[Melting-Pain Therapy for difficult mental health patients]. / L'activité Melting-pain therapy pour les malades mentaux difficiles.

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.