This article was first written for the Laboratory of Fundamental Psychopathology of the Program for Graduate Studies in Clinical Psychology at the Catholic University of São Paulo. It presents the case of Pedro, a young polyglot who at some point in his life had developed his own personal language, a fact which caused him a certain degree of suffering. The psychotherapeutic procedure used is then described and certain resulting metapsychological implications are discussed. Finally, an intimate and complex personal relationship between pathos and culture is established.
Schizophrenia; miscegenation; psychotherapy; psychopathology