La Devinière is an institutional psychotherapy center founded in 1976. It is located in an old farm, in Farciennes, near Charleroi.
Originaly, the center was made to host nineteen children from varied backgrounds. Some were abandoned, others turned down from psychiatric centers and other lived locked inside for many years. All were heavily medicated.
At La Devinière, I met free men and women. Even if some are still slightly medicated, it is not to make the educators’ work easier, but rather to help reduce the patient’s psychoses. Furthermore there is no attempt to classify them by disease: psychotic, schizophrenic or hyperkinetic ... At La Devinière, therapies have no borders!
Over the years, the number of residents has increased. Under social constraint, some have had to return to psychiatric center, others have left and live more or less independently, but for most, the Devinière is their home.
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