Furthermore, psychiatric phenomena are notoriously protean in nature.
However, these concepts frequently fail to characterize the broader systemic aspects of stress response patterns related to psychological and psychiatric phenomena, an observation true in ecology as well.
In this paper, we point out the utility of the ecological resilience definition for describing some psychological and psychiatric phenomena; for instance, bipolar disorder.
Murphy (2006) argues that the variety in mental illness requires us to explain psychiatric phenomena not by looking for stable regularities but by constructing exemplars.
We expect that the conceptual framework and metaphor described in this article offers a tool to understand psychiatric phenomena from a systems perspective.
This is, in part, understandable, because psychiatrists, with a background in medical education, are trained to see psychiatric phenomena as diseases, as well as pathological deviations from a (unspecified) biological and or social norm.
Since Ulteam opened, in 2011, Thienpont said it has been "overrun by psychiatric patients" — a phenomenon that she attributes to the poor quality of psychiatric care in the country.
However, the view of transsexuality and other trans-related phenomena as psychiatric and/or medical conditions has a much longer history.
A growing body of knowledge focuses on the association between psychiatric diseases and autoimmune phenomena, including the detection of antibodies against intracellular neuronal antigens.
