Psychiatry department and rehabilitation department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University,the Sixth Hospital of Peking University[1]and French Superior Institute of Psychomotor Rehabilitation jointly and successfully held the Sino-French Psychomotor Therapy Training Class in the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University from May 12 to May 14, 2018. Vice President of the First Affiliated Hospital Ma Xiancang hoped to establish the Silk Road of the Sino-French academic exchange taking the training as the beginning of the establishment, which would enable the psychomotor therapy to develop better in China.

The main lectures of the training were given by Brandily André and Sophie Limouzin from the French Superior Institute of Psychomotor Rehabilitation and Professor Wang Huali, Director of the Clinic Research Lab of the Sixth Hospital of Peking University. The training contents covered the history and development of psychomotor therapy (PMT), exercise and sensor skills, emotion and communication, muscular tension and emotional disorder, Soubiran psychomotor and the mind and body relaxation therapy training, psychomotor therapy (PMT) application in geriatric cognitive disorder patients, PMT application in adult mental disease field.

The trainees were mainly the medical workers of rehabilitation department, neurology department and psychiatry department of the hospital, and the physicians, rehabilitation therapists and nurses from 28 cooperative hospitals inside and outside the province. Over 80 medical workers participated in the training and 77 of them passed the tests and were awarded certificates by President Ma Xiancang, Teacher Brandily André and Teacher Sophie Limouzin from the French Superior Institute of Psychomotor Rehabilitation.

After the training was over, the French guests visited the headquarters and Xingshan Temple Area of our hospital, had a formal discussion and conducted exchange with some workers from the psychiatry department and rehabilitation department of our hospital. They highly evaluated the rehabilitation work being done by the psychiatry department and the rehabilitation department. The training greatly improved the psychomotor therapy knowledge and skills of the medical workers in our hospital and the surrounding area and effectively promoted the development of rehabilitation medicine in Shaanxi Province.