Tools for a political psychiatry

Reivew of Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom

Ibrahim Khayar ~ RP 2.08 (Autumn 2020), pp. 87–91 ~ Review

Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom, eds. Jean Khalfa and Robert J. C. Young, trans. Stephen Corcoran (London: Bloomsbury, 2018). 816pp., £30.00 hb., 978 1 47425 021 4 It is often taken for granted in the psychiatric field that the time for contestation has passed. Terms like ‘anti-psychiatry’ and ‘institutional therapy’, as well as discussions of […]

Mental Illness as a Moral Concept

Sean Sayers ~ RP 005 (Summer 1973) ~ Article

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• mEDTAllllDESS AS A mORAL [OD[EPT ………………………. SEAnSAVERS (, The concept of mental illness has been the subject of heated controversy in recent years; and this debate has caught the attention of a wide public. The reason for this is not simply that the debate has sometimes been conducted in heated terms; but, more importantly, […]

Jean Oury: The hospital is ill

Jean Oury, Mauricio Novello and David Reggio ~ RP 143 (May/Jun 2007) ~ Interview

Interview jean oury The hospital is ill The name of Jean Oury is synonymous with La Borde Clinic, which he founded in 1953 when he was twenty-nine, in an old chateau in the picturesque region of Cour-Cheverny, as a home for ʻinstitutional psychotherapyʼ. In the Englishspeaking world, La Borde and the practice of institutional psychotherapy […]