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FREEPSY NEWS #1 
Introduction to FreePsy project and opening event at The Freud Museum.

FREEPSY NEWS #2 
Report of first FreePsy conference on ‘Money’. Also other conferences that FreePsy researchers were involved with.

FREEPSY NEWS #3 
Reports of fieldwork visits to Brazil and Hungary, and more.

FREEPSY NEWS #4 
Reports of research trips to Berlin and Vienna, plus upcoming conferences and the forthcoming publication of My Farewell to the Yellow House by István Hollós (1927), which may be regarded as one of the first books on ‘radical psychiatry’.

FREEPSY NEWS #5 
Exploration of the important concept of ‘infrastructure’ as used in the FreePsy project and how that impacts our understanding of the ‘mental health commons’. Also a report of FreePsy speakers at the joint APS conference, 2024.

FREEPSY NEWS #6 
Programme and abstracts of the second FreePsy conference Psychoanalysis and Radical Psychiatry. Report of the ‘Free Clincs Working Groups’, FreePsy publications, Visit to Artist researcher’s studio, Update on Free clinics network.

FREEPSY NEWS #7 
Report on FreePsy conference Psychoanalysis and Radical Psychiatry and book launch of My Farewell to the Yellow House (1927). Plus a piece about one of the forgotten pioneers of socially engaged psychoanalysis.

FREEPSY NEWS #8 
Upcoming conferences – abstracts and themes. Report on the latest developments of the FreePsy Network. Launch of the ‘Important Little Books in Psychoanalysis’ series. Recent publications. Photos from the art exhibition on display at the Radical Psychiatry conference.

FREESPY NEWS #9 
Report of the sound art project ‘Breaking Down the Walls of the Asylum’, launched at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Congress 2025. Report of FreePsy strand on ‘Radical Listening’ at the London Critical conference. FreePsy at APS conference and SIPP conference. Launch of the FreePsy Network online. Launch of the ‘Mental Health Commons’ Zine.

FREESPY NEWS #10  
‘Radical Listening’ Online Conference, Working Group on Territorial Listening, The Hollós Sound Art Project, Network news, and more.

FREESPY NEWS #11 
Transgender issue with posts by G Lori Millonj, Lorna Simm, Gustavo Machado, Alice Kentridge & Iggy Robinson, Louise Ashcroft, Raluca Soreanu, Cecilia Montenegro & Alba Rueda, Ana Tomcic, Lucy Lamia Tătărușanu & Millie Fry, and Harriet Mossop.

FREESPY NEWS #12 
Call for support for the continued independence of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies (PPS) at the University of Essex, Black Oedipus Book Launch and Evening Symposium, and the publication of A Dictionary of Money and Psychoanalysis.

FREESPY NEWS #13  
Visual cartography and update of the Free Clinics Network, DIY Psychoanalysis, Capitalism & Mental Health conference, a new community service in South London, launch of Raluca Soreanu’sThe Psychic Life of Fragments.