The Free Clinics Working Group is a collective space of exchange, learning, thinking and writing promoted by FREEPSY, University of Essex, UK. Over a series of meetings across the years of our research project, we are hosting guests from free clinics and scholars from various territories aiming at stretching our collective repertoire of what free psychoanalytic clinics are, can be and how they operate across different contexts.
Since 2022, the FCWG has been fostering the establishment of an intimate network of researchers & clinicians of psychosocial orientation that can discuss texts, think-together and produce alternative types of scholarly work collectively such as zines, online dictionaries, artwork and essays.
As an important part of FREEPSY research – Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for our Times – the FCWG holds space for inscribing historical and contemporary accounts of free clinics into our fields of psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies. Sharing, reading, connecting and writing we challenge the hegemonic historiography of our disciplines which sees psychoanalysis as a Eurocentric canon, investing on the vibrancy of praxes that are either from the Global South or peripheric in their own manner, re-inventing psychoanalysis in their own time. This is a space where we can also expand from our project’s research sites (North and South America, Central Europe and UK), being able to hear from colleagues and initiatives in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Another important element of the FCWG is that it encourages a dialogue between clinicians and academics, inviting colleagues from the university into the world of day-to-day clinical practice as well as providing analysts a space for intellectual exchange and production.
Free Clinics Working Group #5: Territorial Listening with Jorge Broide and colleagues.
Free Clinics Working Group #3 Germany edition by Ana Tomčić.
Free Clinics Working Group #2 UK edition.
Inaugural Free Clinics Working Group.
