Re:Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid
by runarberg on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:05PM
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> I clicked in ready to see "shell shock" being renamed for the third time in less than a century
It’s interesting you’d say that because I always understood the term Shell Shock to have been abandoned in favor of a more accurate and descriptive term. So I think if it was still in use by psychologists today (for some reason), I would have expected to see that on this list, and see the authors argue for the far more accurate term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
As a case in point, this list does include Multiple personality disorder and argues we should instead use the more accurate term dissociative identity disorder.
It’s interesting you’d say that because I always understood the term Shell Shock to have been abandoned in favor of a more accurate and descriptive term. So I think if it was still in use by psychologists today (for some reason), I would have expected to see that on this list, and see the authors argue for the far more accurate term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
As a case in point, this list does include Multiple personality disorder and argues we should instead use the more accurate term dissociative identity disorder.