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Causation and explanation

Jane Herlihy and John Gandy argue that neurological explanations do not make psychology redundant.

18 May 2002

…a decade ago we used to have to go round talking about punitive toilet training... Now we truly understand that OCD [obsessive compulsive disorder] is a brain disorder. (Susan Swedo quoted in Brown, 1997, p.31)

How do we feel as psychologists as we read a quote like this?

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