Everybody Wants to be a Fascist: Institutional Psychotherapy as a Resistance Movement by François Pain
Edited by Perwana Nazif
Artist François Pain (b. 1945) worked at psychiatric clinic La Borde where he met major representatives of Institutional Psychotherapy Francesc Tosquelles, Jean Oury, and Félix Guattari. Pain became the leading film chronicler of Institutional Psychotherapy at experimental clinics and his films have played a crucial role in the antifascist resistance movement’s circulation and extensions. Frequently collaborating with Guattari, Pain was a seminal figure in alternative media and psychiatric networks.
The essays in this book pay homage to Pain’s insurrectionist work across film, media, and the clinic alongside the legacies of Institutional Psychotherapy through direct interlocutors and indirect practices—from the work of Dr. Ziou Ziou in the Berrechid clinic in Morocco and South Beach Psychiatric Center in New York to Pain’s Radio Tomate and Tosquelles’s tribute to Frantz Fanon’s clinical and political revolutionary legacy. The book includes photographs and other materials from Pain’s archive, and texts by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Félix Guattari, John Kelsey, Stefania Pandolfo, AbdouMaliq Simone, Francesc Tosquelles, Jackie Wang, and Hannah Zeavin. 96 pp.
Everybody Wants to be a Fascist: Institutional Psychotherapy as a Resistance Movement by François Pain is designed by Hedi El Kholti and edited by Perwana Nazif. Published on the occasion of François Pain, Psychiatry Is What Psychiatrists Do at JOAN, Los Angeles, from February 21–April 26, 2025.
Edited by Perwana Nazif
Artist François Pain (b. 1945) worked at psychiatric clinic La Borde where he met major representatives of Institutional Psychotherapy Francesc Tosquelles, Jean Oury, and Félix Guattari. Pain became the leading film chronicler of Institutional Psychotherapy at experimental clinics and his films have played a crucial role in the antifascist resistance movement’s circulation and extensions. Frequently collaborating with Guattari, Pain was a seminal figure in alternative media and psychiatric networks.
The essays in this book pay homage to Pain’s insurrectionist work across film, media, and the clinic alongside the legacies of Institutional Psychotherapy through direct interlocutors and indirect practices—from the work of Dr. Ziou Ziou in the Berrechid clinic in Morocco and South Beach Psychiatric Center in New York to Pain’s Radio Tomate and Tosquelles’s tribute to Frantz Fanon’s clinical and political revolutionary legacy. The book includes photographs and other materials from Pain’s archive, and texts by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Félix Guattari, John Kelsey, Stefania Pandolfo, AbdouMaliq Simone, Francesc Tosquelles, Jackie Wang, and Hannah Zeavin. 96 pp.
Everybody Wants to be a Fascist: Institutional Psychotherapy as a Resistance Movement by François Pain is designed by Hedi El Kholti and edited by Perwana Nazif. Published on the occasion of François Pain, Psychiatry Is What Psychiatrists Do at JOAN, Los Angeles, from February 21–April 26, 2025.
Edited by Perwana Nazif
Artist François Pain (b. 1945) worked at psychiatric clinic La Borde where he met major representatives of Institutional Psychotherapy Francesc Tosquelles, Jean Oury, and Félix Guattari. Pain became the leading film chronicler of Institutional Psychotherapy at experimental clinics and his films have played a crucial role in the antifascist resistance movement’s circulation and extensions. Frequently collaborating with Guattari, Pain was a seminal figure in alternative media and psychiatric networks.
The essays in this book pay homage to Pain’s insurrectionist work across film, media, and the clinic alongside the legacies of Institutional Psychotherapy through direct interlocutors and indirect practices—from the work of Dr. Ziou Ziou in the Berrechid clinic in Morocco and South Beach Psychiatric Center in New York to Pain’s Radio Tomate and Tosquelles’s tribute to Frantz Fanon’s clinical and political revolutionary legacy. The book includes photographs and other materials from Pain’s archive, and texts by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Félix Guattari, John Kelsey, Stefania Pandolfo, AbdouMaliq Simone, Francesc Tosquelles, Jackie Wang, and Hannah Zeavin. 96 pp.
Everybody Wants to be a Fascist: Institutional Psychotherapy as a Resistance Movement by François Pain is designed by Hedi El Kholti and edited by Perwana Nazif. Published on the occasion of François Pain, Psychiatry Is What Psychiatrists Do at JOAN, Los Angeles, from February 21–April 26, 2025.