Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for our Times
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
We are delighted to announce the publication of Black Oedipus by Rita Segato, newly translated from Spanish by Ramsey McGlazer and published by 1968 Press as part of the Important Little Books in Psychoanalysis series. On 10 February, we celebrated the book’s launch with an evening symposium hosted by Freud Museum, bringing together the author, translator, and an extraordinary group of scholars, writers, and psychoanalysts for a rich and urgent conversation.
New article published in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, authored by Raluca Soreanu & Ana Minozzo, available in Open Access format.
Continue reading “‘Manifesto for Infrastructural Thinking: Living with Psychoanalysis in a Glitch’, by Raluca Soreanu & Ana Minozzo”CCEH Boardroom and LibraryExeter, Devon
Monday, June 29 • 11 AM – 3:30 PM
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Continue reading “The FREEPSY Collective at the Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter. Online & In-Person Event.”Join us for the next FREEPSY Free Clinics Network multi-lingual skill-sharing event from 3-4:30 pm on Monday 15th June 2026.
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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.
Continue reading “‘Escrita da Escuta’: Ethics of the Encounter and the Position of the Foreigner”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.
March 30th 2026, 6-7:30pm GMT, Online
In 2025, the FREEPSY research team created an online database of more than 250 free psychoanalytic clinics around the world. We started to connect the free clinics through online meetings in different languages.
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.
Continue reading “FREEPSY Visual Cartography Workshop:”We are happy to announce the launch of A Dictionary of Money and Psychoanalysis.
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