Language in Psychiatry - A Handbook of Clinical Practice - Jonathan Fine†
Psychotic 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 authors explore how schizophrenia can be expressed through spoken language. The surface phenomena, mainly in language, may give rise to the diagnosis of schizophrenia and may be the reason why society bothers with the phenomena. The goal here is to understand schizophrenia from the social interface that language constructs. This verbal social interface is largely what draws schizophrenia to the attention of others. More broadly, we interpret psychosis as discontinuity with the context in several ways. The discontinuity is evident largely in how some speakers use language.