Tag Archives: labelling

Does Mental illness exist?

May 16, 2008 – 2:44 pm

Following on from the debate sparked off by “on the borderline” as well my own philosophical musing on the nature of mental illness and Psychiatry it appears clear to me that Psychiatry obviously involves a theory of mind. This often leads to mental health professionals being accused of playing “mind games” or seeking to [...]

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The Language of the Client.

May 3, 2008 – 11:59 pm

(Guest post by Bristab1)
Dear Readers
Having spent some forty years of my life as a mental health nurse, I earnestly believe that the principal therapeutic tool of the Nurse is the ‘Helping-Self ‘. The application of such help is conveyed by the modeling and interpersonal skills of the nurse, and his/her ability to form [...]

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What’s in a name?

April 25, 2008 – 8:37 am

It’s the question The Shrink is asking over there, so I thought we ought to ask it over here as well.
Seems like all the good doc’s patients want to be called - well - “patients”. Not clients or users or service users, but patients.
“Service user” suggests the voluntary exercise of choice. I choose [...]

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The L Word

March 5, 2008 – 8:20 pm

Apologies to those of you who are fans of gratuitous nudity and girl-on-girl action involving Mia Kirshner (and who doesn’t like that, eh?), but the L word we’re referring to here is “labelling”.
Labels, particularly psychiatric labels, tend to come with a large amount of baggage. They’re regarded as pejorative, they often stay on your medical [...]

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