Professor Yulia Chentsova-Dutton’s APA PsycNet Article

Professor Yulia Chentsova-Dutton’s American Psychological Association PsycNet article spotlights the vast heterogeneity in how distress manifests across individuals, cultures, and time. Rather than viewing this variability as a diagnostic problem, the authors argue it’s a defining feature of internalizing disorders—shaped by physiological, psychological, and sociocultural forces. By embracing this “shape-shifter” nature, the article calls for a transformative shift in how we understand and study psychopathology.