WHAT WE ARE UP TO

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’

In this symposium, the FREEPSY collective explores crisis, critique and creativity in relation to psychoanalytic free clinics. We discuss the reconfigurations of the psychoanalytic frame related to racist and heteropatriarchal societal crises. We imagine a post-human feminist intervention in the clinical realm, while exploring the possibility of a drive to care. Finally, in a collective presentation, we talk to the audience about a recent experience of constructing and mobilising a global Free Clinics Network. In this collective conversation, we aim to open up a futurity pertaining to a new ‘clinical ecology’, which puts suffering at the centre of a reconfigured social bond. 

On May 22nd 2025, the FREEPSY collective, in collaboration with sound artist Matthew Faulkner, release the multilingual sound project ‘Multi-Tonal Reading: Breaking Down the Walls of the Asylum’ via Bandcamp.

This sound art piece starts from voicing ‘multi-tonal readings’ of the book ‘My Farewell to the Yellow House’, written in 1927 by Hungarian psychiatrist and psychoanalysts István Hollós (2024, 1968 Press). Fragments of the book are read out by more than twenty voices, in seventeen languages. The voices are then composed in a sound art piece. 

On the 23rd of May, 9:30am – 11am (online), the FREEPSY collective and its collaborators will present a creative panel at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities conference: TONGUES: Medical Humanities across linguistic and cultural frontiers

This creative panel will document an on-going public engagement project, authored by an interdisciplinary research collective (FREEPSY), which consists in voicing ‘multi-tonal readings’ of the book My Farewell to the Yellow House, written in 1927 by Hungarian psychiatrist and psychoanalysts István Hollós, and recently translated to English (2024, 1968 Press).