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    It is not the case that An interventionist model of causation provides a rigorous way of articulating that any combination of variables might characterize the causes of a disorder, while providing a clear test of which variables are actually involved.

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    • 1.Woodward's interventionist framework presupposes modularity: that variables can be intervened on independently, but psychiatric systems exhibit dense reciprocal causation that violates this assumption.
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    • 2.When feedback loops between biological, psychological, and social variables are constitutive of a disorder (as in network models of depression), surgical interventions on single nodes alter the system rather than test it.
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    • 3.A causal test that systematically distorts what it measures cannot provide the rigorous identification of causal variables the interventionist model promises in psychopathology.
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    • 1.Cartwright argues that difference-making accounts identify causes only relative to a privileged set of background conditions, making causal claims context-dependent rather than universal.
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    • 2.In psychiatry, the relevant background population and conditions (developmental history, social context, gene-environment interactions) are not fixed across clinical contexts, so interventionist tests yield causal verdicts that fail to generalize.
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    • 3.A model whose causal verdicts are population- and context-relative cannot provide the kind of rigorous, disorder-level causal articulation the claim attributes to interventionism.
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    • 1.The interventionist model holds that X causes Y if and only if intervening on X makes a difference to Y.
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    • 2.This framework allows researchers to specify which variables among many candidates are genuinely causal by testing what would happen to Y under interventions on X.
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    • 3.The interventionist model thereby avoids a simple-minded holism that merely asserts that many things are relevant without specifying which are causally efficacious.
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