The movement called Institutional Psychotherapy is grounded in the ongoing effort to install the necessary conditions of possibility for the liberation of the clinic from alienation. To care for psychotic and other suffering people, we need to create a supportive transferential field in which the human encounter is essential. This touches the Real and makes possible, in a moment of crisis, a transformation of the position of the Subject. The Collective, the pathic sculpting of the space-between-people, allows for the emergence of the singular, the unexpected, the impossible. The starting point of this article is the author’s experience in the psychiatric clinic of La Borde (France). Through a number of concrete examples and critical moments, it hopes to show the interweaving of the elaboration of conceptual tools and the therapeutic situation within an institution.
Download full text
Related articles
Encounter with Institutional PsychotherapyThe pathic, which is fundamental to all practice, releases this practice from a thematic, goal-directed and measurable realisation. It turns practice into a process that is continuously transforming itself in a wide variety of initiatives which are supported by a pathic continuum, like reception, taking time and polyphonic-tinged encounters. In this way Institutional Psychotherapy tries to take shape within a care system that is, in and of itself, closed. Download full text
-
B minorB minor sketches in manner that is filmic and poetic the pathic landscape of a corridor, the psychiatric unit of a general hospital. The evocation introduces us to a concept of "space". The geographical or architectural geometric space is ontic. Her sense is pathic. The pathic landscape is directly and immediate revealed to us as "mood". The rhythm is distinguished from the cadence. It opens the space and the time of waiting. The rhythm is personal; it is the "how"…
