Mind
The language of the treatment space is sneaking into daily life. Psychologist Lucy Foulkes states treatment speak and overpsychologising might do more damage than great
By Catherine de Lange
Nabil Nezzar
WHEN Lucy Foulkes was growing up, young individuals didn’t goover their psychological health. Today, things are really various. There are many psychological health awareness days, the language of psychiatry hasactually endedupbeing incorporated into the vernacular and, in some nations, schools have endupbeing the front line in dealing with the psychological health problems of young individuals.
Even so, Foulkes doesn’t think things have always altered