A "natural kind" is a specific classification that identifies some structure of truth and reality, a delimited entity. Psychiatric disorders are not natural kinds. As one moves from physics and chemistry to biology and medicine, natural kinds degrade, and the boundaries of differentiating phenomena become less clear. Within psychiatry, the categorization of psychopathology has further ontological challenges, especially across development. We suggest that to identify and isolate clinical subgroups, it is critical to integrate external validators in an iterative process, with the goal of linking classification to treatments with maximal clinical benefit. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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从解构到重建：在发育精神病理学中寻找自然种类。


“自然种类”是一种特定的分类，用于识别真理和现实的某种结构，一个被划定的实体。精神疾病不是自然的种类。当人们从物理和化学转向生物学和医学时，自然种类会退化，区分现象的界限变得不那么清晰。在精神病学中，精神病理学的分类具有进一步的本体论挑战，尤其是在发展方面。我们建议，要识别和隔离临床亚组，将外部验证器集成到迭代过程中至关重要，目的是将分类与具有最大临床益处的治疗联系起来。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。