ReviewFrontiers in sociology2021
Concept Creep and Psychiatrization.
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- Revisiting the Semantic Severity of Anxiety and Depression: Computational Linguistic Study of Normalization and Pathologization.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Exhaustion Disorder in Primary Care: A Comparison With Major Depressive Disorder and Adjustment Disorder.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2025Article
- Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- From adventures to diagnosis: adolescent behavior in classic fiction through the eyes of newly licensed Czech psychiatrists - a vignette study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A critical review of the evolution and interrelation of traumatic stress disorders.PLOS mental health · 2025Review
- Concepts and Reasoning: a Conceptual Review and Analysis of Logical Issues in Empirical Social Science Research.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2024Review
- Individual differences in the expansiveness of mental disorder concepts: development and validation of concept breadth scales.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Have the concepts of 'anxiety' and 'depression' been normalized or pathologized? A corpus study of historical semantic change.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Some aspects of psychiatrization can be understood as forms of concept creep, the progressive expansion of concepts of harm. This article compares the two concepts and explores how concept creep sheds light on psychiatrization. We argue that although psychiatrization is in some respects a broader concept than concept creep, addressing institutional and societal dimensions of the expanding reach of psychiatry in addition to conceptual change, concept creep is broader in other respects, viewing the expansion of psychiatric concepts as examples of the broadening of a more extensive range of harm-related concepts. A concept creep perspective on psychiatrization clarifies the different forms of expansion it involves, the centrality of harm to it, its benefits as well as its costs, its variations across individuals and groups, and the drivers of psychiatrization in the general public and in fields beyond psychiatry.
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