Open AccessDoes application of complexity theory simplify concepts of psychiatry: Analogies and insights
Author(s) -
Jyoti Prakash,
Kaushik Chatterjee,
Sumitra Shankar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_37_21
Subject(s) - reductionism , causality (physics) , mental illness , perspective (graphical) , psychology , trait , curiosity , vulnerability (computing) , cognitive science , psychiatry , epistemology , mental health , computer science , neuroscience , philosophy , artificial intelligence , physics , computer security , quantum mechanics , programming language
Scientific curiosity has not been able to explain the cause of psychiatric illness based on primarily biological or social paradigm. Available literatures were explored to understand causality of psychiatric illness from perspective of physics. Theory of complexity and other relevant theories were extrapolated to address these questions. Mental illness appeared to be a complex interplay of reductionism and emergentism, genetic and epigenetics, stress and the vulnerability or the core and the periphery. Mental illness displayed complex interaction between biological trait and environmental state.