Coming Soon to
The Darwin International Film Festival
Coming Soon to
The Darwin International Film Festival
The Adamant is moored on Quai de la Rapée, on the right bank of the Seine, a stone's throw from the Gare de Lyon railway station. It is a "day centre" and part of the Paris Central Psychiatric Group, which also includes two CMPs (Centres Médicaux Psychologiques – Psychological Medical Centres), a mobile team, and two units within the Esquirol psychiatric hospital – famous in the past as the
Charenton asylum – which in turn is attached to the Saint-Maurice hospital complex.
Therefore, this is not an isolated place because the interlinked units that make up the group form a
network in which patients and carers are constantly on the move, each one able to build up his or her own cartography and so find an individual solution among the different elements on offer. With large bay windows opening onto the Seine, the Adamant is a wooden building with a surface
area of 650 m2. The architects who designed it worked closely with the carers and the sectors' patients. It opened in July 2010.
As public psychiatric care in France is divided into sectors, the Adamant, along with the other reception centres in the Paris Central Group, is dedicated to patients from the first four arrondissements of the capital.