Mental health mystification and social control.
The field of mental health suffers from an abundance of technical jargon. The major social issues that touch upon mental health are debated in these technical terms, but persons most affected by the issues are left out of the debate. Hence, professionals have come to serve as an exclusionary buffer between human anguish and social policy.
D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D011570:Psychiatry; D012106:Research; D012660:Semantics; D012924:Social Conditions; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012940:Social Problems; D014825:Vocabulary