Uh, I'm so excited to read this text by Elena (Vogman) about the environmental approach to psychotherapy in the context of Francesc Tosquelles, Lucien Bonnafé and others – resisting against Fascism and Nazism in the 1940s in France. So many good things in here, I don't even know where to begin.
"To overcome the concentrationary model of the clinic, its politics of space had to be rethought, an approach that would later find an important echo in Foucault’s critique of institutions. In this way, the spatial dimension was reconceptualized as a medium of the social, while social interventions remediated relations to the environment and geography. Whereas psychiatry before this moment had operated by withdrawing the patient from their environment, geo-psychiatry accentuated its own practice on the reconstruction and restitution of those living milieus. 'The asylum was no longer a closed structure' Tosquelles affirmed, 'but something dialectically incidental to the concrete movement of the very place of origin and belonging of the patients.'"
