Gallagher S. Integration and Causality in Enactive Approaches to Psychiatry.
Front Psychiatry 2022;
13:870122. [PMID:
35859602 PMCID:
PMC9289159 DOI:
10.3389/fpsyt.2022.870122]
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Abstract
In this paper I address what has been called the integration problem in psychiatry. This problem is tied to conceptions of causality and explanatory levels in our understanding of mind. I take an interdisciplinary enactive perspective to develop a 3-fold method for exploring the dynamics of integration, based on a concept of dynamical causation and a non-hierarchical (level-free) notion of gestalt. I also consider Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a test case.
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