[The body in motion to cope with the disabled body].

Abstract

An experimental art-mediated psychotherapy workshop is offered to patients who, after a stroke, find their physical and mental capacities diminished. The traumatic experience of this brutal event and the resulting handicaps are a source of psycho-affective disorders that can hinder favorable motor recovery. The workshop's ethnoscenological approach provides an integrative reading of the psychological mechanisms at play, enabling us to work psychologically with the modified body through experiential performative practice and stage exercises that encourage the embodiment of the imaginary.