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A Deeper Look at Language in the Therapy Room
The authors discuss the role of language for bilingual clients in treatment. They state that in therapy language is the primary means of transmitting information about beliefs and cultural traditions, articulating emotions, and can also be a source of identity. However, despite an increase in culturally competent treatments in recent years, the role of language […]
Daria Diakonova-Curtis, Ph.D.
February 12, 2017
Bilingualism as a Tool in Psychotherapy
…the one point that the emigrant feels so particularly painfully is—one can only say—the loss of the language in which one had lived and thought and which one will never be able to replace with another for all one’s efforts at empathy. (Freud, as cited in Urdang, 2016, p. 156) Psychotherapists live and work in […]
Daria Diakonova-Curtis, Ph.D.
December 31, 2016