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In Dakar, psychiatric patients attend regular art therapy classes to help treat mental disorders.
在達喀爾，精神病患者定期參加藝術治療課程來治療精神疾病。
The therapy can be a useful technique to complement traditional forms of psychotherapy.
這種療法是一種可以彌補傳統形式的精神療法不足的有效方法。
Psychiatrists in the Senegalese capital's main hospital see it as an essential part of the healing process.
在塞內加爾首都的大醫院里的精神科醫生將其視為治愈過程的一個必要部分。
Art as psychotherapy is still relatively new in Senegal.
在塞內加爾將藝術作為一種療法仍屬罕見。
Dr. Tabara Sylla, the hospital's chief psychiatrist, uses art therapy,
塔巴拉·西拉醫生，該醫院的精神病主治醫師，在給她的患者治療各種病癥時用到了藝術治療，
medication and classical forms of psychotherapy in her practice,
冥想以及傳統的精神療法，
treating everything from chronic depression to alcohol abuse and schizophrenia.
這些病癥包括慢性抑郁、酗酒以及精神分裂。
At first the project started as a way to keep patients busy in the afternoon,
剛開始時，這種方式只是為了讓患者在下午有事可做，
rather than have them sitting around smoking.
不只是閑坐著抽煙。
It soon became clear that art was creating a communication bridge between patient and doctor.
但是很快醫生發現藝術在患者與病人之間搭建起了一個溝通的橋梁。
More and more now, she says, art workshops have become essential therapy
她說，現在藝術學習班作為一種療法變得越來越不可或缺，
so much that she cannot imagine this psychiatric unit without them.
她甚至不敢想象精神科如果沒有它會是什么情景。
