WHAT WE ARE UP TO

Following the vibrant energy of our fourth meeting, the Free Clinics Working Group (FCWG) convened for its fifth iteration on Monday, 15th of September, in person at LiFt in London and online with colleagues peppered all around the globe. We were honoured to host a profound session of discussion and sharing in the presence of international collaborators and guests, centring on the travelling concept of ‘Territorial Listening’.

Online December 10^th 6-7:30 pm, Freud Museum London 

In this online event, hosted by the Freud Museum, we welcome Klara Naszkowska, editor of Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance to discuss her book with our FREEPSY member Ana Tomčić, who contributed to the publication. Join us for a discussion that will touch explore a range of female analysts that played a role in the early development of the field of psychoanalysis.

We are thrilled to announce that the FreePsy Project will be participating in the upcoming La Conference 2025, organised by the Corpo Freudiano Vancouver. This significant event, titled ‘Feminine Desire: Honouring the Life and Work of Anne Dufourmantelle and Mari Ruti’, will take place from October 17-18, 2025, in the vibrant city of Vancouver, BC, in Canada.

The evening will feature a conversation between Lizaveta van Munsteren, Raluca Soreanu, Catherine Humble, and Natalya Chernyshova, an open discussion, and a wine reception.

Exploring Mental Health Commons and Creative Togetherness

At FREEPSY, we are launching a collection of zines, meant to crystallise moments when we come together with colleagues and collaborators from around the world, to focus on an idea, such as mental health commons or radical listening. These zines are published in both physical and digital form, and they are free to read and download. We hope they will travel far and spark up new exchanges.

LCCT conference online stream organised by the FREEPSY collective. Monday 14 & Saturday 19 July 2025

Can ‘listening’ foster new forms of relationality in a collapsing world? What forms, formats, rituals and infrastructures of listening to one another have made life liveable, enjoyable or, simply, possible in recent times?

This online event brings together colleagues from various fields of research and practice to share stories, archival material, ethnographies, speculations or theories around forms of listening to individual or collective experiences that offer a radical mode of witnessing and togetherness, especially in challenging contexts. The event features papers, presentations and creative interventions addressing listening as an act of ethics and of care, where more than just recognition is at stake, rather, when a joint construction of a world-in-common can unfold.

SIPP/ISSP 2025 Conference. 25-27 of June 2025, University of Essex. 29 of June, Freud Museum, London with an updated conference brochure.

We are delighted to invite you to join our collective stream on the theme of ‘Radical Listening: Collective practices, histories and possible futures’, which will be a part of the upcoming London Conference in Critical Thought being held at Birkbeck College London, 20th-21st June 2025.

The FREEPSY team will be hosting this discussion and we will hear from colleagues from across the world, scholars, clinicians and activists. 

Can ‘listening’ foster new forms of relationality in a collapsing world? What forms, formats, rituals and infrastructures of listening to one another have made life liveable, enjoyable or, simply, possible in recent times? 

This talk is part of the conference ‘What is “Nature” in Human Nature’, held at the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, June 12 and Friday, June 13, 2025

‘What is “Nature” in Human Nature’ is an international conference on the annual theme ‘Being Human’. In memoriam of Donna Orange.

Speakers include: Sam Adriaenssens, Marlen Bidwell-Steiner, Max Cavitch, Marcus Coelen, Dominik Drexel, Nadine Hartmann, Esther Hutfless, Ulrike Kistner, Georgia Panteli, Nicholas Ray, Jil Salberg, Raluca Soreanu, Ruud Welten, Herman Westerink, Jenny Willner

On this occasion, Raluca Soreanu will deliver the talk ‘On Trauma and Psychic Splitting in the Psychoanalytic Clinic: Sándor Ferenczi for Our Times’