This summer, our FREEPSY researchers, Prof Raluca Soreanu and Dr Ana Minozzo took part in the International Society of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (SIPP-ISPP) conference which took place in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Continue reading “ SIPP Conference 2023: Limits, Frontiers, Rims and Borders. 21-23 September 2023, University of Nicosia, Cyprus. “‘Translucent Walls’ at the International Conference on Art and Health 10th November 2023, MAAT Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
Artist Researcher Ana Čvorović and PhD Researcher Julianna Pusztai are showcasing their collaboration at the International Conference on Art and Health in Lisbon, Portugal, scheduled for 10th November 2023.
Continue reading “‘Translucent Walls’ at the International Conference on Art and Health 10th November 2023, MAAT Museum, Lisbon, Portugal“Midlands Conference In Critical Thought. 5-6th April 2024. Call for Papers, deadline 6th December 2023
We are delighted to invite you to join our collective stream on the theme of “Mental Health Commons: Fantasy, Utopia and Infrastructure”, which will be a part of the upcoming Midlands Conference of Critical Thought being held at Nottingham Trent University on April 4th and 5th 2024.
Continue reading “Midlands Conference In Critical Thought. 5-6th April 2024. Call for Papers, deadline 6th December 2023“Plural Approaches to the ‘dividual’: Politics, Space, Bodies, Digital
Our Postdoctoral Researcher, Ana Minozzo, will be presenting some of her current FREEPSY research on the international colloquium ‘Plural Approaches to the ‘dividual’: Politics, Space, Bodies, Digital’ happening in Lyon, France on the 24th and 25th of October, 2023.
Continue reading “ Plural Approaches to the ‘dividual’: Politics, Space, Bodies, Digital “Money and Psychoanalysis: Economies of Care
Two-day conference by FREEPSY in collaboration with The Freud Museum London. Friday 13 and Saturday 14 October 2023. ORGANISERS: RALUCA SOREANU & IVAN WARD
Money and its circulation have a fantasy dimension. At the same time, money is an important aspect of how care can be offered and organised.
In this conference, we are guided by a series of questions about the paradoxes and opportunities of money. How do money and ideas circulate in our times? How can we make sense of alternative and anti-capitalist forms of circulation, and how do these appear in different fields of practice? What can psychoanalysis offer for understanding the issue of money? What does a psychosocial theory of value look like? What is the relationship between political economy and libidinal economy? Finally, are we traversing a crisis of care, and if so, what are some creative attempts to initiate new forms of circulation, amounting to economies of care?
Continue reading “ Money and Psychoanalysis: Economies of Care “Kwame Yonatan’s Book Launch. ‘Por Um Fio: Uma Escuta das Diásporas Pulsionais’, 2023, Calligraphie
‘Is Samba therapy too?’
This last 28th of April celebrated the release of our colleague and ally Kwame Yonatan Poli dos Santos’ book in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Unlike usual psychoanalytic book launches, held at bookshops and academic conferences, Por Um Fio: Uma Escuta das Diásporas Pulsionais (By a Thread: Listening to the Diasporic Drives) was welcomed into the world at one of Rio’s most special venues, to the sound of music, dance, food, children play and chatter.
Continue reading “ Kwame Yonatan’s Book Launch. ‘Por Um Fio: Uma Escuta das Diásporas Pulsionais’, 2023, Calligraphie “Inside-Outside. Community in the Mind and the Mind in the Community Conference. 18th -20th September 2023
The theme of this years’ event offers a chance to reflect as individuals, as a group and as a ‘community of communities’ upon what we each bring to the TC and how this collectively shapes it. Do we arrive feeling ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ of the community and why? What are the personal, professional and psychosocial factors involved?
The FREEPSY team will participate this year with the keynote presentation and the panel.
Continue reading “ Inside-Outside. Community in the Mind and the Mind in the Community Conference. 18th -20th September 2023 “The Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis (SSCP)
The Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis (SSCP) has recently joined the FreePsy Free Clinics Network. This Autumn the SSCP is running an online Introductory Course in Social and Critical Psychoanalysis. Course Lead, Dr Guy Millon and Training Committee Chair, Dr Sally Sales have contributed a guest blog about the upcoming course and the activities that the SSCP is engaged in, including running a low-cost clinic and full psychoanalytic training in the South West of the UK.
How might we take a critical approach to psychoanalytic thought and practice? In what ways can we ensure that psychoanalysis is grounded in the contemporary social field? In the Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis (SSCP) we have a critical and comparative engagement with traditional and contemporary theories and practices of psychoanalysis and the social, political and philosophical discourses that generate and produce them. We have a commitment to exploring how the specificities of race, gender, sexual orientation, class and disabilities shape and form the people who come to clinical work.
Continue reading “ The Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis (SSCP) “Therapy in Creative Spaces, by João Adolfo Nogueira and Luís Miguel Vieira
What makes a conversation a psychoanalytic encounter? Is it a consulting room? Is it a couch? Perhaps it is a flow of free associations that is thought of in an analytic way? Or is it a work with the transference?
In their presentation at the Ferenczi’s 150th Anniversary Conference in Budapest, training psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist João Adolfo Nogueira together with his colleague, psychotherapist and psychiatric nurse Luís Miguel Vieira, engage the above questions. Below is a commentary on this presentation, discussing their clinical experience of working in the project ‘Consultations without Walls’, which began in 2019 and is ran by the Manicómio Association, based in Lisbon. There, as they state: “a new paradigm emerges from associating the open space (open space sessions) and art, and building a different therapeutic setting where the unconscious is resymbolized”.
FREEPSY OPEN LETTER: THE FREE CLINICS NETWORK
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Dear colleagues,
We are the members of the FREEPSY research project team, based at the University of Essex, UK.
You are receiving this letter and invitation to answer a few questions because you might be someone who works (or worked) in free or low-cost psychoanalytic clinics. We will use your responses to the questions in the form below to put together a Free Clinics Network, which we hope will be relevant to both patients and psychoanalysts globally, aiming to promote shared practices among clinicians and to widen access to psychoanalytic treatment. Ultimately, our aim is to make visible a rich free psychoanalytic clinics tradition and to build a network of psychoanalysts interested in the social mission of psychoanalysis.
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