The psychopathology and cross/transcultural clinical psychology is a current among many others (psychopathology of the transplantation, ethno psychiatry, clinic of the exile, transcultural psychiatry, cross-cultural psychology…) but it is not sufficiently identified. This current gives a large place to culture but it favours the person in its originality and its ability to bounce, to transform its reality, its environment and its culture. It relies on the cultural reference points of patients, at the same time for understanding their universe of mental representations, for feeling the content of their thoughts and their affects, and to use them as therapeutic levers. The person remains at the center of a clinical preoccupation and therapeutic work.

 The aim of the International Days is to begin a work on the delimitation of the specificities of this current in relation to the other currents cited above, at a moment when psychiatry tries to take a strong position about transculturality. Furthermore, the recognition of the cultural dimension by the authors of the DSM-IV-TR, at the levels of diagnostic assessment as well as of the therapeutic approach (see especially Appendix I p.1015) can encourage researchers-clinicians in the field of cross and transcultural clinical psychology to position themselves, and make their approach - which continues to prove its pertinency - more visible.

Moreover, the psychopathology and cross/transcultural clinical psychology suffers, in France and in Europe, from a significant lack of research methodologies and tools (tests, scales,..) appropriate to the problems posed by the exile and (shock) encounters between cultural benchmarks (standards, values, beliefs) sometimes irreconcilable. This often leads to written productions of varying scientific qualities, and also to diagnostic evaluations whose educational and therapeutic orientations are ill-adapted. The objective of the international days is also to promote the construction of a network of partners with the aim of, in one hand, gathering the maximum of research and evaluation tools in this field, and in the other hand, exchanging about the different clinical practices. Thus, to permit the realisation of this innovatour project it is also necessary to make visible the approaches in psychopathology and inter / transcultural clinical psychology with the help of partners with national and international reputation, as well as through rigorous and regular scientific meetings.

Organising Committee: Dhouha Ben Hadj-Lakhdar, Stéphane Boiron, Vera Tsenova (coordinatrice), Abdessalem Yahyaoui (Supervisor).