title: [The Research Domain Criteria (Rdoc), reductionism and clinical psychiatry].
abstract: The focus of the advocates of the Research Domain Critria (RDoC) on faulty brain circuits has led some to suspect it of being a reductionist enterprise. And because RDoC will eventually impact clinical psychiatry, some have feared that it will transform clinical psychiatry in a mindless and applied neurobehavioral science. We argue that if RDoC is officially endorsing a kind of reductionism, the particular kind of reductionism it endorses is not suffering from the shortcomings of more classical forms of reductionism. Because of that, at least in principle, RDoC could enrich rather than impoverish clinical psychiatry. This paper raises few potential problems of the RDoC for clinical psychiatry caused by its implicit epistemological reductionism.
authors.affiliation: Département de philosophie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3C 3P8. Faucher.luc@uqam.ca.
authors.forename: Luc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Faucher
authors.affiliation: Département de philosophie, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3C 3P8.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goyer
mesh_terms: D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D011570:Psychiatry; D012106:Research
keywords: Clinical Psychiatry; Conception of mental Disorder; Pluralism; RDoC; Reductionnism