The thought IS the language, disse Wittgenstein

"As a psychiatrist, I run into a major difficulty at the outset: how can I go straight to the patients if the psychiatric words at my disposal keep the patient at a distance from me? How can one demonstrate the general human relevance and significance of the patient's condition if the words one has to use are specifically designed to isolate and circumscribe the meaning of the patient's life to a particular clinical entity?"
R. D. Laing, in The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

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