Acknowledgments

This book would not have been possible without the collective efforts of individuals whose ethical, political, and intellectual engagement with the archives and legacies of institutional psychotherapy has ensured its transmission and continuation.

First and foremost, we extend our deepest thanks to Sophie Lesage, founder of Éditions d’une and French editor of numerous books by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury, among others.

We are immensely grateful to the Tosquelles family, particularly Jacques Tosquellas, for providing us with many unpublished manuscripts by François Tosquelles and for generously granting the rights to publish the translation of ‘Psychopathology and Dialectical Materialism’. We also extend our thanks to Michel Tosquelles for providing us with the images from the film Société lozérienne d’hygiène mentale (Lozerien Society of Mental Hygiene).

Our special thanks goes to the family of Jean Oury, particularly Yannick Oury-Pulliero, for their trust and for granting us the rights to translate Oury’s ‘Institutional Psychotherapy: From Saint-Alban to La Borde’.

The contributions from Steven Corcoran, Anthony Faramelli, and Christian Scheerhorn in translation, research, and the processes of revision have been invaluable to this publication. We would also like to thank the devoted editorial team at ICI Berlin Press for their support, particularly Louisa Elderton, Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph Holzhey, and Claudia Peppel.

We too are grateful to Carles Guerra and Joana Masó for their foundational and stimulating curatorial and editorial work, which has significantly contributed to the transmission and visibility of institutional psychotherapy’s extensive archives.

The pioneering work of artists such as Josephine Guattari, Angela Melitopoulos, and François Pain has revealed the concrete entanglements between image and word, act and speech, machine and subjectivity, aesthetics and ethics — all of which lie at the heart of institutional psychotherapy’s praxis.

Finally, we would like to thank our collaborators Henning Schmidgen, who has consistently supported and encouraged our work at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and Matteo Pasquinelli, who first inspired the idea of translating the text by Tosquelles featured in this volume.

This book was produced with the generous support of the Freigeist Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation, which sponsors our research project, ‘Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe’, at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.