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Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal
University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Professor of Finance and Psychology in SIAS-CIAPS (Centre for International
Advanced and Professional Studies).
*Corresponding Author: Sam Vaknin, Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Professor of Finance and Psychology in SIAS-CIAPS, Email: samvaknin@gmail.com
Citation:
Sam Vaknin (2020) Network vs.
Hierarchy as Organizing Principles: Information, Power, Benefits in Business as
in the Brain. J Neuropsychiatr Neurodis, 2(2);1-3
Copyright:
© 2020, Network vs. Hierarchy as Organizing
Principles: Information, Power, Benefits in Business as in the Brain,
et al. This is an open-access article
distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are
credited.
ABSTRACT
Network
methodology and concepts are also being applied to mental health disorders and
psychopathology: symptoms are treated as nodes, causally interconnected via
biological, psychological, and societal mechanisms. Symptoms can become
self-sustaining and self-reinforcing as they get integrated in robust feedback
loops. The entire network than becomes chaotic (disordered). Stable states of networked
symptoms amount to discreet mental health diagnoses (Borsboom, D.(2017) A
Network Theory of Mental Disorders, World Psychiatry, 16(1): 5–13, https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20375).
This
reconception of mental illness as a network of directly and dynamically
interacting symptoms is a reversal of the medicalized static common cause and
latent variable model where symptoms are brought on by a single mental health
syndrome or disorder (Bringmann, L. F., & Eronen, M. I. (2018). Don't blame
the model: Reconsidering the network approach to psychopathology. Psychological
Review, 125 (4), 606-615. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000108).
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