In The Origins of Unhappiness, David Smail touches on the importance of language as a tool for making sense of our experience. He notes that control of language (by distal powers, through education, media, etc.) to a large extent controls thought. People cannot reason about nor come to terms with things they canโt describe, nor to some extent even comprehend ways of thinking that exist outside of the subset of language they have available to them.
Later in the book, he elaborates on this with an example which demonstrates that it is not only the availability of language (the words themselves), but also the authority to apply them to our experience that we require to make sense of our world.
But before [Steve] could voice such criticisms, he had to be, so to speak, offered a language in which to do so. It wasn't, of course, that he literally didn't know the words, but rather that he had not been accorded the authority to apply them to his experience in the way that the psychologist was suggesting.
Coincidentally, this book provides suitable language and the authority to use it in abundance.