the fragility of the current hypotheses in the field of psychiatry and neuroscience by using a randomly chosen example. The examples adopted are not judged on their “value”, but simply on whether or not they should be accepted as a basis for “classifications” and the creation of “guidelines”, “algorithms” or “decision trees” to guide “diagnosis” or “evidence” that one or another criterion should prevail over another when it comes to choosing a therapeutic intervention. The core of the work is the use of the “method resource” as an indispensable part of psychiatric thinking.
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