Atelier: Learning with Madness. François Tosquelles and the Invention of Institutional Psychotherapy
Project information
submitted by
Elena Vogman & Marlon Miguel
Co-Authors
Carles Guerra, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Emmanuel Almborg, Felix Brieden, Henning Schmidgen, Sophie Legrain
Mentors
Elena Vogman & Marlon Miguel
Faculty:
Media
Degree programme:
Media Studies (Master of Arts (M.A.)),
Media Studies (Bachelor of Arts (B.A.))
Type of project presentation
Research project
Semester
Summer semester 2022
- Berkaer Straße 1
- Burgplatz 1 - vor ACC Galerie
- Berkaer Straße 1
- Burgplatz 1 - vor ACC Galerie
Links
http://www.uni-weimar.de/madness...
Contributors:
Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe
Project description
Institutional Psychotherapy was a psychiatric reform movement and method. It employed innovative forms of group therapy and radically restructured the model of centralized psychiatric institutions, actively involving patients in these processes. It emerged as a practice of resistance during the German occupation of France, as over 50,000 patients of psychiatric hospitals fell prey to the National Socialist extermination policy. The Saint-Alban Clinic in Lozère was the point of departure for the Institutional Psychotherapy, initiated by the Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles together with resistance fighters and authors such as Georges Canguilhem and Paul Eluard. Media practices constituted concrete local forms of resistance: resistance both to the normalizing politics of traditional clinical institutions as well as to the disciplining of madness and its delineation from political, aesthetic, and epistemic dimensions.
Including a presentation of films and a series of talks by international scholars, the two-day workshop located in the Berkaerstraße 1 and ACC Galerie aims at exploring Tosquelles’ multidimensional practice, giving special attention to media as therapeutic instruments and processes of transference.
Email: elena.vogman[at]uni-weimar.de
Files and presentations
Exhibition Location / Event Location
Events
Learning with Madness. Screening and discussion with Carles Guerra Atelier: Learning with Madness. François Tosquelles and the Invention of Institutional Psychotherapy
- Begin: 18:00 pm
- End: 21:00 pm
- Location: ACC Galerie (Burgplatz 1, 99423 Weimar)
Learning with Madness. Series of talks by international scholars Atelier: Learning with Madness. François Tosquelles and the Invention of Institutional Psychotherapy
- Begin: 10:00 am
- End: 17:30 pm
- Location: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Berkaer Straße 1, 99425 Weimar)