Talk:Issues in Interdisciplinarity 2019-20/Evidence in the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

15/11/2019 During the ATK Wikibook session we formed our group and discussed the issue we would like to talk about: evidence and a topic related to mental disorders.

19/11/2019 During the seminar, we discussed the mental disorders we would like to do some research on. We decided to do some reading on schizophrenia, autism and depression. Then, through the week we sent to each other some of the articles we had read and found useful on these topics.

26/11/19 The entire group held a meeting to refine our subject to only schizophrenia and its treatment and diagnosis. We also discussed the disciplines we could write about. We therefore decided that Daniela would search the anthropology and culture side, Naomi would look at the theological and history impact, Aja would explain the phenomenology of the disease diagnosis and Tiphaine search the hard scientific approach to this topic. (Later changed to Naomi and Daniela both doing anthropology and culture, but each specifying on a topic: Naomi on ethnography and Daniela on gender differences).

03/12/19 We had another meeting, where we shared what we uploaded and our thoughts. It was agreed that we would have to upload images/diagrams/visual content, refine and be critical with each other's work (grammar, vocabulary, the structure of our sentences...) and choose a specific citing style (Harvard).

Most of our discussion about the specifics of the wikibook (the readings shared, the rephrasing approval, the problems we had) were done in a group chat

06/12/19

Naomi and Daniela during the seminar identified that we are not properly addressing the issue through the different discipline's evidence gathering methods and how they 'conflict' with each other. Scientific perspective should provide this topic with more depth: a biologist's point of view does not question the reliability of scientific and evidential methods, but 'argue' for it. The anthropological approach fails to touch on how evidence is gathered (open-ended questionnaires, participant observation and ethnography...). In the introduction we offer phenomenology as a solution but fail to discuss it in the conclusion.

10/12/19

The whole group met together and decided it would be more effective to structure the wikibook in qualitative and quantitative sections, to further highlight the conflict in different forms of evidence. Naomi was willing to get rid of her cultural paragraph and take on an important aspect we were missing - the behavioural psychological approach. Daniela volunteered to incorporate some of the cultural aspects into her paragraph on gender, condensing them to make space for our new paragraph. Tiphaine agreed to change her 'scientific approach' paragraph to focus more on biology and genetics.