Schizoanalysis and Schizodrama - Clinic and Politics

This book presents theoretical and methodological contributions to the development of mental health interventions that combine clinical and political approaches based on schizoanalysis and schizodrama.  It seeks to make the transition from the philosophy of schizoanalysis to the applied field of intervention of a clinic-politics with strong inspiration from schizodrama.
Created in the early 1970s by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze in partnership with French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, schizoanalysis is a philosophical approach that departs from the psychoanalytic inquiry of desire and affection as the main drivers of the processes of subjectivation to create a Philosophy of Difference that aims at mapping and contributing to the emergence of different forms of subjectivity not submitted to traditional forms of psychic and social coercion. Inspired by this innovative theoretical approach, the Argentinian psychiatrist Gregorio Baremblitt developed an original kind of schizoanalysis in Latin America called schizodrama, which aims at creating intervention devices, both clinical and political, to operationalize schizoanalysis philosophical concepts. Building upon the contributions of schizodrama, this book seeks to contribute to operationalize the migration of schizoanalysis to the fields of psychology and social intervention.
Schizoanalysis and Schizodrama: Clinic and Politics will be of interest to mental health professionals such as psychologists, psychiatrists and clinical social workers as well as to researchers in the human, social and health sciences interested in learning about this new theoretical field and its various modes of clinical-political intervention. 
This is a revised edition of a book originally published in Brazilian Portuguese. The original manuscript was written in Brazilian Portuguese and translated into English with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

List of contents

Chapter 1. The problem of the crossing from philosophy to clinic.- Chapter 2. Schizoanalysis and Schizodrama.- Chapter 3. Cartography of intensities: device and haptic dimension.- Chapter 4. Desire as a force: clinic and politics.- Chapter 5. Desire and political machines: coding, neoliberal and neofascist.- Chapter 6. The becomings and their clinic.- Chapter 7. The Body without Organs and its clinic.- Chapter 8. 'Altered states' of consciousness.- Chapter 9. Groups and schizoanalysis.- Chapter 10. Questions of method for producing life in times of death.

About the author

Domenico Uhng Hur is a psychologist, master and doctor in Social Psychology from the University of São Paulo (USP-Brazil), with a doctoral internship at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and post-doctorate at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC - Spain). He is Professor of Psychology at the Federal University of Goiás (Brazil), with dozens of articles, chapters, and books on Schizoanalysis, Schizodrama, and critical Political Psychology.

Summary

This book presents theoretical and methodological contributions to the development of mental health interventions that combine clinical and political approaches based on schizoanalysis and schizodrama.  It seeks to make the transition from the philosophy of schizoanalysis to the applied field of intervention of a clinic-politics with strong inspiration from schizodrama.
Created in the early 1970s by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze in partnership with French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, schizoanalysis is a philosophical approach that departs from the psychoanalytic inquiry of desire and affection as the main drivers of the processes of subjectivation to create a Philosophy of Difference that aims at mapping and contributing to the emergence of different forms of subjectivity not submitted to traditional forms of psychic and social coercion. Inspired by this innovative theoretical approach, the Argentinian psychiatrist Gregorio Baremblitt developed an original kind of schizoanalysis in Latin America called schizodrama, which aims at creating intervention devices, both clinical and political, to operationalize schizoanalysis’ philosophical concepts. Building upon the contributions of schizodrama, this book seeks to contribute to operationalize the “migration” of schizoanalysis to the fields of psychology and social intervention.
Schizoanalysis and Schizodrama: Clinic and Politics
will be of interest to mental health professionals – such as psychologists, psychiatrists and clinical social workers – as well as to researchers in the human, social and health sciences interested in learning about this new theoretical field and its various modes of clinical-political intervention. 

This is a revised edition of a book originally published in Brazilian Portuguese. The original manuscript was written in Brazilian Portuguese and translated into English with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Product details

• Authors: Domenico Uhng Hur
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2025
• EAN: 9783031946561
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3194656-1
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 13 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 373 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 158 p. 12 illus., 2 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Sozialpsychologie, Clinical psychology, Social Psychology, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Gregorio Baremblitt, Schizodrama, Schizoanalysis, Psychosocial interventions