Doctors’ promises
A few days ago my Twitter timeline featured a tweet from a doctor who beseeched his fellow medics not to make promises that “that aren’t in their gift to promise”. I responded with some bewilderment (which was greeted with ‘it happens all the time’). Here I want to make an account why.
Language in psychiatry
Some time ago I came across references to an article on linguistic comparison of auditory hallucinations. As I looked at the article, I thought it was time to write a bit on psychiatric analyses of language.
Delusions are discursive
A very interesting post on the great Imperfect cognitions blog. Wolfram Hinzen takes a linguistic view of delusions. As someone who has ventured into delusions and particularly insight from a discourse analytic point of view, I welcome the linguistic take. Except that I have some problems with what Prof. Hinzen wrote. Continue reading “Delusions are discursive”
“What matters to you?”
In a recent comment in the BMJ Sosena Kebede writes: Ask patients “What matters to you?”. Continuing a pattern of my objections to easy solutions for clinical communication, I am writing this with a plea to the contrary. Please don’t! Continue reading ““What matters to you?””