| Summary: | The article presents the fundamental concepts of the French ethnopsychiatric model and proposes some etiopathogenic hypotheses about origins and development of drug addiction. It explores cultural specificity focusing on the various disease representations spread in different countries: single individuals, family, community, forefathers, God and the relationship with nature are involved even in drug addiction. The model for the first steps of consultation with foreign drug addicts suggested here is aimed at the acceptation of patient’s life contexts, where the meaning relation connecting them is to be found linking family history, rich in images and emotions, with individual migration project and personal experience. The challenge is in the capability to move towards the other and then come back, enriched by a new, little, empatethic “mental voyage”.
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