Jean Oury (5 March 1924 – 15 May 2014) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who helped found the school of

institutional psychotherapy Institutional psychotherapy (also known as institutional analysis) is a French psychiatric reform movement and approach to group psychotherapy influenced by Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis starting in the 1950s. The Association of Institution ...

. He was the founder and director of the

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hospital

La Borde clinic La Borde is a psychiatric clinic that opened in 1953, near the town of Cour-Cheverny in the Loire Valley of France. Still in operation today, La Borde has been a model in the field of institutional psychotherapy where citizens actively participate ...

at Cour-Cheverny,

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where he worked until he died. He was a member of the Freudian School of Paris, founded by

Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and ...

from inception until its dissolution. His brother,

Fernand Oury Fernand Oury (18 January 1920 – 19 February 1998) was a pedagogue and creator of institutional pedagogy. He recommended and practiced a "school of the people" methodology, in which children were no longer passive receivers, but actively parti ...

, founded the school of

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References

Literature

* Robcis, Camille (2021) ''Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France'' The University of Chicago Press 1924 births French psychoanalysts French psychiatrists 2014 deaths Analysands of Jacques Lacan {{France-psychiatrist-stub