Paternalising distress
Here is the tweet by the BMJ in which they show a new infographic on communicating with patients in distress. I find the content of the infographic quite objectionable. This post is about why this is so. Continue reading “Paternalising distress”
How about not talking about suicide ideation?
Over the last few days I have been following the tweets from the congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. As ever, I‘ve seen tweets about language which matters, so I want to make a contribution to the ‘language matters’ discussion. I would like to suggest that suicidology stop talking about suicide ideation. Continue reading “How about not talking about suicide ideation?”
Being in-between
Over the summer, I spent 6 weeks in my native Poland, mostly writing a new book. It was the longest opportunity to speak only Polish I have had for a long time. As I welcomed the opportunity, it also became a source of frustration, and a little identity crisis. I actually started asking myself the question of who I was. And it was all about how we address each other. Continue reading “Being in-between”
What’s the ‘language of disorder’?
My Twitter timeline has again featured reference to the article Drop the language of disorder. It reiterates the well-known postulate that psychology and psychiatry should change the way they speak (or write) and in this post I would like to consider what should be dropped and, if possible at all, what should be adopted instead.
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