Unmasking therapy-speak - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
Therapy-speak is the imprecise and superficial integration of psychotherapy language into everyday communication, especially by privileged or wealthy people. Despite the advantages of normalizing psychotherapy language, such as resisting epistemic injustice and enhancing awareness of mental health issues, therapy-speak raises important concerns. On the epistemic front, therapy-speak is susceptible to the erosion of the meaning and relevance of psychotherapy terms, pathologizing, and the risk of self-diagnosis. Regarding its ethical concerns, therapy-speak might be used to discredit individuals, evade responsibilities, and even signal social status, by taking an objective stance. Beyond these epistemic and ethical concerns, therapy-speak can also be weaponized to promote and perpetuate some forms of epistemic injustice, and to generate affective injustice. In particular, we argue that the weaponization of therapy-speak exploits the epistemic authority and the credibility excesses of medical evidence, the conflation between the descriptive and the normative, and the linguistic strategy of deniability to impose a specific way to manage emotions in challenging, and unjust, situations.
Huge congrats to @isernmas.bsky.social & Manuel Almagro on their new paper on #therapyspeak! 🎉
Carme and I talked all about it on my podcast, Behind the Stigma. Episode drops soon!
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Call for Participants📢
If you’re a university student in the UK or UAE who has self-diagnosed (identified a mental health condition) or received a clinical diagnosis, I’d love for you to take part in this survey :)
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Thinking least (or a lot) of death: On the toxicity of positive thinking, and the power of philosophy as therapy
I don't like talking to other patients.
A wonderful piece by Helen De Cruz: I love her defence of philosophy as therapy! helendecruz.substack.com/p/thinking-l... On the toxicity of positive thinking, and the power of philosophy as therapy
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Digital Age: Mental Health, Cognitive Robotics, and AI
New on the #projectEPIC blog today is a report by @seiaraimanova.bsky.social on the workshop she co-organised with Andrew Hicklin on the topic of AI and mental health: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/06/digi...
#epistemicinjustice #AI #mentalhealth #technology
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This was a conversation I'd been so excited for, and it didn't disappoint! It was such a pleasure having Dr. @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social on Behind the Stigma Podcast last week to talk all things Adolescent Mental Health. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...
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Awww Matthew, I'm so glad! Bless her, so sweet!😊
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Excited to be organizing The Digital Age: Mental Health, Robotics & AI at UoB with Andrew Hicklin, featuring Dr. @ljspencer.bsky.social and Dr. @alan-winfield.bsky.social as our guest speakers! You can join us online or in-person. Register here: forms.office.com/e/azVYipz7Gf
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Aww thank you Matthew! Lucky to have the best supervisors!🥰
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Title slides
representation of two influential views of responsibility
the agential ladder, starting from validation
Really enjoyed presenting at Phenomenology of Health & Relationship conference yesterday, an event organised by Michael Larkin. This is new work with Rose McCabe on how to understand agency and responsibility in youth mental health. I loved the participants' engagement! #philsky #epistemicinjustice
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Look forward to reading it!
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Loved this one too, such a beautiful book!
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Likewise Bella! Looking forward to the next one :)
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Thank you for such an enriching conversation!❤️
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Behind the Stigma: the podcast
New post in #projectEPIC blog: Seiara Imanova presents her podcast series Behind the Stigma epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2024/11/behi... #philsky
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