Abstract
Commentary to the articles of M. Stier (Normative preconditions for the assessment of mental disorder) and T. Schramme (On the autonomy of the concept of disease in psychiatry)
Highlights
“ . . . because of the normative nature of psychiatry, mental disorder cannot be completely reduced to neuronal or molecular processes. [. . . ] A mental state as such may well be reducible to the brain, but determining whether this very state is a disorder or not, is nothing the brain sciences can do.” (Stier, 2013, p. 8)
Enough the content of Schneider’s posit was later on ascribed to a falsely abridged citation of Griesinger according to which mental diseases were nothing but brain diseases (Griesinger, 1861)
Schneider’s posit goes under the disguise of the semantically inappropriate term of “Biological Psychiatry.”. Following this rational way of thought, the unanswered question arises what could be intended by the title of the reviewed symposium “Biologism within Psychiatry?” (Biologismus in der Psychiatrie?) whereas—strictly speaking— one ought to use the unusual or even inexistent term of “Somatologism.”
Summary
“Mental illness is not reducible to brain illness, even when mental phenomena have their basis in the brain” (Schramme, 2013, p. 8) and “ . . . because of the normative nature of psychiatry, mental disorder cannot be completely reduced to neuronal or molecular processes. [. . . ] A mental state as such may well be reducible to the brain, but determining whether this very state is (part of) a disorder or not, is nothing the brain sciences can do.” (Stier, 2013, p. 8). A commentary on Normative preconditions for the assessment of mental disorder by Stier, M. On the autonomy of the concept of disease in psychiatry by Schramme, T.
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