Abstract

Genetic determinism – the view that all disease processes can be explained as genetic processes – and data fundamentalism – the view that digital traces provide the only relevant, person-level insights into people’s mental health – are two forms of reductionism of personal and superpersonal phenomena that have been presented as fundamental limitations of the paradigms of precision medicine and digital phenotyping. These forms of reductionism are particularly worrisome for the application of precision medicine to psychiatry, which deals with disease entities configured at the superpersonal and personal levels. In this paper, I argue that by adopting a personomic approach to precision medicine and digital phenotyping – a digital personomic approach – one can conceive of non-reductive precision and digital psychiatry programs.