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Group-based transcultural consultation (TC) has been proposed as a setting able to temporarily sustain mentalization.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We report the case of Gloria, a young Kinyarwanda-speaking Congolese woman (Banyamulenge) followed since late adolescence after hospitalization for chronic disabling pain with somatoform features alongside ongoing investigation of possible autoimmune findings. Seven TC sessions were conducted between December 2024 and November 2025 at the Maison de Solenn (Cochin Hospital, Paris). The integral verbatim of each session and of the post-session team debriefings was analyzed by the first author under senior-author supervision, using the transcultural analytical framework developed by Maherzi et al. (2024) to identify therapeutic levers. The presentation follows the CARE guidelines.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Gloria\u2019s clinical picture had been shaped by pre-existing somatic and school-related difficulties since childhood, subsequently compounded by a traumatic rupture at age 13\u2014abrupt separation from her mother and three siblings during the South-Kivu conflict\u2014followed by forced migration and 6\u202fyears of family separation before reunification in 2023. Three therapeutic processes became visible across the sessions: a movement from a frozen body-bound symptom toward a shared narrative; a movement from mother-daughter affective indifferentiation toward incipient symbolic separation, mediated by the cultural image of the\n                      <jats:italic>pagne<\/jats:italic>\n                      (a wax-print cloth of West and Central African tradition carrying meanings of feminine identity and maternal transmission); and the emergence of culturally meaningful representations (Addolorata, Ubuntu, the \u201cpages paires et impaires\u201d\u2014the even and odd pages of a shared family history).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The group\n                      <jats:italic>dispositif<\/jats:italic>\n                      may be read as a temporary mentalizing envelope in which intergenerational suffering can be progressively named, differentiated and inscribed in a shared cultural and family narrative.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1933126","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,11]],"date-time":"2026-09-11T05:29:57Z","timestamp":1789104597000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Case Report: From somatic pain to shared narrative\u2014mentalization and intergenerational trauma in a transcultural group consultation"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Iolanda","family":"Faustino","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Hospital D. 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