Tosquelles: Healing Institutions - Joana Maso redemptive

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Tosquelles: Healing Institutions - Joana Maso redemptiveHaving fled to France in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, the Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles joined the Saint Alban psychiatric hospital, where he carried out a transformative clinical practice for over twenty years, in part under the Vichy regime. Saint Alban was an extraordinary event, a commune, an informal refuge in a time of extreme danger, a sort of upwelling spread through word of mouth. Those entering the asylum were welcomed,