Psychosis Therapy Project – PTP & USEMI Racial Trauma Clinic (London, UK)
The PTP is one of the most dynamic and radical psychoanalytically-oriented organisations currently operating in the UK. Since 2012, the project has had various formats and welcomed a large number of people within their communities whose diagnoses of psychosis had been with them for many years or a recent challenge in their lives.
The PTP is also a potent web of trainees and experienced practitioners with a plural approach to psychotherapy and a common psychosocial and political engagement of their clinical practice. The founder and clinical director Dorothée Bonnigal-Katzand co-directors Dione Dalley, Earl Pennycooke and Barry Watt inspire a whole generation of new clinicians into developing an implicated practice – be it in the NHS, private practice, the third sector or in the cracks and edges between and beyond these spaces.
Responding to demands observed in the territories of clinical work, the PTP expanded, during the Covid-related lockdown, into a specialist Racial Trauma clinic, USEMI. As part of this side of the work, community-specific groups were organised, including groups of South Asian Women, Latin American Womxn, Black Man and Women and Turkish-Cypriot people. Training, supervision, events and an ongoing creativity make of the PTP a space where the ethos of free-clinics lives and grows organically, always in direct contact with local needs.
