Psychotherapeutic Terms.

In this brief article the author notes that certain psychotherapeutic terms sustain the fiction that maladjustment is a medical problem. He questions it would not help to break down this fictitious medical atmosphere if psychologists and writers of psychology texts began to substitute terms like adjustment, mental disorder, maladjustment, etc. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)