Chaosophy - autonomous learning

Dingleton, under the direction of Maxwell Jones). They gradually
developed their own conceptions, distancing themselves from other
attempts that they considered to be too reformist, and questioning
their own initial approaches.
Until then it had been the advanced group-the "avant-garde"
-who "granted privileges" to patients. The dice were loaded. In
1965, Basaglia and his group decided to develop more thoroughly
the "community culture" which, little by little, gained ground and
modified the real relations of force between the personnel and the
patients. Maxwell Jones's ideas were subjected to criticism. They
decided that the techniques involved in reaching a consensus
were, after all, only a new method of integrating the mentally ill
into a society answering to the "ideal of the panorganization of
neocapitalist society" (Lucio Schiter, p. 149). The famous "third
psychiatric revolution" would be merely, as they put it, "a belated
adaptation of modalities of social control of pathological behavior
to the methods of production perfected over the last forty years by
sociologists and technicians of mass communication" (p. 149).
Thus, they rejected every politics of improvement and the consolidation
of hospitals, a politics which in France had led the most
innovative trends in psychiatry to collaborate directly with the
Minister of Health, and to elaborate, with the top-ranking civil
servants, ministerial circulars for the reform of psychiatric hospitals,
etc. In the long run, this experience was deceptive and bitter, and
it drove certain of the best of French psychiatrists to despair. In
addition, the recent psychiatric reform of teaching, finalized by
Edgar Faure! for the departments, must have contributed to the
spread of confusion among the ranks of the psychiatric opposition
after May 1968. The society of institutional psychotherapy itself
took cover during the May movement, certain psychiatrists estimating
"that nothing happened in May," nothing in any case that
could possibly concern institutional psychotherapy. Violently
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