Disalienation : politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in postwar France / Camille Robcis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robcis, Camille, author.

Series:

Chicago studies in practices of meaning.

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago studies in practices of meaning

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--France--History--20th century.

Psychotherapy.

Psychiatry--Political aspects--France.

Psychiatry.

Psychiatry--Philosophy--History--20th century.

France--Intellectual life--20th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.) : 24 halftones

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy Regime's 'soft extermination' let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one psychiatric hospital attempted to resist. Hoarding food with the help of the population, the staff not only worked to keep patients alive but began to rethink the practical and theoretical bases of psychiatric care. The movement that began at Saint-Alban came to be known as 'institutional psychotherapy' and would go on to have a profound influence on postwar French thought. In 'Disalienation', Camille Robcis grapples with the historical, intellectual, and psychiatric meaning of the ethics articulated at Saint-Alban by exploring the movement's key thinkers, including Franȯis Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, Félix Guattari, and Michel Foucault.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction. A Politics of Madness

Chapter 1. François Tosquelles, Saint-Alban, and the Invention of Institutional Psychotherapy

Chapter 2. Frantz Fanon, the Pathologies of Freedom, and the Decolonization of Institutional Psychotherapy

Chapter 3. Félix Guattari, La Borde, and the Search for Anti- oedipal Politics

Chapter 4. Michel Foucault, Psychiatry, Antipsychiatry, and Power

Epilogue. The Hospital as a Laboratory of Political Invention

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 7, 2021).

ISBN:

9780226777887

022677788X

OCLC:

1247671235