WHAT WE ARE UP TO

September 4, 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.

August 22, 2023August 22, 2023

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 150^th 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”.

July 31, 2023July 31, 2023

FREEPSY OPEN LETTER: THE FREE CLINICS NETWORK

Please read, respond and share!

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.

May 23, 2023July 28, 2023

Ferenczi Dialogues at The Freud Museum London

Symposium and book launch of ‘Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe’, with authors Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg, Jenny Willner, at The Freud Museum, on July 7, 6pm to 8:30pm.

A symposium and book launch dedicated to the volume Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe (Leuven University Press, 2023), by Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg, and Jenny Willner. To mark Sándor Ferenczi’s 150th birthday, on July 7 the three authors will be in conversation with cultural theorists, psychoanalysts and the audience on Ferenczi’s contemporary relevance for psychoanalysis and social theory. We will celebrate Ferenczi’s birthday, while thinking through his enduring voice. This event will also mark the acquisition of the Sandor Ferenczi’s Archives at the Freud Museum.

With the participation and commentaries by: Lisa Baraitser, Antal Bókay, Ana Minozzo and Ana Tomcic.

May 18, 2023July 24, 2023

COMADRES Launch Event: A Free Clinic for Latin-American Womxn in London

On Saturday, May 27th 2023, 3pm and 6pm, London, the Psychosis Therapy Project and USEMI Racial Trauma Clinic are organising the launch of COMADRES, a free therapeutic service for Latin-American Womxn in London, in alliance with FREEPSY, and with psychoanalyst Patricia Gherovici as guest speaker.

COMADRES is a free clinic for Latin-American Womxn in London, with a specialist team of Spanish and Portuguese speaking therapists. The launch brings together mental health professionals, grassroots organisations, and members of the Latin-American community to celebrate COMADRES. There is an increased demand for therapeutic support in the Latin-American community. In response to this, COMADRES offers free support to women with experiences of trauma, violence, and migration across London. Socio-economic precarity, domestic abuse, language and immigration hurdles are other common features in the experiences of the women they target.

April 6, 2023July 28, 2023

‘Schizoanalysis and Feminism’ online seminar, Monday, 24th of April run by Ana Minozzo

Our postdoctoral researcher Ana Minozzo will be taking part in this open series hosted by a Brazilian research lab. She will run the session on ‘Schizoanalysis and Feminism’ on Monday, 24th of April, at 7pm Brasília time and 11pm BST, online.

March 21, 2023July 28, 2023

International Sándor Ferenczi Network: Raluca Soreanu in conversation with Adrienne Harris, Jakob Staberg and Jenny Willner

On Saturday, April 1st 2023, at 5pm London time and 12pm New York time, the International Sándor Ferenczi Network (ISFN) will host a conversation dedicated to the recently published book Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe (Leuven University Press, 2023). The authors, Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg, and Jenny Willner, will be in conversation with Adrienne Harris.

March 18, 2023July 28, 2023