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Talk by Marlon Miguel: « Preuve du réel » : situations relationnelles entre l’art et la clinique, February 21, 2025

Join us on February 21, 2025, at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (École des arts de la Sorbonne, Room 440, 47 rue des Bergers, 75015 Paris) for a talk by Marlon Miguel as part of the symposium Lygia Clark et les pédagogies d’artistes.

Excerpt from the abstract: "Unlike certain interpretations of Lygia Clark’s work that suggest a radical break between an "artistic" phase and a "clinical" one, this presentation aims to demonstrate that, on the contrary, art, the clinic, and relationality have always been central to her approach. A striking example of this continuity is Pedra e ar, Clark’s first sensory object, which later gave rise to the relational objects. This object was developed following a car accident and a resulting fracture she suffered. From that moment on, her research on objects became characterized by an intimate connection between the body, the object, and the healing process."

Book Launch in New York: Psychotherapy and Materialism

Join us on Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 7:00 PM at The Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis (81 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY) for an evening exploring the radical legacies of institutional psychotherapy with the launch of "Psychotherapy and Materialism: Essays by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury" (ICI Berlin Press, 2024). This volume presents the first English translations of two seminal texts by Tosquelles and Oury, pioneers who redefined psychiatry as a collective, socially engaged practice.

Co-Editor Elena Vogman will be joined by Perwana Nazif and Christopher Landry to discuss the book’s themes and the enduring impact of institutional psychotherapy today.

Now Online: Mental Ecologies of Images

Three talks of the online series “Mental Ecologies of Images”, that took place in December 2023, are now available to stream online in our video archive. Co-organized by Elena Vogman, Pawel Moscicki, and Olexii Kuchanskyi, the series consisted in encounters with theorists and scholars working on the subjects related with contemporary visual culture at the intersection with postcolonial discourse, information technology, and critical psychiatry.
Marlon Miguel shares his research on "Images of the Unconscious. Nise da Silveira’s Ecological Psychiatry", Angela Melitopoulos explores "Cine(so)Matic Cartographies", and Matteo Pasquinelli discusses "Mind Ecology in the Age of AI and Knowledge Extractivism".

Hot Off the Press: Psychotherapy and Materialism. Essays by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury

We are delighted to announce the publication of "Psychotherapy and Materialism", edited by Marlon Miguel and Elena Vogman as part of the project "Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe". The volume features the first English translations of pivotal texts by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury, co-founders of institutional psychotherapy—a revolutionary movement born during World War II in resistance to confinement systems reminiscent of colonial and totalitarian practices. Grounded in materialist and collective approaches to mental health, institutional psychotherapy reimagined psychiatric care through the ‘treatment of the institution’ itself. The book is available as an open access publication by ICI Press and can be found following the link.

Conference: Psychoanalysis, Schizoanalysis, and Pluralism: Perspectives From Latin America

We are excited to announce that Elena Vogman and Marlon Miguel will be speaking at the conference Psychoanalysis, Schizoanalysis, and Pluralism: Perspectives From Latin America, taking place on November 30, 2024. Elena Vogman will present "Bichos, or Undoing Institutions with Lygia Clark and Stella Do Patrocínio", while Marlon Miguel will deliver his talk "Against the Police-related Psychiatry: Stella Do Patrocínio's Falatório". Click "more" for the full conference schedule as well as a Zoom link for online participation.

Upcoming Book Launch: Instituting Care, 11 Dec 2024 , 19:00

Join us for the launch of "Psychotherapy and Materialism" (ICI Berlin Press, 2024), featuring the first English translations of two key texts by institutional psychotherapy inventors François Tosquelles and Jean Oury. On this occasion, we are very happy to welcome Joana Masó, whose research and exhibitions on Tosquelles and institutional psychotherapy have helped to reshape understandings of psychiatry, politics, and art. Masó will be joined by editors Marlon Miguel and Elena Vogman to explore the legacies of this movement, from resisting a policy of extermination of the mentally ill at Saint-Alban hospital to influencing figures like Frantz Fanon. The event will take place on Wednesday, December 11, 19:00, at ICI Berlin. If you wish to attend, please register on the ICI Berlin website.

Colloquium: The Unconscious in the Wake of Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant

On Wednesday, November 6, Marlon Miguel, co-PI of the project "Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe", will deliver a presentation entitled "Colonial Depersonalization: Frantz Fanon’s Clinical Work in extremis".
Marlon's talk as well as other contributions to the colloquium "The Unconscious in the Wake of Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant" organized by David Ventura and Holden M. Rasmussen at Newcastle University can be attended online. Please register on the event's website linked here.

Colloquium: Deligny et Lacan: cartographies inédites

On Saturday, September 28th, Marlon Miguel, co-PI of the project "Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe", and Sandra Àlvarez de Toledo will present a talk entitled "Les cartes et les Choses".

Their presentation will take place within the framework of a series of reading workshops around the works of Deligny and Lacan organized and moderated by Verónica Diez. For further information, visit the linked page of École lacanienne.