Paper: 'Lost for words: anxiety, well-being, and the costs of conceptual deprivation'

Dr Munch-Jurisic's paper provides many points that can help demonstrate the holistic bandwidth of Hodges' model. When I read 'conceptual deprivation' in the title, it reminded me of a question. Can Hodges' model inoculate the user against conceptual deprivation, to a degree (at least)? Student nurses have a conceptual framework which highlights the political realm. The model is taught with the point that student's need a metaphoric sword and shield. The sword because they will encounter power, and the politics in health, and health in politics. 

A lack of holistic bandwidth may also result in a lack of integrated, holistic care? 

Aged 17, on my first mental health ward, a mixed-sex admission ward. I was 'lost for words' when as a nursing assistant, a patient, who was very quiet asked: how on earth I thought I could understand her problems? A woman in her 80s at least, I was stopped in my tracks. We agreed finally I could try. There are other points for all users of Hodges' model about the literacies in Hodges' model. Once again that means all of them. I'm still reading ...

Abstract 

A range of contemporary voices argue that negative affective states like distress and anxiety can be morally productive, broaden our epistemic horizons and, under certain conditions, even contribute to social progress. But the potential benefits of stress depend on an agent’s capacity to constructively interpret their affective states. An inability to do so may be detrimental to an agent’s wellbeing and mental health. The broader political, cultural, and socio-economic context shapes the kinds of stressors agents are exposed to, but it also delineates the hermeneutic equipment they have available to interpret their stress. To explain this specific problem of conceptual deprivation, philosophical theories on wellbeing and anxiety need to move beyond individualist perspectives. 

Keywords: Stress · Distress · Discomfort · Affect · Anxiety · Well-being

Munch-Jurisic, D. M. (2021). Lost for words: anxiety, well-being, and the costs of conceptual deprivation. Synthese, 199(5/6), 13583–13600. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48691612