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A Comprehensive Overview of Institutional Psychotherapy: Concepts and Clinical Applications

  • By

  • Laurie d’Abbadie de Nodrest

  • Manon Piette

  • Habib Bardi

  • Tudi Gozé

  • July 8, 2026

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    Institutional Psychotherapy emerged around World War II as a movement to prevent psychiatric institutions from becoming alienating asylums.

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    It integrates psychoanalysis, libertarian Marxism, and phenomenology, serving as a flexible conceptual and critical toolbox.

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    The movement emphasizes the importance of social alienation and the therapeutic milieu within a socio-economic context.

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    Institutional Psychotherapy extends psychoanalytic practices beyond individual therapy to collective and organizational dimensions.

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    It has developed through diverse local experiences and theoretical appropriations, resisting doctrinal stabilization.

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Institutional psychotherapy: a conceptual review and clinical toolbox

  • by Laurie d’Abbadie de Nodrest, Manon Piette, Habib Bardi, Tudi Gozé

  • July 8, 2026

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