Associated with the clinical experiences of working with patients in foreign societies, or working with minority groups, literature on intercultural psychotherapy began to appear in the 1960s. ... These generalizations may sometimes lead people to forget that cultural elements contribute to how a patient communicates and thus expresses distress. ... By using this as a criteria to define a "healthy personality," many important elements in psychotherapy in regard to a cultural population are ignored which creates cultural inconsistencies. ...

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