report by Harriet Mossop, PhD student and Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.
What does psychoanalysis say to radical psychiatry and vice versa? This question permeated the second major conference of the UKRI-funded FREEPSY project, which studies free and low-cost psychoanalytic clinics around the world. The conference was organised in collaboration with the Psychosis Therapy Project and Usemi Racial Trauma Clinic, with founder and clinical director, Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz.
As Raluca Soreanu, FREEPSY lead, set out in her introductory remarks, the conference asked what psychoanalysis can do when it becomes entangled with other practices and emancipatory movements, and what social and political utopias might emerge from intersections between psychoanalysis and radical psychiatry. Over two intricately structured days, researchers, clinicians, artists, filmmakers and archivists took us to little-known times and places, brought us in contact with ‘othered’ forms of knowledge, and considered the circulation of ideas between radical psychiatry movements in different parts of the world.
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