Event overview
with Anne Querrien (Network for Institutional Analysis)
Anne Querrien, Network for Institutional Analysis
Respondent: Patrick Ffrench, King’s College London
Born in 1945, Anne Querrien was a prominent student union organiser in Paris in the 1960s and one of the first women promoted into the senior levels of the French students union. Querrien worked with Félix Guattari at La Borde Clinic, and through this experience, re-shaped her relationship to student activism - then focused on mental health - developing experimental approaches to care on campus. With Guattari and others, she was involved in the occupations of May 1968 and later part of transversal groups FGERI (Fédération des groupes d’études et de recherches institutionnelles) and CERFI (Centre d’études, de recherches et de formation institutionnelles). Today Anne works as the editor of the magazine Les Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, and participates in the editorial boards of the journals Multitudes and Chimères. She will speak about the use of the Therapeutic Club at LaBorde. The Therapeutic Club was a self-managed, non-hierarchical group involving both patients and caregivers. It was financially independent from the clinic but central to its daily operations, inventing activities, responses to emerging issues and publishing a regular newspaper.
Patrick Ffrench is Professor at King’s College London. He is a graduate of University College London, where he gained his PhD on the French literary and theoretical journal Tel Quel, under the supervision of Professor Annette Lavers. His Postdoctoral research was on the role of Georges Bataille in 20th-century French intellectual history. French’s recent books include Thinking Cinema with Proust (Legenda, 2018) and Roland Barthes and Film (Bloomsbury, 2019). He is currently developing a project on the inter-relations of post-war French thought and psychiatry.
"The Therapeutic Club" is part of the Visual Cultures Public Programme, Spring 2020, co-organised by Anthony Faramelli and Janna Graham with the Network for Institutional Analysis.
Image credit: François Pain
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Feb 2020 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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