FreePsy Conference 2026 – Call for Papers

Free Clinics: The Past and the Future of Psychoanalysis

December 4th, 5th, 6th 2026, 9am-5pm 

A three-day interdisciplinary conference organised by the FREEPSY Collective

In person at The Lift, 45 White Lion Street, London, N1 9PW & online, via Zoom

This conference is part of the FREEPSY Free Clinics Festival November 16th – December 6th 2026, London

Ana Čvorović
Blue Dreams Series, 2026.
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‘Escrita da Escuta’: Ethics of the Encounter and the Position of the Foreigner

Seminar Series in São Paulo

We are thrilled to share the programme for ‘Escrita da Escuta’ (Writing of Listening) , a series of eleven seminars and writing workshops running from April to October 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil, in partnership with research groups from USP, UNIFESP and us from FREEPSY/University of Essex. The scientific committee and conceptual direction of the series is a collaboration between Dr Alessandra Affortunati Martins, a researcher of Cátedra Edward Said, Dr Ana Minozzo, Postdoctoral researcher at FREEPSY, and Dr Ana Gebrim – together shaping the thematic arc, guest invitations, and the workshop methodologies across both blocks through the year.

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DIY Psychoanalysis and the Free Clinics Archive: forgotten histories and the future of memory with Julianna Pusztai and Ewan O’Neill at the MayDay Rooms

On February 26, 2026, FREEPSY presented at the at the Archiving from Below series of the MayDay Rooms in London. 

In this session, two researchers from Freepsy, Julianna Pusztai and Ewan O’Neill discussed the historical findings from free clinics, grassroots psychoanalytic groups and the future of memory.

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FREEPSY Visual Cartography Workshop:

Building a raft of/for the Free Clinics Network

Free psychoanalytic clinics around the world have created rich visual languages through their online and social media presences, speaking to the clinics’ orientations towards structures of power, theory, and potential patients and collaborators. In February 2026, the FREEPSY research team gathered in Islington, London, together with network facilitator Susana Caló, research assistant Harriet Mossop and designer Hugo Coria, to listen collectively to this visual language. As preparation, we downloaded social media and web images from a selection of the 250 clinics. With the recent FREEPSY newsletter The Transgender Issue in mind, we selected a ‘cut’ of around 400 images from 14[1] clinics in different countries that have a visible orientation towards LGBTQIA+ patients. 

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