<p>Algeria’s mental health system still bears the scars of a colonial asylum regime that delegitimized indigenous cosmologies and ruptured ties among self, family, community, and the sacred. Drawing on psychological, anthropological, historical, and Islamic literatures, this article reframes those ties as a relational nucleus composed of three interlinked processes: persistent colonial mistrust, the level of dialogical safety that clinicians and communities can co-create, and the degree of spiritual consonance between therapeutic methods and local moral worlds. This article proposes an integrative framework that partners evidence-based psychology with Qur’anic ethics, Amazigh and maraboutic healing, and legal safeguards for patient rights. By rooting assessment and intervention in the relational nucleus, the model aims to deliver epistemic justice, cultural legitimacy, and clinical efficacy, positioning decolonized mental health care as both a therapeutic and societal imperative in postcolonial Algeria.</p>