[A language for the psychotic deaf and their families]

Deafness and psychosis are two, among the processus of recoiling from the world, where the human being's incommunicability is in question. The extreme pathology which associates them forces to establish links for the first contact with the deaf and psychotic child. Hearing means more than what the ears filter. The denial or forclosure of the uttered words is part of a psychological deafness among families and doctors. The child also plays the sense of hearing.