[Histoires de comptoir, the bar as a therapeutic tool].

The presence of a bar at the heart of a home for the dependent elderly is a project that benefits everyone - residents, families and care teams. The associations that take charge of this place, which favors social ties, propose innovative organizational methods. Here, psychiatric patients are invited to run the bar, a genuine therapeutic tool.

["Art therapy could have the anthropological aim of opening up to the imagination, as a structuring and anticipatory future of a changing universe"].

Jean-Pierre Klein, honorary hospital psychiatrist and director of the French national institute of expression, creation, art and therapy, describes his discovery of art therapy or how the diversion of the imagination, through contact with the material, enables one to approach and symbolise one's problems without always being able to understand what the symbols evoke. Accompanied symbolisation in art therapy can indeed be sufficient. The evolution, from creation to creation, forms a transformation process without there necessarily being any interpretative deciphering.

["The heart of our mission is to provide emergency shelter, at any time, including weekends"].

The Abri côtier-Urgence Femmes is an association in Concarneau, Brittany, which helps victims of domestic abuse, by offering them shelter and support, 24/7. A former psychiatric nurse and manager, Edith Rivet volunteers for the association, and shares with us her commitment to the cause.