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    The strong interpretation of the medical model does not rule out explanations that cite cognitive processes in brains

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    • 1.Andreasen (1997) argues that schizophrenia and depression are cognitive pathologies
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    • 2.Andreasen conceives psychiatry as integrating information from related disciplines to develop models explaining cognitive dysfunctions based on normal mind/brain function
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    • 3.This conception of psychiatry is fully biological without being committed to a particular metaphysical interpretation of what biological explanation must look like
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    • 1.The medical model, as classically formulated by Boorse (1977), defines disease in terms of species-typical biological functioning, not cognitive or computational states.
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    • 2.Cognitive processes, as understood in cognitive science, are multiply realizable and thus resist reduction to the purely biological substrate the medical model requires.
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    • 3.Admitting cognitive-level explanations without reduction collapses the distinction between biological and psychological psychiatry, undermining the 'strong' qualifier entirely.
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    • 1.Szasz and Wakefield both argue that the medical model gains its normative force precisely from its commitment to value-free, structural pathology—not functional or representational failure.
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    • 2.Cognitive dysfunction explanations necessarily invoke norms of rationality and intentionality, which are irreducibly evaluative and thus external to a strictly biological explanatory framework.
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    First, nothing in the strong interpretation of the medical model rules out explanations that cite cognitive processes in brains: Andreasen (1997) argues that schizophrenia and depression are cognitive pathologies and sees psychiatry as both a form of medicine and “the discipline within cognitive neuroscience that integrates information from all these related disciplines in order to develop models that explain the cognitive dysfunctions of psychiatric patients based on knowledge of normal mind/br
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