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Originally Posted by seesaw
Thank you for the clarification. I was only aware of the term "word salad" in reference to schizophrenia, psychoses, and dementia. When I Googled it, almost all the searches I found were on this definition. However, I did find an article that referred to this other kind of "word salad," which is referring to abuse. Here is that article, it's interesting: https://www.psychopathfree.com/artic...ord-salad.147/
It seems like the term was appropriated to discuss abusive speech because of how abusers use it against their victims. But it's important to recognize it has more than one meaning. |
I have only read the headings of this article. It discusses important and completely legitimate issues and from spending 30 seconds scanning the article I recognized my father.
But I am completely horrified that a term that has a very clear meaning when applied to schizophrenia (and thank you, Seesaw, dementia - I did not know that) was appropriated for something for which it does not even fit. The unnecessary confusion has been created, and people might mistakenly believe that schizophrenics do not make sense on purpose, whereas - and it has already been pointed out - word salad cannot be willed.
Again, I did not read the article, but it seemed that the good old passive aggressiveness would fit at least some the subject headings.