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psychiatrisch ziekenhuis

Ga naar een (go to a) psychiatrisch ziekenhuis (psychiatric hospital)
by YourMotherJeMoeder August 6, 2016
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psychiatriphobia

an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive and morbid fear of psychiatry, psychiatrists, and anything directly related to them
The CCHR is so psychiatriphobic.

Friend 1: "You seem depressed. You should really see a therapist."
Friend 2: "AH! I'm afraid of therapists."
Friend 1: "Darn it! You're so ill of psychiatriphobia."
by dav davi December 22, 2013
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psychiachrist

A therapist who comes to believe s/he is a client's messiah.
"Jordan Peterson seems like the sort of psychologist who acts more like a psychiachrist than a therapist."
by SalvyZ May 4, 2021
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psychiatric proctologist

Medical specialist who helps people get their heads out of their asses
Dipshit, you are a fool; you require a psychiatric proctologist to help you get your head out of your ass.
by Herbos, a prince June 8, 2021
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A specific form of pathologization where the framework is explicitly psychiatric—human experience interpreted through the lens of mental disorder, diagnosis, and treatment. Under Psychiatrization of Everything, all distress becomes mental illness, all difference becomes disorder, all suffering becomes syndrome. The psychiatric vocabulary colonizes experience: trauma, trigger, narcissist, borderline, bipolar, schizo—terms once clinical now applied broadly, casually, often inaccurately. The result is not better mental health but the medicalization of life itself, with everyone a patient and everything a condition.
"Your ex was selfish? 'He's a narcissist.' Your friend is moody? 'She's bipolar.' You're anxious about the future? 'That's generalized anxiety.' That's Psychiatrization of Everything—turning human complexity into diagnostic labels. Not understanding, just categorizing. Not healing, just naming. The psychiatric gaze sees disorders everywhere, people nowhere."
by Dumu The Void February 28, 2026
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Psychiatric Sophism

The use of psychiatric labels and authority to dismiss, control, or silence those who challenge power or convention. Psychiatric Sophism turns diagnosis into social control: political dissent becomes "paranoia"; resistance to injustice becomes "oppositional defiant disorder"; grief becomes "depression" that needs medication. It's sophistry in medical clothing: using the authority of psychiatry to pathologize the inconvenient.
"He protested injustice. They called him delusional. Psychiatric Sophism: using diagnosis as dismissal, psychiatry as policing. The label wasn't clinical; it was political. Psychiatry became a tool for silencing, not healing."
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 7, 2026
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Psychiatric Moralism

A form of moralism where psychiatric diagnoses and categories are used to judge, condemn, and exclude those whose behavior or beliefs deviate from approved norms. The psychiatric moralist treats mental illness not as suffering to be alleviated but as moral failing to be condemned, using diagnostic labels as weapons rather than tools for care. Political dissenters are "crazy," social deviants are "disordered," those who won't conform are "mentally ill." The moralism lies in using the authority of psychiatry to pathologize difference, treating those who don't fit as sick rather than simply different, and deploying diagnostic language as a form of social control rather than healing.
Example: "He dismissed her completely different worldview as 'delusional'—not a clinical judgment, just a way of saying she was wrong. Psychiatric Moralism: using the language of illness to avoid engaging with difference."
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 14, 2026
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