Surprise Castle
Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France

Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France - Paperback

$39.99
Quantity
01

Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with

Availability:In StockContributor:Camille RobcisSeries:Chicago Studies in Practices of MeaningPublish date:2021-05-03Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226777740ISBN-10:022677774XUPC:9780226777740Book Category:History, Psychology, MedicalBook Subcategory:Europe, History, PsychiatryBook Topic:FranceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCSEFZAHQK
From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime's "soft extermination" let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one psychiatric hospital attempted to resist. Hoarding food with the help of the local population, the staff not only worked to keep patients alive but began to rethink the practical and theoretical bases of psychiatric care. The movement that began at Saint-Alban came to be known as institutional psychotherapy and would go on to have a profound influence on postwar French thought.

In Disalienation, Camille Robcis grapples with the historical, intellectual, and psychiatric meaning of the ethics articulated at Saint-Alban by exploring the movement's key thinkers, including Fran?ois Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, F?lix Guattari, and Michel Foucault. Anchored in the history of one hospital, Robcis's study draws on a wide geographic context-revolutionary Spain, occupied France, colonial Algeria, and beyond-and charts the movement's place within a broad political-economic landscape, from fascism to Stalinism to postwar capitalism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226777740ISBN-10:022677774XUPC:9780226777740Book Category:History, Psychology, MedicalBook Subcategory:Europe, History, PsychiatryBook Topic:FranceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCSEFZAHQK
Camille Robcis is associate professor of French and history at Columbia University. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Contributor(s)

Camille Robcis

Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.

Recently Viewed

View All