From: The place of words and numbers in psychiatric research
Relationships between observations are obtained from | ||||
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A) Hermeneutics | B) Statistics | C) Equations | ||
Symbolisation of observations | 1) Literary | Psychoanalysis, most transcultural psychiatric studies | Competerized textual analysis | Many neurobiological mechanisms |
2) Locally mathematical | ABAB designs for evaluation of CBT | Epidemiology, Cognitive neuroscience, Brain imaging | Pharmacokinetics of psychotropic drugs, Lacan’s “graphe du désir” | |
3) Globally mathematical | Spin glass model of brain functioning | None at the moment in psychiatric research [thermodynamics] | None at the moment in psychiatric research [most of physics] |