february, 2022

2feb2:00 pm- 3:30 pm"Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy and Radical Psychiatry" Camille Robcis

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Camille Robcis – Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy and Radical Psychiatry

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February 2, 2022
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

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Event Description

From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime’s “soft extermination” let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one psychiatric hospital attempted to resist. Camille Robcis grapples with the historical, intellectual, and psychiatric meaning of the ethics articulated at Saint-Alban by exploring the movement’s key thinkers. 

Event Speaker

Camille Robcis, Professor of History and French at Columbia University

Event Information

Free and open to the public; registration required. Please visit the event webpage or contact Megan Wolff at mew2008@med.cornell.edu for additional information. 

This lecture is part of the Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar. Hosted by the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

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(Wednesday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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