Healing words: French psychiatric hospital turns to poetry to relieve distress

The team quickly realised many of the most vulnerable did not speak good French, and so began adding actors from different backgrounds, eventually operating in 23 different languages. Photo: AFP

Cooped up every day by the pandemic, 79-year-old Francoise is tired of looking at the tower blocks outside her window."There's not much greenery," she says.

Luckily, her "doctor" for the day has the right medicine.