Operationalizing the Whole of Psychic Life: Toward a Structured Framework for Psychopathology.
Psychopathology June 15, 2026 Ary Gadelha, Bernardo Haguiara, Pedro Gabriel Lorencetti et al.
Contemporary psychiatry has advanced by decomposing behavior into discrete constructs, improving reliability but fragmenting conceptual foundations. Excessive comorbidity, blurred diagnostic boundaries, and the reification of operational criteria have created a gap between empirical data and the understanding of mental life as a coherent, lived whole - the modern paradox of "more data, less...