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(The essay on modesty) (in application for) (bodily autonomy)

          (She lost that case) (on (wide is the gate))  (rhetorically memorable)

                        (Arbiter rise)

(Attracted to) (the most minor) (advantages) (adopting gendered props)

          (Assaying willingness)                       (I notice a certain scarlet letter)

(Dream of a house) (it can’t be mine) (vast roominess)

                        (Dream of a beach) (but it’s a beach with a                 problem)

          (In the smug of your (natural woman))               (I have had (a stain) (a conceit))

                                    (Despite appearances (allegedly))

          (A medical person) (declares the injury a                                     non-emergency)

(The essay on modesty), Krystal Languell

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Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 39 From Disalienation to Collective Care. Institutional Psychotherapy as Resistance.

Madness, Media, Milieus.

Institutional Psychotherapy: Legacy and Constellations of Francesc Tosquelles. (Folk Art Museum)

After Catastrophe: The Video Art of François Pain, Perwana Nazif. (MUBI)

Geo-psychiatry: Media and the Ecologies of Madness, Elena Vogman. Grey Room (2024) (97): 76–117. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00413

Psychotherapy and Materialism
Essays by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury
Edited by Marlon Miguel, Elena Vogman

Radical Philosophy Dossier: Fanon-Tosquelles

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The order of the day is a practice of self-help that unsettles the very idea of ‘the self’, treating it as a communal construction instead of an atomised agent.

The goal of treatment in the asylum is the same as it is on the couch. Tosquelles believed that, whether a patient suffered from psychosis or neurosis, whether he was working-class or bourgeois, his purpose was to become who he really is. This in turn requires ‘a cultural change in worldview’. The point is not to stop being crazy since, on some level, everyone is crazy. The point is to be able to identify what in the world is making you sick, and to begin to reconstruct your personality in opposition to this toxic state of affairs. The self is always collective and so are its ills. We may experience suffering as discrete and private, but chances are that it is historical and, if not exactly public, at least widely felt.

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The ‘cultural change in worldview’ effected by good psychiatric treatment begins here, with the recognition of sex work as a form of social and psychological competence.

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… encouraging sick or even just normally suffering people to make art together

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The asylum became a refuge, but also a place where play and experimentation could happen”

Sous les Asiles, la Plage, Anahid Nersessian. (Serpentine Galleries, 25.02.2026)