An ABC of Psychiatry - The book An ABC of Psychiatry is
the fruit of a collaboration between the artists of the duo NO SOVEREIGN AUTHOR and
patients of the psychiatric day center “La Fabrique du Pré”, located in
Nivelles, Belgium. \n \nThis work, presented in the form of a
dictionary, invites us to rethink the world of psychiatry through the
patient sensitivity. Unpublished and powerful works of art
visual are produced by patients in collaboration with artists and
illustrate each dictionary entry, thus offering an approach
radically new and uninhibited psychiatry. Each word, freed from
historical interpretations, then opens up towards a new reality, more
sensitive, closer to us and to those who live it. Under their hands and under
In our eyes, the scientific lexicon of psychiatry then becomes the language of
heart and soul.
