Clinical review reveals an emotional-detachment effect during second-language communication in bilingual patients, highlighting critical barriers to effective psychotherapy.
The English-speaking clinician frequently evaluates and treats patients whose mother tongue is not English. This paper summarizes some of the evidence supporting an emotional-detachment effect associated with speaking in a second language and describes its implications for the psychotherapy of this population.
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Luis R. Marcos (1976) studied this question.
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