Antireductionisms with regard to mental disorders: Some caveats. A commentary on Marco Stier

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Schoene Seifert, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Medical model of mental disorder; Mental disorders; Non reducibility thesis; Psychiatric diagnostics; Value dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899686414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00350     Document Type: Article

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