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Disalienation
Politics, Philosophy,
and Radical Psychiatry
in Postwar France
Camille Robcis
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Names: Robcis, Camille, author.
Title: Disalienation : politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in
postwar France / Camille Robcis.
Other titles: Politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in postwar
France | Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
Description: Chicago ; London : T e University of Chicago Press,
2021. | Series: Chicago studies in practices of meaning | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identif ers: LCCN 2020046180 | ISBN 9780226777603 (cloth) |
ISBN 9780226777740 (paperback) | ISBN 9780226777887 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Psychotherapy—France—History—20th century. |
Psychiatry—Political aspects—France. | Psychiatry—Philosophy—
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction: A Politics of Madness 1
1: François Tosquelles, Saint- Alban,
and the Invention of
Institutional Psychotherapy 15
2: Frantz Fanon, the Pathologies of Freedom,
and the Decolonization of
Institutional Psychotherapy 48
3: Félix Guattari, La Borde,
and the Search for Anti- oedipal Politics 74
4: Michel Foucault, Psychiatry,
Antipsychiatry, and Power 107
Epilogue: The Hospital as a Laboratory of
Political Invention 143
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Illustrations
Chapter 1
1.1 Postcard of the Saint- Alban Hospital before the war 16
1.2 Institut Pere Mata in Reus, Catalonia, Spain 20
1.3 Postcard of the Camp de Judes in Septfonds 28
1.4 Map of the Camp de Septfonds 29
1.5 François Tosquelles with his assistants at the Septfonds
Camp inf rmary 30
1.6 Portrait of François Tosquelles painted by one of the prisoners
at Septfonds 31
1.7 Transfer order of Tosquelles from Septfonds to Saint- Alban on
December 14, 1939 32
1.8 Tosquelles with co- workers at Saint- Alban 38
1.9 Poster of a theater performance at Saint- Alban in 1977 42
1.10 Editorial by Frantz Fanon in Trait d’union during his residency at
Saint- Alban in March 1953 43
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