Demarcation, instantiation, and individual traits: Realist social ontology for mental disorders

Realists about mental disorder have been hasty dismissing social explanations of how is constituted. However, many ontologies are realist ontologies. In order to create a meaningful distinction between realism and metaphysics disorder, I propose that best understood as Individual Trait Realism (ITR) them. For ITR, disorders exist in virtue traits. defend the view ITR compatible with metaphysics, arguing that, asking whether constituents sphere figure psychopathology, we questions on three different strata explanation: demarcation, instantiation, individual Distinguishing these allows for nuanced need not reject constitution disorder.