The visual-text booklet weaves together interview dialogue and personal imagery into an intimate archive.
The booklet accompanies the unpublished research, “Beyond Symptom Suppression: Psychoanalytic Perspectives and Alternative Approaches to Psychosis at Le 388,” examining Le 388 - an outpatient clinic in Québec that provides an innovative model for the treatment of psychosis, with interventions rooted in psychoanalysis that prioritize humanization and subjectivity over symptom suppression.
The textual source is the 2019 interview with the Lacanian founders of Le 388 by Chris Vanderwees - structurally disrupted, presenting only key statements from the text using a process of highlighting and erasure (inspired by collaborator Eliza Lu Doyle). Images have been sourced from unused 2014 documentary footage of a journey across the United States to search for alternative treatment facilities for psychosis. I’ve extracted screenshots (fragments of visual memory) and the images have been woven into the text. The cut-outs within the images mirror the opposite text. This represents sensations of erasure, accounting for those disappeared by our systems as well as the recent loss of Le 388 (closed March 2025). This visual project became an attempt to merge time and space.
