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The DSM-1 was published in 1952, contains 128 diagnostic categories, described in 132 pages. The DSM-5 appeared in 2013, contains 541 diagnostic categories, described in 947 pages. The field of psychology is characterised by a steady proliferation of diagnostic models and subcategories, that seems to be inspired by the principle of "divide and inflate". This approach is in contrast with experimental evidence, which suggests on one hand that traumas of various kind are often present in the anamnesis of patients and, on the other, that the gene variants implicated are shared across a wide range of diagnoses. In this work I propose a holistic approach, built with tools borrowed from the field of Artificial Intelligence. My model is based on two pillars. The first one is trauma, which represents the attack to the mind, is psychological in nature and has its origin in the environment. The second pillar is dissociation, which represents the mind defence in both physiological and pathological conditions, and incorporates all other defence mechanisms. Damages to dissociation can be considered as another category of attacks, that are neurobiological in nature and can be of genetic or enviro

Author

Fontana, Alessandro

Published

2019

Language

EN