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The Languages of Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Lord Brain
Lord Brain*
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The linguistic philosophers have tended to maintain that philosophy is reducible to the ways in which language is used. Without going all the way with them I believe that they have made a valuable contribution to thought, and that it is often illuminating to look at current problems in that way. In attempting to do this for psychiatry my object is to draw attention to the existence in psychiatric thought of what may be called a number of different languages, to consider briefly the rules which apply to each and those which govern the attempt to translate one language into another, and also to look at the relations between psychiatric languages and certain other types of language.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 109 , Issue 458 , January 1963 , pp. 4 - 11
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1963 

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