title: [Patients of other cultures and somatization].
abstract: This work concerns my personal clinical experience with people of other cultures presenting somatization. I analyse different ways of understanding this apparent lack of words in some of these patients, and a clinical approach based on the conviction that words are necessary to alleviate suffering of our patients.
authors.affiliation: donatellabdh@iprolink.ch
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bierens de Haan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*