Deinstitutionalization as Neitzschean transvaluation. Notes on psychotherapy and nihilism

Abstract

Establishing alternative mental health care has been facing several difficulties. We need to examine the subjective processes that may be supporting archaic and criticized practices in this area. The aim of this article is to analyze the relationship between the concepts of subjectivity, nihilism and institutionality in order to overcome the impasse in which deinstitutionalization finds itself. Taking Foucault and Deleuze as theoretical tools to understand the constitution of singularity, this paper focuses on the deinstitutionalization process in order to bring it closer to the Nietzschean project of transvaluation of values.

Keywords

• Deinstitutionalization
• Transvaluation
• Singularity
• Nihilism