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We are delighted to announce the publication of "Psychotherapy and Materialism", edited by Marlon Miguel and Elena Vogman as part of the project "Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe". The volume features the first English translations of pivotal texts by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury, co-founders of institutional psychotherapy—a revolutionary movement born during World War II in resistance to confinement systems reminiscent of colonial and totalitarian practices. Grounded in materialist and collective approaches to mental health, institutional psychotherapy reimagined psychiatric care through the ‘treatment of the institution’ itself. The book is available as an open access publication by ICI Press and can be found following the link.

We are excited to announce that Elena Vogman and Marlon Miguel will be speaking at the conference Psychoanalysis, Schizoanalysis, and Pluralism: Perspectives From Latin America, taking place on November 30, 2024. Elena Vogman will present "Bichos, or Undoing Institutions with Lygia Clark and Stella Do Patrocínio", while Marlon Miguel will deliver his talk "Against the Police-related Psychiatry: Stella Do Patrocínio's Falatório". Click "more" for the full conference schedule as well as a Zoom link for online participation.

Join us for the launch of "Psychotherapy and Materialism" (ICI Berlin Press, 2024), featuring the first English translations of two key texts by institutional psychotherapy inventors François Tosquelles and Jean Oury. On this occasion, we are very happy to welcome Joana Masó, whose research and exhibitions on Tosquelles and institutional psychotherapy have helped to reshape understandings of psychiatry, politics, and art. Masó will be joined by editors Marlon Miguel and Elena Vogman to explore the legacies of this movement, from resisting a policy of extermination of the mentally ill at Saint-Alban hospital to influencing figures like Frantz Fanon. The event will take place on Wednesday, December 11, 19:00, at ICI Berlin. If you wish to attend, please register on the ICI Berlin website.

On Wednesday, November 6, Marlon Miguel, co-PI of the project "Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe", will deliver a presentation entitled "Colonial Depersonalization: Frantz Fanon’s Clinical Work in extremis".
Marlon's talk as well as other contributions to the colloquium "The Unconscious in the Wake of Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant" organized by David Ventura and Holden M. Rasmussen at Newcastle University can be attended online. Please register on the event's website linked here.

On Saturday, September 28th, Marlon Miguel, co-PI of the project "Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe", and Sandra Àlvarez de Toledo will present a talk entitled "Les cartes et les Choses".

Their presentation will take place within the framework of a series of reading workshops around the works of Deligny and Lacan organized and moderated by Verónica Diez. For further information, visit the linked page of École lacanienne.

We're happy to announce that Elena Vogman's "Geo-psychiatry: Media and the Ecologies of Madness" has just been published in Grey Room's Fall 2024 issue. The text is now available online on Grey Room's website and can be downloaded as a pdf-file.

On Thursday, September 19, Elena Vogman will present a talk about "Sex-Pol en acte. Faschismus und Begehren im Blick der Institutionellen Analyse in Frankreich um 1970" (Sex-Pol en acte. Fascism and Desire in the perspective of institutional analysis in France around 1970) in the framework of a workshop on theories of fascism that takes place from September 18–20, 2024 at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI).

Join us for "The Mismeasure of Mind: Models of Intelligence and the Politics of Madness" workshop on June 26-27, 2024 at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. This event explores the often forgotten "continuous and mutual influences" of the history of philosophy, the history of AI, and the history and politics of madness. Elena Vogman, PI of »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe«, will speak about "Colonial Architecture of Normativity: Fanon and Images from the Blida-Joinville Clinic".

Elena Vogman, PI of the project »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe« will be in Tarragona, Spain for a workshop delving into the connections of psy-disciplines and primitivism in postcolonial times. Her talk entitled "The Aesthetics and Politics of Madness Against Primitivism (with Tosquelles and Fanon)" will take place on Thursday, June 20. She will focus on Frantz Fanon’s re-working of “social therapy” at the psychiatric clinic of Blida-Joinville against the racist and primitivist doctrine of the Algiers School.

We are thrilled to announce that Camilla Caglioti is joining our research project »Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe« at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Camilla will be developing a research project on Frantz Fanon’s work and its connections to the French psychothérapie institutionnelle and Italian psichiatria democratica.