Abstract

BOLANOS SALVATIERRA, Silvio. Análisis epistémico del modelo biológico para explicar el origen de la esquizofrenia. Actual. psicol. [online]. 2003, vol.19, n.106, pp. 113-130. ISSN 0258-6444.

In this article the current state of the studies is revised according to try to explain the schizophrenic behavior genetically. Among these, stand out two types of investigations, those try to correlate statistically some genes with the illness and the adoption meta-analysis that have generated the discovery of the schizotaxia, which consists in a combination of negative symptoms and neuropsychological dysfunctions that affect all the relatives of the schizophrenic patient. An alternative model proposes to integrate lamarckianly the genetics factors, to understand dialectically the illness. The models of investigation of the behavior are analyzed from an epistemological perspective. The biologicist merits are recognized: the resolution of the dualism mind-body and their contributions for the break up of the problem health-illness. Their limitations are pointed out (opposition mind-environment and matter-information), those are intended also, as the challenges that will face and overcome the biological and social sciences.

Keywords : Schizophrenia; Schizotaxia; Genetics; Neuropsychology; Cybernetic psychology.