title: [Introduction: ethnopsychiatry].
abstract: This introduction is a literature review of the two major models of intervention in ethnopsychiatry: transcultural psychiatry and ethnopsychoanalysis. After distinction of these two approaches, the authors describe cultural competence considered as the central concept of transcultural psychiatry, followed by a description of the major parameters of ethnopsychoanalytic intervention: foundation, problems related to consultation, operation, role of professionals who refer, principal therapist and co-therapists, translators and finality of this approach.
authors.affiliation: DESS en santé mentale, Teluq (UQAM).
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lecomte
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jama
authors.forename: Giséle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Legault
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003142:Communication; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods; D011572:Psychoanalysis