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  • The language that we use: comments on “Pathogenic language in psychiatric practice and how to combat it”

    Author(s)
    Suetani, S
    Kisely, S
    Parker, S
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Suetani, Shuichi
    Kisely, Steve R.
    Parker, Stephen D.
    Year published
    2020
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    Abstract
    Psychiatrists have a professional duty to contribute to efforts to limit the stigma associated with mental illness and its treatment.1 In their recent article, Bloch and Haslam2 elegantly emphasise the importance of language in psychiatry to the experiences of people affected by mental illness. They argue that certain terminology can or may cause harm. Such language has the following characteristics: (i) dehumanisation by representing people as objects, (ii) denigration by construing people as blameworthy, (iii) intimation by provoking unnecessary anxiety and (iv) demoralisation by undermining sense of hope. In considering ...
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    Psychiatrists have a professional duty to contribute to efforts to limit the stigma associated with mental illness and its treatment.1 In their recent article, Bloch and Haslam2 elegantly emphasise the importance of language in psychiatry to the experiences of people affected by mental illness. They argue that certain terminology can or may cause harm. Such language has the following characteristics: (i) dehumanisation by representing people as objects, (ii) denigration by construing people as blameworthy, (iii) intimation by provoking unnecessary anxiety and (iv) demoralisation by undermining sense of hope. In considering their criteria, we wonder whether terminology associated with involuntary mental health treatment of people involved in the criminal justice system may have such pathogenic effects.
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    Journal Title
    Australasian Psychiatry
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1039856220978866
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    This publication has been entered as an advanced online version in Griffith Research Online.
    Subject
    Biomedical and clinical sciences
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/400567
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