
Un abécédaire de la psychiatrie
- Publisher
- The Eyes Publishing
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 979-10-92727-54-8
- Specifications
- 24 x 32 cm
216 pages
Softcover, OTAbind with a jacket
French and English
Interview between Simon Delobel and No Sovereign Author
Art direction by Bureau Kayser
Three covers available
Shortlisted, Rencontres d’Arles photo-text book prize 2024
The fruit of a collaboration between the duo No Sovereign Author and the patients of the psychiatric day centre La Fabrique du Pré, at Nivelles in Belgium.
Laid out as a dictionary, it invites us to think the world of psychiatry again through the sensibility of the patients. New works of great visual force, made by the patients with the artists, illustrate each entry, proposing a radically fresh and unembarrassed approach. Each word, freed from its historical readings, opens onto a new reality, closer to us and to those who live it: under their hands and before our eyes, the scientific lexicon of psychiatry becomes a language of the heart.