American Folk Art Museum

This exhibition—situated at the intersection of art and psychiatry—explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles

After fleeing the Nationalist government of Franco amidst the Spanish Civil War, Tosquelles arrived in 1940 at the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in Southern France, where he devised a series of revolutionary psychiatric practices that came to be called “institutional psychotherapy” predicated on non-hierarchical relations between patients, doctors, manual laborers on site, neighboring communities, and outsiders

https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/tosquelles

Reminds me of favorite old movie

“King of Hearts (Le Roi de cœur) is a 1966 French/Italian international co-production comedy-drama film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring #AlanBates and Geneviève Bujold.

The film is set in a small town in #France near the end of World War I. As the Imperial #German Army retreats, they booby trap the whole town to explode.

The locals flee and, left to their own devices, a gaggle of cheerful lunatics escape the asylum and take over the town — thoroughly confusing the lone Scottish soldier who has been dispatched to defuse the bomb”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Hearts_(1966_film)
#mentalhealth #mentalillness