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Journal Article 
"Melting-PainTherapy" at the unit for difficult patients, Cadillac city: The patient is an artist! 
Viel, D; Ponchaut, J; Vivien, G; Bouchard, JP; , 
2020 
Yes 
Annales Medico-Psychologiques
ISSN: 0003-4487 
MASSON EDITEUR 
MOULINEAUX CEDEX 9 
192-196 
WOS:000528305200018 
In Melting-PainTherapy workshop, we offer an innovative art therapy activity set in the unit for difficult patients in Cadillac, Gironde, France. Our hospital hosts patients with mental issues that let them, or may lead them, to commit one or more dangerous acts. Organized by nurses with a strong and highly developed artistic sensitivity, it is aimed towards patients who voluntarily participate, once, or more, or on a regular basis to our art project, while working alone with a nurse. In this workshop, the patient is an artist. He gets to create, express himself, realize and manage his possibilities, limitations, frustrations, constraints and relationship to himself and others. The Melting-PainTherapy concept revolves around the elaboration of collective art pieces meant to advance the individuals on rotative canvases. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.