Organised by the FREEPSY project in collaboration with the Psychosis Therapy Project.
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Psychoanalysis was profoundly involved in rethinking the practical and theoretical bases of psychiatric care in the twentieth century.
Psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic collectives, in a plurality of sites across the world, have been invested in reimagining the power relationship between doctor and patient, the representation of madness, and the conception of the psychiatric institution and its role in health and illness. This conference aims to bring into focus the experiments, practices and theoretical underpinnings of this creative boundary-crossing between psychoanalysis and radical psychiatry, including the early involvement of psychoanalysis in psychiatric care in Budapest of the 1920s and 30s. We put the ideas and practices of the Budapest School into dialogue with other traditions of radical psychiatry – from France, to the UK, to Italy, the USA and Latin America – and to celebrate the legacy of radical psychiatry today.
The event is preceded by a book launch at the Freud Museum on Friday 15 November.
Conference Programme
Pre-Conference Book Launch & Reception
Friday, 15 November 6pm-8.30pm
The Freud Museum London
Please apply for separate tickets from the Freud Museum if you want to come to the book launch of ‘My Farewell to the Yellow House’ (1927) by psychoanalyst and psychiatrist István Hollós. ‘My Farewell to the Yellow House’ is an event-book: a manifesto that aims to rethink the practical and theoretical bases of psychiatric care. The launch will include commentaries by: Raluca Soreanu, Monika Perenyei, Mónika Takács and Antal Bókay (preface authors); Adrian Courage & Kristina Valendinova (translators); Graham Smith & Daniel Bristow (editors), Matt ffytche & Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz (guest speakers).
Book separately:
Saturday, November 16
The Wellcome Collection
9am – 9:15am Opening and Welcome
Raluca Soreanu & Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz
SATURDAY SESSION 1
9:15am – 10:30am
Haya Oakley
Was the British version of the so called “anti-psychiatry” movement a failed experiment, a utopian dream or a radical discourse changer?
Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz
Reflecting on 10+ years of Psychosis Therapy Project: Now what?
Discussant: Ana Minozzo
Chair: Barry Watt
10:30am – 11:00am break
SATURDAY SESSION 2
11.00am – 12.00pm
Earl Pennycooke
Shades of the clinical and political in the analysis of racial trauma
Discussant: Dione Dalley
Chair: Ivan Ward
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Exhibition Opening & Commentary:
Artist Ana Čvorović & Curator Sacha Craddock
12:30pm – 1:30pm lunch break
SATURDAY SESSION 3
1:30pm – 3:20pm
Camille Robcis
Institutional Psychotherapy and the Saint-Alban Experiment
Ramsey McGlazer
Basaglia Unbound
Gabriel Mendes
Fanonian Sociogeny and the Antiracist Psychiatry of Harlem, NY’s Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic
Discussant: Candela Potente
Chair: Alexander Miller
3:20pm – 3:40pm
Archival material commentary:
Ewan O’Neill & Mónika Takács
3:40pm – 4pm break
FILM SCREENING SATURDAY
4pm – 6:15pm
Screening: ‘Història potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la por’ [‘The Potential History of Francesc Tosquelles, Catalonia and Fear’] (2021) by Mireia Sallarès, co-written with Joana Masó, with the presence of Mireia Sallarès
6:15pm – 6:30pm break
6:30pm – 7:30pm
Film round-table discussion
Mireia Sallarès, Raluca Soreanu, Susana Caló and Magda Schmukalla
Sunday November 17
The Wellcome Collection
SUNDAY SESSION 1
9:30am – 11:15am
Anna Borgos
“He acted like Svengali, and I was Trilby.” Hysterical patients in Hungary in the light of early-twentieth-century medical records
Júlia Gyimesi
Critical Engagements with Psychoanalysis: Reinscribing Psychoanalytic Concepts in Light of Esotericism
Antal Bókay
Responsible Psychoanalysis: The enigmatic messages of the two versions of Ferenczi’s Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy
Discussant: Ana Tomcic
Chair: Raluca Soreanu
11:15am – 11:40m break
SUNDAY SESSION 2
11:40m – 1pm
Susana Caló & Godofredo Pereira
Analysis Everywhere: On the research collective CERFI (Centre d’Études de Recherche et de Formation Institutionnelle)
Discussants: Lizaveta van Munsteren & Anderson Santos
Chair: Ramsey McGlazer
1pm – 2pm lunch break
SUNDAY SESSION 3
2pm – 3:50pm
Tania Rivera
Turning inside-out the outside art: How an art atelier in an asylum has invented contemporary art in Brazil
Raluca Soreanu & Monika Perenyei
The Dream Album: The Album of the Angyalföld Museum and the Politics of Presentation of the Asylum in Interwar Budapest
Matt ffytche
The Life Left in Madness: The Notebooks of Aimable Jayet at St-Alban
Discussant: Magda Schmukalla
Chair: Lizaveta van Munsteren
3:50pm – 4:10pm break
SUNDAY SESSION 4
4:10pm – 5:30pm
Final Conference Roundtable with All Speakers
Please note that a limited number of bursary tickets at £15 (in person) and £5 (online) are available for those who would not be able to attend without financial support. Please email Ivan Ward to apply for a bursary ticket iw22287@essex.ac.uk
CPF certificates available on request.
