Healing Institutions

A landmark anthology of Francesc Tosquelles's intellectual, clinical, and political writings, many available in English translation for the first time. Often consigned to legend, the life of Francesc Tosquelles reads as an adventure story of clinical, political, and collective experimentation around healing institutions. Joining the Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole psychiatric hospital in Nazi-occupied France, Tosquelles invented what would become “institutional psychotherapy” with poets, film critics,