 To begin with, many externalist approaches to psychiatry contest what they see as the basic ontological commitments of psychiatry when it comes to mental illness, by objecting to what is seen as a reductive or internalist thesis that psychiatric conditions are neurological disorders. Competing conceptions of mental illness may accept that psychiatric conditions involve neural dysfunction in some sense, but they argue that no psychic process, including pathological ones, “can be reduced to the brain or to localized neural activities: they are embodied, inherently intentional, and context related” (Fuchs 2018, p. 253)