Curing the Group

On Healing Institutions Tobias Jenkins The most famous photograph of Francesc Tosquelles shows him balanced barefoot on the corrugated metal roof of the administrative building of the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole in the South of France, of which he was the director from 1953 to 1962. He holds above his head a sculpture of a ship constructed from found pieces of metal, cloth,…