Based on our experience of the ethnopsychiatric consultation directed by Tobie Nathan in Paris, we try to define the adaptations of the therapeutic setting necessary, according to him, in a transcultural situation, and by whom we can be inspired (work-group, participation of a translator, mobilisation of the traditional etiological interpretations). Then, we study the clinical case of a young Algerian girl living in Belgium. We analyze her acute delirious psychosis following the conceptions of Tobie Nathan: the particular situation of migrant children would be a proneness for the splitting of the ego. At least we show how important is in the psychotherapy the restitution of the original cultural framework.

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psychological aspect methodology human Psychotherapy, Group group therapy Aged language ethnology Mental Disorders mental disease Humans Adolescent male case report female cultural factor psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Therapy Article adult migration Cultural Characteristics Transients and Migrants Child