Precision psychiatry: promise for the future or rehash of a fossilised foundation?

Psychol Med. 2021 Feb 22:1-3. doi: 10.1017/S0033291721000271. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrecision 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.PMID:33612128 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291721000271

Source: Psychological Medicine - February 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Annemarie C J K öhne Jim van Os Source Type: research