Abstract Argues that a symptomatic and syndromic evolution in psychiatry seems to follow sociocultural changes in Maghreb. Migration can be used, as in an experimental model, as an indicator of the evolutional tendencies in Maugrabin psychopathology. Oral and spontaneous expressions of culpability feelings in depression among migrant patients, preceding a similar evolution in the Maghreb countries, are psychopathologically analyzed. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)