ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the psychoanalytic treatment of the psychoses from a Lacanian perspective and presents institutions that have employed the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan as a foundation for their work. The concept of the body image has a long tradition in psychoanalysis in the theory and treatment of the psychoses. French psychiatry was ideologically destabilised by the ideas of Michel Foucault, rançois Tosquelles, DaumEzon, and Jacques Lacan in the post Second World War climate of anti-psychiatry and by those who gathered at Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a French psychiatric hospital in Lozere where they produced a new psychiatry that heralded institutional psychotherapy. La Borde was born from a lineage of psychiatric practice that used psychoanalysis influenced by Lacan, to explore the relationship between patients and psychotherapists. Le Courtil presents an alternative psychoanalytically influenced approach to the institutional treatment of patients with psychiatric disorders.
