Reasons and causes: the nature of explanations in psychology and psychiatry.
The relationship between psychological and biological processes is examined. Criteria for the distinction between reasons and causes are described. These provide a basis for a separation of those mental states and behaviour that can be explained in a reductionist fashion, and those that are not reducible. The proposed conceptual framework has clinical and research implications.
D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001143:Arousal; D001364:Awareness; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D009042:Motivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D010684:Philosophy; D011570:Psychiatry; D011584:Psychology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology