The city of Marrakesh is the first capital of the tourism in Morocco, because of its cultural and patrimonial wealth. Since these last years, Marrakech displays a rise important of the rate of occupation of its tourist lodging establishments, the French tourism occupies an important community.

In the same way, we noticed, an increase of the number of the foreign nationals hospitalized to the mental hospital Ibn Nafis of Marrakech from where the interest of this retrospective study in order to determine the context of hospitalization, the clinical profile and factors of starting point of the psychiatric illness.

We carried out a retrospective study on a sample of 63 patients between 2000 and 2007, 80% of them were hospitalized; the mean age was 39 years. The two third of these patients met to Marrakech for a tourist journey, 46 % were French, and 12,7% were German. Most these patients were treated; in to pay them of residence for a chronic psychiatric illness. The causes of relapse were a stop of treatment or comsuption of cannabis.

Some problems of legal order, culture, language and adaptation to a different environment have been met, making difficult in charge procedures of repatriation.