Re-Agire is a network that brings together Italians and foreigners with various professional backgrounds, committed to welcoming asylum seekers and immigrants. The network was created to address the inhumanity and inefficiency of institutional practices towards new migrants in Italy and Europe.
Entry Category: Psychological Support & Inclusion
A Politics of Madness: François Tosquelles
An interview with psychiatrist François Tosquelles, cofounder of institutional psychotherapy, weaving together politics and clinical thought with historical depth and unique insight. Another work bridging psychiatry, pedagogy, and emancipatory politics.
The Invisible (Lo Invisible) – Interview with Jean Oury
Language Beyond Words: A Meeting at the Dawn of Language Between Institutional Psychotherapy and Peircean Semiotics
Charles S. Peirce’s semiotics,institutional psychotherapy,vague logic,abductive logic,subjective singularity,psychic suffering
The Invisible, an interview with Nicolas Philibert
An interview with psychiatrist Jean Oury, one of the founders of institutional psychotherapy. Possibly one of the clearest introductions to what this movement—seen as “the same thing” as institutional pedagogy—is about. A bridge between psychiatry, pedagogy, and emancipatory politics.
One praxis, two thoughts
An article exploring the connections and contrasts between the thinking and clinical approaches of Jean Oury, and Félix Guattari—best known for his psychoanalytic and philosophical work with Gilles Deleuze. An entry point into the intersection of psychiatry, pedagogy, and emancipatory politics.
Psychoanalysis and Transversality
A foundational book by Félix Guattari, compiling his writings on institutional psychotherapy from the 1950s to the late 1960s—when he was deeply involved in the movement. A core reference that connects psychiatry, pedagogy, and emancipatory politics.
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The major political, clinical, and ethical work by Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze. This philosophical duo’s two-volume work—Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus—has become a seminal reference across clinical, artistic, political, linguistic, and epistemological fields. Deeply rooted in institutional psychotherapy and pedagogy, though more heterogeneous than the Oury brothers’ approaches.
Grafting the Open
Pierre Johan Laffitte – Professor of Critical Philosophy of Education, University of Paris 8
In Silence, the Making of Speech
Pierre Johan Laffitte – Professor of Critical Philosophy of Education, University of Paris 8