In this keynote lecture given at the 17th GASI Symposium in Berlin, the main ideas informing the clinical work with foreign families and refugees conducted at an ethnopsychiatry clinic in France are outlined. The treatment methodology is described and case examples are presented to illustrate the way in which all healing practices are given serious consideration as valid therapeutic resources within the clinical setting and the importance of putting aside one’s assumptions and knowledge as therapists and caseworkers in order to access the knowledge and practices of people’s ‘natural’ groups in order to negotiate new and creative solutions to previously unknown problems.
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