The Influence of Language Upon Symptomatology in Foreign-Born Patients
Abstract
The author describes several cases in which patients showed psychotic symptoms in interviews held in their native languages but not in those conducted in foreign languages, possibly because the effort of communicating in another tongue produces unconscious vigilance over the emotions. While he does not offer a hypothesis, he suggests that further research in the area of psychiatry and linguistics would be rewarding.
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