Ana Tomcic

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2025

Tomcic, A. Trauma, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft in der psychoanalytischen Pädagogik von Nelly Wolffheim (Trauma, Community and Society in the Psychoanalytic Pedagogy of Nelly Wolffheim), Symposion zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse, 28 February-2nd March 2025, Berlin.

2024

Tomcic, A. with Klara Naszkowska and Richard Theisen Simanke, Book Launch of Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, Contemporary Relevance, Congresso Internacional PhilPsyCh, 14 December 2024.

Tomcic, A. Discussant Contribution. Psychoanalysis and Radical Psychiatry Conference, The Wellcome Collection, 15-17 November 2024, London.

Tomcic, A. The Politics of the Antisocial Self in World-War-II and Post-World-War-II Psychoanalysis, The European Society for the History of Human Sciences (ESHHS), June 2024, University of Essex, Colchester.

Tomcic, A. Un-disciplining the Social Bond: Healing Communities in Work with Antisocial Adolescents between 1930 and 1970, Association for Psychosocial Studies Conference, June 2024, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London.

Tomcic, A. Un-Disciplining the Social Bond: The Case of the Cotswold Community, Caring Futures: Contradictions, Transformation and Revolutionary Possibilities, 29 May, 2024, The American University of Paris, Paris. 

2023

Tomcic, A. and Minozzo, A. “A ‘Mental Health Commons’: The Case of Free Clinics and an Ethics of Togetherness”, London Conference in Critical Thought, London, July 1st 2023 https://www.londoncritical.co.uk/  

Tomcic, A. “Melitta Schmideberg as a Pioneer of Psychoanalytic Offender Therapy”, Imago Budapest Group, The Hungarian Academy of the Sciences, Budapest, June 7th 2023

Tomcic, A. “The Hawkspur Camp and its Legacy: An Early Case of Psychoanalytic Group Therapy with Young Offenders”, Inside-Outside: Community in the Mind and the Mind in the Community, Birmingham, September 18th 2023

INVITED TALKS

2024

Tomcic, A. with Klara Naszkowska, Book Launch of Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, Contemporary Relevance, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, 22 September 2024.

2023

Tomcic, A. Presentation for the launch symposium of ‘Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe’ (Leuven University Press, 2023), by Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg, and Jenny Willner at the Freud Museum London, 7th July,  https://www.freud.org.uk/event/ferenczi-dialogues/

Tomcic, A. “Sabina Spielrein and her Legacy”, guest lecture as part of the course “Reconsidering the First Women in Psychoanalysis, organised by Klara Naszkowska (Director of the International Association for Spielrein Studies), August 2023

Tomcic, A. and Launer, J. “Sabina Spielrein as a Pioneer of Child Analysis”, guest presentation at the Centre for Childhood Studies, University of Essex, 15 November 2023