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Here it was clear to us from the outset that it’s completely unsatisfactory to look for a single bodily cause according to the model of scientific medicine.
To the SPK, to claim that mental illness is simply a biological phenomena and only an individual issue, is to make a surface level observation (like the one that both stones and other bodies fall to the ground), and not a complete explanation based on an understanding of the totality of the complex causes of the phenomena, (just as the explanation of the falling stone was not complete without theories of mass, matter, and gravity). They later wrote in the same polemic: