title: Lessons from cross-cultural psychotherapy.
abstract: The author identifies the effective technical aspects of cross-cultural psychotherapy: appropriate use of the medical model, recognition of nonverbal communication, and sensitivity to the subjective aspects of the patient's life. These approaches, when used with self-awareness and flexibility, can aid in the psychotherapeutic work with patients whose socioeconomic status, life style, ethnic origin or sexual orientation differs from that of the psychiatrist.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003469:Culture; D004645:Empathy; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012803:Sick Role; D012923:Social Class; D014481:United States