Steps Towards a Unified Theory of Psychopathology: The Phase Space of Meaning Model.

ABSTRACT: The hypothesis of a general psychopathology factor (p factor) has been advanced in recent years. It is an innovation with breakthrough potential, in the perspective of a unified view of psychopathology; however, what remains a controversial topic is how its nature might be conceptualized. The current paper outlines a semiotic, embodied and psychoanalytic conceptualization of psychopathology - the Phase Space of Meaning (PSM) model - aimed at providing ontological grounds to the p factor hypothesis. Framed within a more general model of how the mind works, the PSM model maintains that the p factor can be conceived as the empirical marker of the degree of rigidity of the meaning-maker's way of interpreting experience, namely of the dimensions of meanings used to map the

SUBMITTER: Venuleo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8629070 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature