Rockbund Art Museum Taps Parapraxis for 2026 Late Summer School on Institutional Psychotherapy

The Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai has partnered with Parapraxis to organize its 2026 Late Summer School, focusing on the concept of 'disalienation' as pioneered by Catalan psychoanalyst Francesc Tosquelles in the 1930s. Tosquelles, known for his work at Saint-Alban hospital in southern France, argued that institutions themselves could be 'cured' to foster spaces for unlearning social and political conditioning—a practice later termed institutional psychotherapy. The program will explore how such spaces might scale to address societal alienation. Parapraxis, a collective or organization (details not specified in the source), will lead the group. The event builds on the double meanings of asylum (refuge and cure) and alienation (psychic isolation and material disidentification). No specific dates within 2026 were provided.