... classification of symptomatology as beingintrinsic to the addictive disorder or as due to comorbid-ity, it seems best to try to approach the psychopathology of addicts by starting from a low inference ... independence of the two conditions, the difficulty of disentangling supposedly independent psychiatric symp-toms and syndromes from the core psychopathology of addiction, and the overlap between the ... independence of symptoms, or of close linkage between the psychiatricsymptoms and the central symptoms of addiction thatappear together with it needs to be solved. In fact, the application of the classic...