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Jean Claude Rouchy enabled us to think about and develop adequate frameworks and settings in contexts of research and therapy with the foreigner and with the cultural other. The concepts of primary and secondary group belongings, as well as that of incorporated cultural object, developed in the course of European transcultural action-research projects, help us to grapple with the processes mobilized by the intercultural encounter.For Jean Claude Rouchy and the European associations that he founded along with others (the Association Transition; the European Association for Transcultural Group Analysis), the group is the preferred framework for dealing with the relations between the psychic and the cultural psychic. For each intervention and each research project, a particular transcultural group setting must be put in place. These settings allow for the emergence and analysis of the cultural processes that underlie the processes of identification of persons and groups. They make it possible to treat patients who have different cultural and linguistic origins as well as patients whose migratory histories are traumatic, and, more broadly, to treat psychic suffering that is linked to the losses and ruptures of the transmission of sociocultural references.