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#566 Joel Paris: The Current State of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

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Biological Reductionism

Biological reductionism was an attempt by psychiatry to get back into the main stream of modern medicine. A lot of premature conclusions have been drawin, he says. Each gen accounts for at most one % of the variantsd in the major mental disorders. There may be hundreds or even thousands of genes involved and interacting with each other. The problem being that we don't understand enough about how these interactions work.

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