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Tosquelles: Healing Institutions

Tosquelles: Healing Institutions

Hurley, Robert
Lethem, Mara Faye
Maso, Joana

Paperback

Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents

Medical ReferenceFolk & Outsider ArtFrench History

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 163590255X
ISBN13: 9781635902556
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
A landmark anthology of Francesc Tosquelles's intellectual, clinical, and political writings, many available in English translation for the first time.

Often consigned to legend, the life of Francesc Tosquelles reads as an adventure story of clinical, political, and collective experimentation around healing institutions. Joining the Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole psychiatric hospital in Nazi-occupied France, Tosquelles invented what would become institutional psychotherapy with poets, film critics, photographers, and psychiatrists including Jean Oury, Agnès Masson, Frantz Fanon, Tristan Tzara, and Paul Éluard.

This first anthology of Tosquelles's writings shines a light on his forgotten history, from his engagement as a psychiatrist during the Spanish Civil War alongside anti-Franquist and anti-Stalinist communists, to his progressive return to Catalonia following his role in the cultural revolution of institutional psychotherapy in France. Through translations of texts never before available in English, Tosquelles's powerful voice reminds us how important politicized relations to institutions are in our times of sick institutions, scapegoating of strangers, and globalized war.

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