Havenaar J M
Department of Ambulatory and Social Psychiatry, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Psychother Psychosom. 1990;53(1-4):8-13. doi: 10.1159/000288333.
Culture, defined as a system of beliefs, values and behavioral patterns, plays an important role in psychotherapy, albeit a role that most psychotherapeutic theories hardly acknowledge. Psychotherapeutic and anthropological research over the last few decades has indicated that common beliefs concerning illness and cure shared by therapist and patient are a central factor in determining illness behavior and outcome of therapy. In fact, such belief systems may account for up to 60% of therapeutic efficacy. Psychotherapy thus appears by and large to be healing by culture. Training programs in psychotherapy should therefore pay more attention to the role of culture.
文化被定义为一种信仰、价值观和行为模式的体系，它在心理治疗中发挥着重要作用，尽管这一作用在大多数心理治疗理论中几乎未得到承认。过去几十年的心理治疗和人类学研究表明，治疗师和患者共有的关于疾病和治愈的共同信念是决定疾病行为和治疗结果的核心因素。事实上，这种信念体系可能占到治疗效果的60%。因此，心理治疗在很大程度上似乎是通过文化来治愈的。因此，心理治疗培训项目应该更加关注文化的作用。
