... exist before making an attempt to bridge one culture with another. It happens too often that a dominant culture tries to deny that these cultural differences do exist. Maiello (1999) establishes that for cross-cultural psychotherapy to be considerate of the patient's 'otherness,' the therapist's listening function must include a 'translation' of the specific meanings of cultural aspects from the patients 'language' into his own ... may believe that it is better to match a patient with a therapist who shares the same ethnocultural background. Tseng (1999) believes that the...

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