ABSTRACT
Fostering a patient's ability to solve problems is central in psychosocial rehabilitation. Moreover, as patients undergoing a rehabilitation programme can sometimes still be fragile, paranoid and inhibited, the squiggle seemed to be an appropriate means to encourage playfulness among subjects. In 2004, Daniel Freeman conducted an experiment in which he concluded that psychotic patients with delusional disorders had difficulty in finding alternative solutions to their thoughts and problems. Moreover, Moez Bejaoui and Jean-Louis Pedinielli also carried out an experiment showing that some symptoms in schizophrenia were linked to a deficit in task switching. The group adaptation of the squiggle technique seems to be a relevant means to start working on alternative thinking with psychotic patients. To be selected for the experiment the subjects had to be patients who needed to or wanted to work on one or several of the following capacities: flexibility, fluidity and insight.
