[Hidden interpersonal structures in medical and psychotherapy interaction with foreign patients--presented and discussed with the example of a Turkish patient with chronic pain].

Doctors an psychotherapists often are confronted with many difficulties in the treatment of migrant workers with psychosomatic complaints: differences in language, social class, ethnicity and cultural origin take influence on the genesis of illness and the diagnostical and therapeutic processes. In a project for development of psychosomatic treatment of Turkish migrant workers and their families, psychotherapy was carried out with the help of Turkish translaters. A course of treatment of a Turkish out-patient suffering from chronical pain syndrome is recorded with regard to the transference, countertransference, possibilities and bounds of cross-cultural psychotherapy with migrant workers.