Philosophers, Carers, and Psychodramatic Games.

When we were working with this patient, whom we named Damien, we were working in a psychiatric clinic where patients are hospitalized for several months or even years. Binswanger ran a sanatorium in Switzerland (the Bellevue Clinic) and took in patients suffering from this type of psychological pathology. The aim of the article was to present how the encounter in psychodrama can act, how it is constitutive of the self for a psychotic patient, and how it is essential to relaunch a blocked existence. [Extracted from the article]