Somatization, migration and culture: common assumptions and alternative strategies
Dominicé, D.M.
Revue Medicale Suisse 8(347): 1404-1406; 1408-1409
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 1660-9379 PMID: 22872941 Document Number: 663760
This article wishes to deconstruct the stereotype of the "somatizing migrant" by reexamining the process of somatization in a cultural perspective and by pointing out the factors that may jeopardize the therapeutic relationship with a migrant patient. It offers suggestions to broaden the clinician's perspective of his patient, and argues for multiple interpretations of the somatization process.
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