[A new classification for better care. The promises of the translational psychiatric neuroscience]

Abstract

This article explores the way neuroscientists call for the "deconstruction" of the classifications of mental disorders as we know them, in order to provide solutions to the slowdown of therapeutical innovation in psychiatry. It is based on the case study of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project of the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). My purpose is to show that neuroscience interested in mental disorders offers narratives of innovation, transformation, and desirable futures that are at the heart of the ambitious current research projects and influence them. I approach the versions of the futures proposed by the promoters of translational psychiatric neuroscience in terms of productivity at the scientific, epistemological and socio-political levels.

Keywords: Classifications; Imaginaires sociotechniques; Neuroscience; Neurosciences; Promesses scientifiques; Psychiatrie; Psychiatry; RDoC; Scientific promises; Sociotechnical imaginaries.