Article on misleading terms in psychiatry/psychology

[birchswing]

I found some of these quite interesting:

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100/full

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[OldPsychDoc]

Many of my hot buttons in there...

 

[masterofmonkeys]

Awesome article

 

[smalltownpsych]

Loved this article although it was a bit too focused on research language as opposed to clinical language. I do have to admit that I have made the steep-learning curve statement in error.
It would have been nice for them to mention two of my least liked and often heard terms: manipulative and attention-seeking.

 

[MacDonaldTriad]

The most misleading term in medicine? Golytely.

 

[Member 1337]

Loved this article although it was a bit too focused on research language as opposed to clinical language.

It's a great article but definitely a bit too academic in its style for my taste... can't remember the last time I used the word "opprobrium" while trying to make something easier to understand and clarify meaning...

 

[birchswing]

I saw the article by way of Brian Earp, who is a researcher at Oxford. I don't do much on Twitter but I follow him because he posts interesting things that are usually quite varied and often don't show up in other types of media:
https://twitter.com/briandavidearp

 

[shan564]

Many of my hot buttons in there...

+1, although there are terms in there that I definitely find myself using at times.