[Words that speak well to pains]. / Des mots qui parlent bien aux maux.

Cross-cultural consultation often uses metaphors. These promote narration, facilitate the therapeutic alliance, and allow psychic elaborations that release our patients' pains. The terms and conditions of their use, as well as their purposes, are more and more determined. They draw from imagination and therapists' lived experiences, in classical stories, in tales and fables from various cultures. This gives them real therapeutic potential, which must be learned to use.

[At the heart of the transcultural psychotherapy of a traumatised unaccompanied minor with psychosis]. / Au cœur de la psychothérapie transculturelle d'un mineur non accompagné psychotique et traumatisé.

Transcultural consultations receive unaccompanied minors experiencing psychological distress as a result of their personal history in their country of origin, their harrowing journey until their arrival in France and their vulnerable situation. Presentation of the mental health pathway and identity issues of one of these young unaccompanied foreigners, and asylum seeker.

['Child witches', analysis of a cultural countertransference]. / Les enfants dits "sorciers", analyse d'un contre-transfert culturel.

The question of "child witches" is a tropism of the transcultural clinic. Caring for these children is a real clinical challenge. It goes beyond the subjectivity of the teenager to include the adults around him or her and the cultural representations which inhabit them. It also addresses the effects of migration, the psychological frailties of the adults and their traditional theories. This reflection shows the decentering work which clinicians need to do.

[Different perspectives of educational systems with a cross-cultural assessment]. / Regards croisés entre systèmes éducatifs lors d'une expertise transculturelle.

In the framework of cross-cultural assessments, the nursing team is instructed by the family court judge to provide a clinical assessment taking into account the cultural dimension of the young person concerned. The aim is also to define appropriate psychoeducational support for certain migrant families, notably those describing a brutal confrontation between the educational worlds of here and elsewhere. The situation of a Togolese family, whose adolescent daughter is taken into care due to a practice judged to be abuse in France, is analysed in order to provide some keys to understanding and to discuss the anthropological aspects relevant to the educational and psychological care.