Language in Psychiatry - A Handbook of Clinical Practice - Jonathan Fine†
Personality 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 show how excess or scarcity of specific interpersonal and ideational meanings are interpreted by the clinician as atypicalities of inner experience. Our approach is to conceptualise the disorders as observable characteristics of verbal behaviour rather than as the more traditional atypicalities of inner experience.