Tosquelles
Healing Institutions
$44.89
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2026
Summary
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 psychotherap…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635902556 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 163590255X |
| Author: | Joana Maso, Robert Hurley, Mara Faye Lethem |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 692g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 165mm x 238mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents |
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Joana Maso
Francesc Tosquelles (1912–1994) was an avant-garde psychiatrist. Born in Catalonia, he fled to exile in Southern France during the Spanish Civil War. From 1940 to 1962, Tosquelles worked at the Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole psychiatric hospital in Lozère, where he pioneered the revolutionary, nonhierarchical practices of “institutional psychotherapy.” In 2021–24, Tosquelles’s work was the subject of a touring retrospective exhibition at the Abattoirs, Musée–Frac Occitanie Toulouse; the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB); the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), New York.
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