Cross-Cultural Psychotherapy
WILLIAM M. BOLMAN M.D.1
1 Assistant professor, child psychiatry division, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1300 University Avenue, Madison, Wis. 53706
One of the major obstacles in the development of mental health services in large areas of the non-Western world is the difficulty in making culture- and language-specific adaptations of Western scientific approaches. Individual psychotherapy is a powerful tool in the generation of such culture-specific concepts; it can be a highly useful technique for transcultural psychiatry. Toward this goal the author proposes a basic model which involves two therapists, one representing each culture, together with additional consultation depending upon their degree of cultural "fit."
