ASYLAR TREATMENT, HELPLESSNESS AND THERAPEUTIC ACCOMPANIMENT (AT)

Abstract

This essay is based on the concept of helplessness, it criticizes asylum treatments, and concludes by emphasizing the importance of not allowing ourselves to be captured by incarceration proposals. The reflections involve two types of arguments: (a) wide-ranging arguments related to the return of the asylum movement associated with compulsive use of drugs and abstinence policies; (b) arguments related to the micropolitical situation that affects us as they arise from our anti-asylum struggle and anti-prohibitionist ethics. Such situations come together, urging us not to retreat from the extreme violence that presents itself wherever we operate and to be politically creative. Therapeutic Accompaniment can be this vigorous clinical art, aligned with the extinction of asylum treatments, if we understand that our primordial helplessness is based on ties with human and non-human ties and, in opposition to manicomicides (murderers of desire), we do not treat as sick those who differ from the majority because of their ways of living.

Keywords: Asylum treatment; Therapeutic accompaniment; Helplessness; Anti-asylum movement