Welcome to Litsy!

Patients & staff live together in a psychiatric institution in rural France called La Chesnaie. Doctors do their thing; everyone else contributes to day-to-day operations, like cooking, cleaning & entertainment. Graphic novelists Ducoudray & Pourquié document what it‘s like hanging out there, not knowing who‘s staff & who‘s a patient without having a conversation. Most patients are well enough to live on their own after a year. A good system!

No, we don‘t cure them … but just because they can‘t be cured doesn‘t mean they can‘t have good lives! Getting treatment makes it possible to reduce or suppress their delusions. Then, we have to fill the void left by the absence of symptoms with an activity.