The theme of this years’ event offers a chance to reflect as individuals, as a group and as a ‘community of communities’ upon what we each bring to the TC and how this collectively shapes it. Do we arrive feeling ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ of the community and why? What are the personal, professional and psychosocial factors involved?
The FREEPSY team will participate this year with the keynote presentation and the panel.
Whether you are in a therapeutic community, an enabling environment, a therapeutic childcare setting or aspiring to work in a less medicalised and more relational and value-based way, come and find your place.
We will be hearing about communities of very different kinds, considering how TC-based therapeutic ecology could revolutionise UK children’s homes, hearing about the free clinics set up by Freud and his colleagues in the 1920s and perhaps hearing about the innovative work and new developments in your organisations.
This event is designed for those who work with Children and Young People, in Adult Mental Health settings, or the Criminal Justice and Addictions settings, and for anyone who has lived experience of such settings. We hope to see more people of colour, and those identifying as  LGBTQ+ or non-binary, who may not have attended our events before. All are welcome. We believe everyone can bring something of value and find value in community.
Contributions from the FREEPSY team:
18th September, Keynote Presentation 1: Prof. Raluca Soreanu – Freud’s free psychoanalytic clinics and the issue of the group.
Panel Presentation:Â 3x connected presentations with panel discussion
- The Hawkspur Camp (1936-1940) and Its Legacy: An Early Case of Psychoanalytic Group Therapy for Young Offenders – Dr Ana Tomcic
- Psychoanalysis In-Common: An Ethics of Togetherness and the Therapeutics of Commoning the Clinic – Dr Ana Minozzo
- Stretching the Frame or Stretching History? – Dr Lizaveta van Munsteren
The Woodbrooke Center
1046 Bristol Rd, Birmingham B29 6LJ
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