The Meaning of Madness Is Explored in a New Book
Professor Camille Robcis takes on politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in postwar France in “Disalienation.” By May 11, 2021 Professor Camille Robcis's new book, "Disalienation," covers the movement known as institutional psychotherapy, which had a profound influence on post-World War II French thought. From 1940 to 1945, 40,000 patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime’s “soft extermination” let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one psychiatric hospital attempted to ...
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