The nurses in the unit for difficult patients at Cadillac hospital have developed an innovative art therapy concept: Melting-Pain Therapy. In this workshop patients produce a collective piece of art created through participants' individual sessions with a nurse. These patients are exclusively men, suffering mainly from schizophrenia, who have been or who are potentially dangerous. The photographs accompanying this article show some examples of these art brut creations.
Keywords: art brut; art therapy; art-thérapie; dangerosité; dangerousness; melting-pain therapy; psychose; psychosis; schizophrenia; schizophrénie; unit for difficult patients; unité pour malades difficiles.
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