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  • Psychology
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Ethics

Background:

  • Therapy-speak involves integrating psychotherapy language into everyday communication.
  • While it can normalize mental health awareness and resist epistemic injustice, it presents significant concerns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the epistemic and ethical implications of therapy-speak.
  • To investigate how therapy-speak can be weaponized to perpetuate injustice.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of therapy-speak in communication.
  • Examination of its impact on meaning, ethics, and social dynamics.

Main Results:

  • Therapy-speak risks eroding the meaning of psychotherapy terms and enabling self-diagnosis.
  • It can be used to discredit others, evade responsibility, and signal social status.
  • Weaponized therapy-speak exploits medical authority and linguistic strategies to control emotional responses.

Conclusions:

  • The casual use of therapy-speak carries significant epistemic and ethical risks.
  • Its weaponization can exacerbate epistemic and affective injustices.
  • Critical examination is needed to mitigate the negative consequences of therapy-speak.