Camille Robcis Disalienation (Paperback) Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning

Description: Further DetailsTitle: DisalienationCondition: NewEAN: 9780226777740ISBN: 9780226777740Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/03/2021Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 28mmAuthor: Camille RobcisLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar FranceISBN-10: 022677774XDescription: 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 François Tosquelles, Frantz Fanon, Félix 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of MeaningGenre: HistoryItem Weight: 286gRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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