title: Symptom networks and psychiatric categories.
abstract: The network approach to psychiatric phenomena has the potential to clarify and enhance psychiatric diagnosis and classification. However, its generally well-justified anti-essentialism views psychiatric disorders as invariably fuzzy and arbitrary, and overlooks the likelihood that the domain includes some latent categories. Network models misrepresent these categories, and fail to recognize that some comorbidity may represent valid co-occurrence of discrete conditions.
authors.affiliation: University of Melbourne, Department of Psychology, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia. nhaslam@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Haslam
mesh_terms: D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008960:Models, Psychological