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    Pierre Delion on Psychopolitics: ‘What is Institutional Psychotherapy?’ & ‘The Republic of False Selves’

    Author: Pierre Delion

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    The first English translation of Pierre Delion’s work presents two of his most compelling essays which raise questions about the broader political connections between clinical institutions and society as a whole.

    A must-read for those with an interest in psychotherapy, psychiatric institutions, or the interplay of psychiatry and contemporary events.

    Due to be published in February 2023.

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    Author

    Pierre Delion

    Translator

    Matthew H. Bowker

    ISBN

    9781800131460

    Format

    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    132

    Publication Date

    February 2023

    Subject Areas

    Political Theory, Psychosocial Studies, Psychotherapy

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    Pierre Delion is Professor Emeritus in the faculty of medicine at Lille, a child psychiatrist, and a psychoanalyst. His work is as straightforward as it is affecting but is little read in the English-speaking world due to a lack of translation into English. Matthew Bowker, in his excellent translation, rectifies this unfortunate deficit to introduce English-language readers to the affecting and wide-ranging work of Pierre Delion through two of his best-known essays.

    What is Institutional Psychotherapy? examines the psychiatric establishment and institution, arguing that for institutional psychotherapy to be effective, we must “care for the institution” just as we must attend to the “transferential constellation” of the patient, the latter of which emerges only when the institution respects all the voices (including the patient’s) involved in the patient’s care. And, as Delion duly notes: “What holds for person-to-person psychiatry also holds true for democracy.”

    The Republic of False Selves maintains that our social bonds have been damaged or destroyed to the extent that the practice and meaning of democracy itself are now in question. Democracy, for Delion, “refers not only to forms of government, but also to a society based on freedom and equality, or more generally still, to a set of values: political, social, or cultural ideals and principles.” The democratic project, then, is threatened by contemporary political events, media images, neoliberal and techno-bureaucratic interventions, and even or especially the treatment of the mentally ill.

    The combination of these two works into a single text invites readers to consider the broader political connections between the clinical institution and society as a whole. Delion’s careful thoughtfulness paired with his vast experience and understanding opens up new avenues of discovery to the reader.

    About the author

    About the author

    Pierre Delion is Professor Emeritus of child psychiatry at the University of Lille, former chief of the Lille UHC Child Psychiatry Department, and psychoanalyst. He has worked extensively with autism, psychosis and all archaic pathologies, and with babies. He has led several teams of ‘sectoral psychiatry’, including one in a university hospital, and has focused on combining sectoral psychiatry with institutional psychotherapy in an attempt to encourage humane psychiatric practices. He has written numerous psychiatric works about babies, autism, psychosis, and institutional psychotherapy, and has created an Institute of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents in Lille. He continues to promote humane psychiatry by participating in experience exchange meetings with numerous teams in the health and medico-social sectors, and by giving lectures on psychiatry. He insists on the need not to oppose the neurosciences to transferential psychopathology, but, on the contrary, to use these contributions so as to take into account all the anthropological factors involved in psychic suffering.

    About the translator

    About the translator

    Matthew H. Bowker, Ph.D., was educated at Columbia University, Institut d’études politiques, and the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of over fifteen books and several dozen journal articles and chapters on psychopolitical theory. He is currently Clinical Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Program at The State University of New York (SUNY).

    Contents

    Contents

    Translator’s introduction by Matthew H. Bowker
    About the author
    About the translator

    What is Institutional Psychotherapy?: A Conversation with Yasuo Miwaki
    Note on the Present Work
    1. Establishments and Institutions
    2. Active Therapy

    2.1. Insanity and Social Alienation
    2.2. Multi-referential Transference and Dissociated Transference
    2.3. What is a Transferential Constellation?
    2.4. Transferential Constellations and Organizational Difficulties
    2.5. Projective Identification and Adhesive Identification

    3. Institutional Psychotherapy and Antipsychiatry
    4. Transversality and Institutional Analysis
    5. Home Function
    6. Continuity of Care
    7. The Flesh, the Thing
    8. Deinstitutionalize?
    9. Sector Psychiatry
    10. Work and Adaptation

    The Republic of False Selves
    Preface
    1. Politics
    2. Media, Opinions, Images
    3. But What is a False Self?
    4. Societal Changes in Relation to the Inflation of the Image
    5. Discomfort in the Helping Relationship
    6. Is There Still a Subject in Man?
    7. The Psychiatric Revolution
    8. Sector Psychiatry and Institutional Psychotherapy
    9. Medicine with a Human Face
    10. Human Psychiatry
    11. By Way of Conclusion

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