title: [Somatization, migration and culture: common assumptions and alternative strategies].
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.
authors.affiliation: Consultation transculturelle Service de médecine de premier recours Département de médecine communautaire, de premier recours et des urgences HUG, Genéve. melissa.dominice@hcuge.ch
authors.forename: Dao Melissa
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Dominicé
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology*