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For several periods since 1971, Preben Stig Madsen has been admitted to this hospital and received psychotherapy.
Head Psychiatrist Torben Bendix recommended that Preben Stig Madsen start painting. Preben Stig Madsen found that expressing himself in painting helped with his anxiety and heavy thoughts.
Preben Stig Madsen expresses it in these terms “to paint can function as correcting my perception of reality, and as an investigation into my own world of perception. Furthermore a diminishing of anxiety and dark thoughts can happen”.
Another tool to conquer difficult emotions and trains of dark thoughts Preben Stig Madsen uses is drawing. He concentrates on drawing the thermo flask on his desk and filling the rest of the page with small scribbles. He sometimes refers to this as his knitting.
Today Preben Stig Madsen works as head of the open painting workshop at this hospital. The workshop is for people admitted to the hospital who are well enough to attend on their own. Also people with psychiatric illnesses who live outside the hospital but are still assigned to the psychiatric system can attend the workshop.