@Sean drew my attention to this.
It might be of interested to those interested in academic psychology and/or psychiatry.
Free full text: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100/abstract
It might be of interested to those interested in academic psychology and/or psychiatry.
We also do not address problematic terms that are restricted primarily to popular (“pop”) psychology, such as “codependency,” “dysfunctional,” “toxic,” “inner child,” and “boundaries,” as our principal focus is on questionable terminology in the academic literature. Nevertheless, we touch on a handful of pop psychology terms (e.g., closure, splitting) that have migrated into at least some academic domains.
Free full text: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100/abstract
Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases
REVIEW ARTICLE
Front. Psychol., 03 August 2015 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100
Scott O. Lilienfeld1*, Katheryn C. Sauvigné2, Steven Jay Lynn3,Robin L. Cautin4, Robert D. Latzman2and Irwin D. Waldman1
The goal of this article is to promote clear thinking and clear writing among students and teachers of psychological science by curbing terminological misinformation and confusion.
- 1Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- 2Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- 3Binghamton University – State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA
- 4Department of Psychology, Sacred Heart College, Fairfield, CT, USA
To this end, we present a provisional list of 50 commonly used terms in psychology, psychiatry, and allied fields that should be avoided, or at most used sparingly and with explicit caveats.
We provide corrective information for students, instructors, and researchers regarding these terms, which we organize for expository purposes into five categories: inaccurate or misleading terms, frequently misused terms, ambiguous terms, oxymorons, and pleonasms.
For each term, we (a) explain why it is problematic, (b) delineate one or more examples of its misuse, and (c) when pertinent, offer recommendations for preferable terms.
By being more judicious in their use of terminology, psychologists and psychiatrists can foster clearer thinking in their students and the field at large regarding mental phenomena.