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dc.contributor.authorSuetani, S
dc.contributor.authorKisely, S
dc.contributor.authorParker, S
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-04T01:01:50Z
dc.date.available2021-01-04T01:01:50Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn1039-8562
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1039856220978866
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/400567
dc.description.abstractPsychiatrists 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralasian Psychiatry
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiomedical and clinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode32
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode52
dc.titleThe language that we use: comments on “Pathogenic language in psychiatric practice and how to combat it”
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC3 - Articles (Letter/ Note)
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSuetani, S; Kisely, S; Parker, S, The language that we use: comments on “Pathogenic language in psychiatric practice and how to combat it”, Australasian Psychiatry, 2020
dc.date.updated2021-01-03T23:32:38Z
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered as an advanced online version in Griffith Research Online.
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gro.griffith.authorSuetani, Shuichi
gro.griffith.authorKisely, Steve R.
gro.griffith.authorParker, Stephen D.


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