{"id":708729,"date":"2026-06-01T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708729\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:03:08","slug":"patients-find-help-with-therapy-donkeys-at-psychiatric-hospital-near-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/708729\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients find help with therapy donkeys at psychiatric hospital near Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"EB6ASYKLJ5E3JMNAHYVSKOKDUI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">NEUILLY-SUR-MARNE, France \u2014 Therapy donkeys are helping patients with mental health conditions recover in a psychiatric hospital unit outside Paris that\u2019s unique to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/france\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"S3VEO2USVZDKZCQD3O25WV33FI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The 19th century farm buildings and wooded surroundings are a haven within the Ville-Evrard hospital complex in Neuilly-sur-Marne. On Friday, patients took the five donkeys for a walk and cared for them. Some confidently lifted their hooves to remove dirt. Many ended the session with a hug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEUILLY-SUR-MARNE, France \u2014 Therapy donkeys are helping patients with mental health conditions recover in a psychiatric hospital unit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1313,64,63,344648,482,137,490,514,515,30746,1346],"class_list":["post-708729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-animals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eu-france-donkey-therapy","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychotherapy","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}