ABSTRACT
A wide range of interdisciplinary variables influence any cross-cultural therapy with traumatised refugees. The theoretical propositions are thus tried out in a variety of contextual circumstances, and alternative patterns are pursued in order to reach an interdisciplinary, differentiated understanding. The analysis of the research propositions have been conducted separately for each case by relating its data to the particular individual context, that is without pooling across data. Working with refugee clients' trauma stories, the therapist/ researcher can in a clinical setting benefit by borrowing skills from biographers and historians, particularly from the life history or history of mentality approach. Related life course research being carried out in the social sciences tends to focus on patterns of deviation or divergence. The methodological disparities of researching a unicultural psychotherapeutic setting and a cross-cultural one cluster around various points on the axis of particularism/universalism.
