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Review of "Psychotherapy and Materialism: Essays by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury" by Janna Graham on e-flux notes
‘Alienation here is understood not as an individual phenomena but as based on social relations born from the “inter-projection” of private property. […] It is with this notion of alienation in mind that Tosquelles rejects a therapeutic practice based on an interiorized understanding of consciousness, arguing instead that the “the patient’s concrete society is itself the sick individual.” Treatment must consist in the “dis-alienation of the total fact of madness: the sick person, the asylum, and the psychiatrist at once.”’
Thank you Janna Graham for your subtle and extensive discussion of Psychotherapy and Materialism: Essays by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury, edited by Marlon Miguel and Elena Vogman with ICI Press Berlin on e-flux notes. Read the review in two parts: