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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? 

Continue reading “Radical Listening: Collective Practices, Histories and Possible Futures (FREEPSY). In person.”

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

Continue reading “Raluca Soreanu at the Freud Museum Vienna: ‘Blue Psychoanalysis: Ferenczi’s Exploration of the Sea in Thalassa’”

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

Continue reading “Keynote Talk by Raluca Soreanu, Colloque ‘Traumatismes et dispositifs d’accompagnement’, Université Bourgogne Europe, Dijon, 5 June 2025”

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. 

Continue reading “FREEPSY SYMPOSIUM at the ‘Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity’ Annual Conference of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS) 9-10 June 2025, St Mary’s University”

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. 

Continue reading “The Hollós Project: Sound Art Intervention on Madness and Society is Now Publicly Available “

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). 

Continue reading “FREEPSY Creative Panel: Multi-tonal Reading: Breaking Down the Walls of the Asylum”

At FREEPSY, we are building a Free Clinics Network (FCN), made up of autonomous clinical collectives worldwide offering free or low-cost psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapy to marginal individuals and populations, while also rethinking the socio-political dimension of mental health.

The FCN aims to map free or low-cost psychoanalytic collectives and promote shared practices among clinicians to widen access to psychoanalytic treatment. We envision the FCN network as a co-built space where collectives, institutions, and clinics can collaborate. This space will foster listening, learning, and practice exchange, recognising patients and analysts as co-creators of a context of care.

If you are involved in a free psychoanalytic clinic, we’d love to hear from you! 

Continue reading “Free Clinics Network, call for “Video Letters””

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 are keen to hear from colleagues from across the world, scholars, clinicians or activists. Please see below the text of the call and a list of invited topics.

Continue reading “London Conference in Critical Thought. 20th/21st June 2025. Call for Papers, deadline April 4th 2025”

The Free Clinics Working Group (FCWG) is a collective space of exchange, learning, thinking and writing promoted by FREEPSY. As an important part of FREEPSY research, the FCWG will hold a space for inscribing historical and contemporary accounts of free clinics into our fields of psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies. By reading, sharing, connecting and writing we challenge the hegemonic historiography of our disciplines which sees psychoanalysis as a Eurocentric canon, investing in the vibrancy of praxes that are either from the Global South or peripheric in their own manner, re-inventing psychoanalysis in their own time.

Continue reading “Free Clinics Working Group #3 Germany edition by Ana Tomčić”

On March 1^st 2025 Raluca Soreanu will be delivering the keynote talk of the Winter Conference at the Guild of Psychotherapists, ‘Brokenness: Fragments and Parts in Psychoanalysis’, in London, where she will be in conversation with Shalini Masih

Continue reading “The Psychic Life of Fragments: On Trauma and Splitting, with Sándor Ferenczi, Keynote Talk by Raluca Soreanu at the Guild of Psychotherapists”