The Free Clinics Network is under construction. It brings together clinical institutions and practitioners around the world involved in offering free or low-cost psychoanalysis. The Free Clinics Network is relevant to both patients and psychoanalysts globally, aiming to promote shared practices among the clinicians and to widen access to psychoanalytic treatment.
In the Free Clinics Network, and in the context of the project FREEPSY, patients are regarded as co-creators of a context of care, and not ‘service users’; and psychoanalytic and other mental health practitioners are refigured as contributors to collective action and collective creativity, not ‘mental health providers’.
The Free Clinics Network was prepared through an ESRC Impact Acceleration grant (University of Essex). A series of mapping workshops with researchers, artists, mental health practitioners, psychoanalysts, and cultural workers, held at The Freud Museum in 2022 and 2023, produced the first multi-perspectival map for the Free Clinics Network.
Please assist us in putting together this Network by answering a set of questions that help us locate and describe your institution and your practices. Please feel free to forward this email and form to other colleagues who work in free or low-cost clinics.
Please get in touch with us with any questions, thoughts, recommendations, events and free-associations that might help us build the Free Clinics Network or establish contact with psychoanalysts working with individuals and groups who do not usually have access to psychoanalysis.
Details about how we will use your information are included in the form. Please add your answers below:
https://forms.gle/EssvPc9x8HGYSm9R8
To see the Free Clinics list follow this link.
