Free Clinics Working Group

The inaugural event, Monday, 15th of January, 2024

The Freud Museum London 2pm to 5:30pm

With International guests:

Dr Carolina Besoain (Santiago, Chile)

Carolina is a researcher and psychoanalyst involved in the Colectivo Trenza in Chile and is currently researching free psychoanalysis collectives in Latin America from a feminist perspective.

Anderson Santos (São Paulo, Brazil) 

Anderson is a researcher, activist and analyst part of the free clinic at Praça Roosevelt in São Paulo, and of several collective formation initiatives. He is an editor, translator and overall agitator of the unconscious, with special experience in schizoanalysis. 

The Free Clinics Working Group is a collective space of exchange, learning, thinking and writing promoted by the FREEPSY project team, based at the University of Essex, UK. Over a series of meetings across the years of our research project, we will host guests from free clinics and scholars from various territories aiming at stretching our collective repertoire on what free psychoanalytic are, can be and how they operate across different contexts. We envisage fostering an intimate network of researchers & clinicians of psychosocial orientation that can discuss texts, think together and produce alternative types of scholarly work together. 

Organised by Ana Minozzo.