The Crisis of Language in Therapeutic Spaces

The Crisis of Language in Therapeutic Spaces

My own clinical work has brought these theoretical concerns into sharp relief. In my therapeutic practice, I have repeatedly encountered the limitations of conventional clinical discourse when working with patients with chornic neurological disease whose experiences resist categorization or exceed the boundaries of diagnostic language. My patients experiencing profound spiritual crises, existential uncertainties, or trauma that defies articulation often struggle against the very linguistic frameworks intended to facilitate healing. My recent essays document this ongoing tension between the therapeutic imperative to speak and the frequent inadequacy of words to capture lived experience. These professional challenges have led me to explore mystical traditions not as abstract alternatives but as practical resources for expanding therapeutic dialogue beyond its conventional constraints. This paper thus emerges from both scholarly inquiry and pressing clinical concerns about how language both enables and constrains the healing process.