I think that a problem with medical theories is that they will only ever explain a portion of outcomes, but we are forced to behave as if they are all-encompassing
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Or (perhaps) worse, we design and trial interventions with no theoretical backing, and then have no idea how/why they work or fail
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These thoughts after looking into the Theory of Planned Behavior for my PhD and realizing just how incomplete an explanation for actual behaviors it really is
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Reminds me of how my teacher approached her Personality psych class. There are many (3, 6, 8, more) theories of personality. But they all explain the same realities, more or less: it can be useful to use (eg) Freudian vocab to describe something for one person, etc. (Cont.)
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Doesn't mean forcing everything into one theory. It's more...keeping an open mind, a few languages. And use what you need in each case. Not sure how useful this type of thing is in medical theory. Bah. I'm not sure I'm explaining this clearly. (Do I even make any sense?)
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