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<p><b>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 39 <a
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Disalienation to Collective Care. Institutional Psychotherapy
as Resistance</a></b><br>
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<i>Discussion with Elena Vogman & Marlon Miguel discussing the
work of François Tosquelles and Jean Oury</i><br>
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Born amidst the ruins of World War II and the shadow of fascist
extermination policies, institutional psychotherapy emerged not
just as a form of mental health care, but as a radical mode of
resistance. At the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in occupied
France, a new approach was forged, one that tore open the walls of
confinement and reimagined the psychiatric institution as a space
for collective transformation. Patients and caregivers, militants
and medics worked together in horizontal structures, creating
group therapies and cooperatives that refused both the
authoritarianism of the clinic and the colonial logic embedded in
psychiatric norms.<br>
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The recent volume <i>Psychotherapy and Materialism</i> brings
this history into sharper view, offering the first English
translations of two key texts by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury
– figures at the core of this movement. A Catalan exile and
anarcho-syndicalist, Tosquelles was instrumental in theorizing the
treatment of the institution as inseparable from the treatment of
psychic suffering. Oury, later founder of the La Borde clinic,
extended this work through experimental practices that would
resonate with – and influence – thinkers like Frantz Fanon, Félix
Guattari, Fernand Deligny, and Anne Querrien. <br>
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Rather than containing madness, institutional psychotherapy opened
a space for its circulation, listening, and expression – what we
might call a politics of disalienation. It unsettles not only
psychiatry but also psychoanalysis, pedagogy, and social practice.
As these ideas echo into today’s crises of care and mental health,
this discussion invites us to think with Tosquelles and Oury: what
would it mean to treat our institutions – and ourselves –
otherwise?<br>
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<b>Bios:</b> Elena Vogman is a scholar of comparative literature
and media. She is Freigeist Fellow and Principal Investigator of
the research project co-principal investigator of the research
project ‘Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in
Postwar Europe’ at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and visiting fellow
at the ICI Berlin. She is the author of two books, <i>Sinnliches
Denken</i>. <i>Eisensteins exzentrische Methode </i>(2018) and
<i>Dance of Values: Sergei Eisenstein’s Capital Project</i>
(2019).<br>
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Marlon Miguel is co-principal investigator of the project
‘Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar
Europe’ at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and visiting fellow at the
ICI Berlin. He holds a double PhD in Fine Arts (Université Paris 8
Vincennes-Saint-Denis) and Philosophy (Federal University of Rio
de Janeiro). His current research focuses on the intersection
between contemporary philosophy, art, media, and psychiatry. He
also practices contemporary circus and does practical movement
research.<br>
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Also available on all the usual podcast platforms.</p>
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