Publications
Publication details [#52239]
Southwood, Frenette, Renata Schoeman and Robin Emsley. 2009. Bilingualism and psychosis: a linguistic analysis of a patient with differential symptom severity across languages. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 27 (2) : 163–171. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This evaluation of an Afrikaans-English bilingual psychotic patient, reveals a complex link between language (use; pathology) and psychosis and exhorts clinicians to assess psychotic bilinguals in both languages in order to disclose the full range of symptoms.