There is a renewed interest for complex adaptive system approaches that can account for
the inherently complex and dynamic nature of psychopathology. Yet a theory of …

Interoception, the ability to convey one's overall physiological state, allows people to
describe their health along an experiential continuum, from excellent, very good, good, fair …

Much current psychopathology research is framed by categorical constructs. Limitations of
categorical constructs have been articulated, and dimensional constructs are often proposed …

This commentary emphasizes the implications for a mental health research agenda that
stem from the papers in this special section on dimensional models of psychopathology …

In this editorial for the collection on complexity in mental health research, we introduce and
summarize the inaugural contributions to this collection: a series of theoretical …

Human life changes with time. It seems therefore obvious that most of the phenomena that
psychology and psychotherapy are concerned with are dynamic in nature. For human …

There has been substantial recent interest in the development of a quantitative, empirically
based model of psychopathology. However, the majority of pertinent research has focused …

BackgroundAnalyses of co-morbidity patterns among common mental disorders have
repeatedly indicated that relationships among disorders can be understood in terms of …

The reliability and validity of traditional taxonomies are limited by arbitrary boundaries
between psychopathology and normality, often unclear boundaries between disorders …

Cybernetics, the study of principles governing goal-directed, self-regulating systems, offers a
useful approach to understanding psychopathology or psychological dysfunction …