Language in Psychiatry - A Handbook of Clinical Practice - Jonathan Fine†
Communication Disorders
Language in Psychiatry - A Handbook of Clinical Practice - Jonathan Fine†
Jonathan Fine† [+]
Bar-Ilan University
Jonathan Fine, who died in September 2015, taught in the department of English at Bar-Ilan University. He published studies on the language of psychiatric syndromes including pervasive developmental disorders, schizophrenia, and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder. His other research includes discourse analysis, systemic functional theory, first and second language acquisition and genre. He edited or authored five books on language in use including Language in Psychiatry: A Handbook of Clinical Practice (Equinox).
Description
In this chapter, the author deals with Communication Disorders in terms of its use in psychiatry and how it relates to other psychiatric disorders. Since the language features of Communication Disorders may overlap with other disorders, it is important to separate the disorders from each other. If individuals with dissimilar substrates are combined in one disorder because the communication issues are similar, it will be very difficult to treat individuals effectively or to search for underlying factors. By separating the disorders, it is possible and perhaps even easier, to search for coherent cognitive, biological or other accounts of the disorders.