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Information processing systems composed of groups of humans may exhibit modes of dysfunction that correspond to psychopathology observed in individuals. Thus, clinical models normally applied to individuals are considered as candidate models for understanding psychosis and neurosis in distributed systems. In the first part, Matthew Blumberg considers dysfunction at the interaction level in the context of schizophrenia, and in the second part, Pietro Michelucci examines dysfunction at the neurological level in the context of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Note that “message” here is used in a general way: including verbal utterance, non-verbal action, absence of utterance or action, etc. Anything that can or should be taken as being of consequence in a social interaction.
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“About half the American public endorses at least one kind of conspiratorial narrative”—“Conspiracy Theories, Magical Thinking, and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion”. J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, Working Paper Series, University of Chicago, 2012.
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Special thanks to Ernesto Michelucci for re-popularizing this simple quote, which has deep implications for the human condition.
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Not to be confused with clinical perfectionism, which is sometimes referred to as obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD).
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Indeed, according to the Batesonian model described above, this could be described as simply another example of context misinterpretation.
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CBT involves overt associative remapping via exposure and response prevention.
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The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to Mary Catherine Bateson for her penetrating observations and practicable feedback, all of which materially improved the conceptual exposition of this chapter.
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Blumberg, M., Michelucci, P. (2013). The Psychopathology of Information Processing Systems. In: Michelucci, P. (eds) Handbook of Human Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8806-4_6
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