TY - JOUR AU - Franklin, Joseph C. PY - 2019 DA - 2019/10/18 TI - Psychological primitives can make sense of biopsychosocial factor complexity in psychopathology JO - BMC Medicine SP - 187 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Many agree that the biopsychosocial contributions to psychopathology are complex, yet it is unclear how we can make sense of this complexity. One approach is to reduce this complexity to a few necessary and sufficient biopsychosocial factors; although this approach is easy to understand, it has little explanatory power. Another approach is to fully embrace complexity, proposing that each instance of psychopathology is caused by a partially unique set of biopsychosocial factors; this approach has high explanatory power, but is impossible to comprehend. Due to deficits in either explanatory power or comprehensibility, both approaches limit our ability to make substantial advances in understanding, predicting, and preventing psychopathology. Thus, how can we make sense of biopsychosocial factor complexity? SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1435-1 DO - 10.1186/s12916-019-1435-1 ID - Franklin2019 ER -