Comments on “Causal pathways, random walks, and tortuous paths: moving from the descriptive to the etiological in psychiatry”

This chapter presents a commentary on the move from the descriptive to the etiological perspective in psychiatry, as discussed in the previous chapter. It also raises additional considerations, including the notion of the “cause” of non-existent things, epistemic iteration and evolving meaning, and description and latent class analysis (LCA).