Psychiatry needs to get beyond dogmatism (biological reductionism or psychoanalytic orthodoxy) and eclecticism (the biopsychosocial model). There may be no solution to this dilemma beyond a method-based psychiatry, in which different methods are used for different purposes. In this brief commentary, I discuss another alternative: the potential role of an integrated theory of brain and mind based on quantum mechanical concepts, seeking to solve the central problem of how the parallel processing

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... etworks of the brain are translated into the sequential experience of mind.