Revue Medicale Suisse
Volume 8, Issue 347, 2012, Pages 1404-1409

Somatization, migration and culture: Common assumptions and alternative strategies [Somatisation, migration et culture: Alternatives à quelques idées reçues] (Review)

Dominicé Dao M.*
  • a Service de Médecine de Premier Recours, Département de Médecine Communautaire, de Premier Recours et des Urgences, HUG, 1211 Genève 14, Switzerland

Abstract

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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Index Keywords

cultural anthropology Culture risk factor Review migrant patient Transients and Migrants Somatoform Disorders somatization human Humans migration
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ISSN: 16609379
Original Language: French