Can a whole discipline act as an interface?

Abstract

"In this article, we consider how certain types of contemporary biosocial psychiatric research conceptualise and explicate biology-social relations. We compare the historic biopsychosocial model to recent examples of social defeat research on schizophrenia and cultural neuroscience work on affective disorders. This comparison reveals how the contemporary turn towards the ‘biosocial’ within psychiatric research relies upon ideas of the psychological as an interface. This is problematic because psychological notions of ‘experience’ are used as the central mechanics of biosocial processes, but lack any meaningful engagement with considerable debates within psychology and cognitive science about what the mind, and indeed the psychological, actually is, its relationship to social life, and how we should study it. The psychological interface is therefore vital to these biosocial hypotheses but is remarkably underdeveloped in comparison to its biological and sociological components. We argue that biosocial psychiatric research could gain a great deal from engaging with contemporary theorisations of experience and being more critical of vague appeals to psychological phenomena." p.317. [my emphasis]

Fletcher, J. R., & Birk, R. H. (2022). The conundrum of the psychological interface: On the problems of bridging the biological and the social. History of the Human Sciences, 35(3-4), 317-339. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211070503 

Individual
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      INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

PSYCHOLOGY - as interface? Intrapersonal - Interpersonal Individual psychology	BIOLOGICAL
Group psychology SOCIAL

Does each of the disciplines in Hodges' model act as an interface in certain contexts/situations?

If there is a primary discipline (domain), that determines the context, is this also the interface (interstitial)? Discuss.

If care is integrated, holistic, with parity of esteem demonstrably assured should each discipline have its turn as interface?

My source/prompt:

Preparation for a conference video: 5 ppt slides, Samsung Notes drawing of Hodges' model, 7 slides.

If I can't put this together, it is still worth the effort.