Francisco Balbuena Rivera
Biographic Data
| ID | 5455282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Balbuena Rivera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco Balbuena |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivera |
| SIGNATURE | RIVERA F B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Huelva |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4242-1033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Objectivity and Subjectivity Revisited
Human beings have long struggled to explain the relationship between the external world and the inner life of the self. Across philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, objectivity and subjectivity are typically treated as mutually exclusive categories, a division that obscures their deep interdependence. This paper argues for a conceptual shift: from viewing objectivity and subjectivity as antagonists to understanding them as co-constitutive dim…
Madness
What is madness? Convention dictates that a paper should begin by defining the object of inquiry. However, in defiance of this convention, this paper instead engages in a critical reflection on the concept of madness, one in which the terms “schizophrenia” and “madness” shall be used interchangeably. This conflation reflects the tendency in contemporary discourse to present schizophrenia as the paradigmatic expression of madness. As one of the mo…
Laing and Rogers in London
BACKGROUND: In the summer of 1978 a large 1-day event was scheduled to take place in the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, London between the psychotherapists Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987), and his associates, and Ronald D. Laing (1927-1989) and his group. From among all the eyewitness accounts of that meeting, I have found only the testimonies of Maureen O'Hara, Ian Cunningham, Charles Elliot, and Emmy van Deurzen. According to O'Har…
From asylums to deinstitutionalization and after
BACKGROUND: After a period of institution-based mental health care, in which the asylum system was the way in which the mental patients were treated, deinstitutionalization brought a set of significant changes and transformations in the conceptualization of mental illness and, by extension, the traditional therapeutic settings in which those in most need were assisted. However, this shift in the psychiatric domain was not only accompanied by valu…
The Soteria project recounted by Mosher and its clinical resonances today
BACKGROUND: The American psychiatrist Loren R. Mosher has passed to posterity as an eager proponent of a psychosocial approach to psychosis. The best example of this is the Soteria project that he founded in San Jose, California, in the 1970s. The contribution of Alma Zito Menn, ACSW, also merits attention as project director of Soteria and for her links to the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto. She was later replaced as program director by Vo…
Debating asylum psychiatry
As I will show here, Szasz misconstrued the Basaglian project for a new kind of psychiatry, and for the transformation and closure of the old asylum system. This erroneous view of Basaglia by Szasz is partly associated with his idea that Basaglia and other antipsychiatrists were supported by the modern socialist-therapeutic State
Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in the Age of Neuroscience
Laing Versus Szasz
In the mid-1970s, as the role of institutional psychiatry was being debated, Thomas S. Szasz directed a severe and unexpected critique at the work of Ronald D. Laing, after which there arose an acrimonious debate between Szasz and supporters of Laing in the Philadelphia Association (PA). (Laing himself conspicuously declined to respond to Szasz). This clash of views was initiated by Szasz in The New Review (TNR), which prompted a series of rebutt…
The silence of Laing and its echo in Szasz’s essay on antipsychiatry
Background: As has been evaluated in a previous paper, Thomas S. Szasz redoubled his attacks against R. D. Laing in a series of articles which were published in The New Review (TNR) during the 1970s. Laing, however, consciously decided not reply to Szasz, a task taken up instead by Leon Redler on behalf of the Philadelphia Association (PA). Aims/objective: The main purpose of this paper is to shed light on the motives which led to Laing to declin…
In honor of Jurgen Ruesch
BACKGROUND: In a highly technical civilization like ours, in which the interest in human communication transcends academic barriers and clinical practice, it seems necessary to look back to Ruesch's work in psychiatry. The main reason of it rests upon the idea that he was one of the few truly outstanding clinicians, researchers, and theoretical in the field of normal and abnormal communication. In fact, he did not only present a wealth of observa…
The Relevance of Arieti’s Work in the Age of Medication
Revisiting Dr. Rosen
This paper analyzes the life and the work of Dr. J.N. Rosen, who pioneered attempts to treat psychosis from a psychoanalytic standpoint at a time when conventional approaches advocated pharmacological and physical treatments. His psychotherapeutic technique, which became known as “direct analysis,” divided opinion among practitioners and later attracted a degree of notoriety as the result of several law suits following the deaths of patients unde…
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Revisiting Dr. Rosen
This paper analyzes the life and the work of Dr. J.N. Rosen, who pioneered attempts to treat psychosis from a psychoanalytic standpoint at a time when conventional approaches advocated pharmacological and physical treatments. His psychotherapeutic technique, which became known as “direct analysis,” divided opinion among practitioners and later attracted a degree of notoriety as the result of several law suits following the deaths of patients unde…
The Relevance of Arieti’s Work in the Age of Medication
In honor of Jurgen Ruesch
BACKGROUND: In a highly technical civilization like ours, in which the interest in human communication transcends academic barriers and clinical practice, it seems necessary to look back to Ruesch's work in psychiatry. The main reason of it rests upon the idea that he was one of the few truly outstanding clinicians, researchers, and theoretical in the field of normal and abnormal communication. In fact, he did not only present a wealth of observa…
The silence of Laing and its echo in Szasz’s essay on antipsychiatry
Background: As has been evaluated in a previous paper, Thomas S. Szasz redoubled his attacks against R. D. Laing in a series of articles which were published in The New Review (TNR) during the 1970s. Laing, however, consciously decided not reply to Szasz, a task taken up instead by Leon Redler on behalf of the Philadelphia Association (PA). Aims/objective: The main purpose of this paper is to shed light on the motives which led to Laing to declin…
Debating asylum psychiatry
As I will show here, Szasz misconstrued the Basaglian project for a new kind of psychiatry, and for the transformation and closure of the old asylum system. This erroneous view of Basaglia by Szasz is partly associated with his idea that Basaglia and other antipsychiatrists were supported by the modern socialist-therapeutic State
Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in the Age of Neuroscience
Laing Versus Szasz
In the mid-1970s, as the role of institutional psychiatry was being debated, Thomas S. Szasz directed a severe and unexpected critique at the work of Ronald D. Laing, after which there arose an acrimonious debate between Szasz and supporters of Laing in the Philadelphia Association (PA). (Laing himself conspicuously declined to respond to Szasz). This clash of views was initiated by Szasz in The New Review (TNR), which prompted a series of rebutt…
Laing and Rogers in London
BACKGROUND: In the summer of 1978 a large 1-day event was scheduled to take place in the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, London between the psychotherapists Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987), and his associates, and Ronald D. Laing (1927-1989) and his group. From among all the eyewitness accounts of that meeting, I have found only the testimonies of Maureen O'Hara, Ian Cunningham, Charles Elliot, and Emmy van Deurzen. According to O'Har…
From asylums to deinstitutionalization and after
BACKGROUND: After a period of institution-based mental health care, in which the asylum system was the way in which the mental patients were treated, deinstitutionalization brought a set of significant changes and transformations in the conceptualization of mental illness and, by extension, the traditional therapeutic settings in which those in most need were assisted. However, this shift in the psychiatric domain was not only accompanied by valu…
The Soteria project recounted by Mosher and its clinical resonances today
BACKGROUND: The American psychiatrist Loren R. Mosher has passed to posterity as an eager proponent of a psychosocial approach to psychosis. The best example of this is the Soteria project that he founded in San Jose, California, in the 1970s. The contribution of Alma Zito Menn, ACSW, also merits attention as project director of Soteria and for her links to the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto. She was later replaced as program director by Vo…
Objectivity and Subjectivity Revisited
Human beings have long struggled to explain the relationship between the external world and the inner life of the self. Across philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, objectivity and subjectivity are typically treated as mutually exclusive categories, a division that obscures their deep interdependence. This paper argues for a conceptual shift: from viewing objectivity and subjectivity as antagonists to understanding them as co-constitutive dim…
Madness
What is madness? Convention dictates that a paper should begin by defining the object of inquiry. However, in defiance of this convention, this paper instead engages in a critical reflection on the concept of madness, one in which the terms “schizophrenia” and “madness” shall be used interchangeably. This conflation reflects the tendency in contemporary discourse to present schizophrenia as the paradigmatic expression of madness. As one of the mo…
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