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Lynne Layton – The Social Unconscious
In this interview, hosted by Mad in America, Layton discusses social psychoanalysis. She explores how her construct of “normative unconscious processes” can illuminate how oppressive systems are continually internalized and reproduced, both inside and outside the clinic. Read more
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International Online Conference: Radical Listening: Collective Practices, Histories and Possible Futures (Free Admission)
International Online Conference, Monday 14 & Saturday 19 July 2025 (Organised by the FREEPSY collective) About this event 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… Read more
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The Stoop Can Also Be a Couch: A Psychoanalytic Manifesto. By: Maria Verónica Laguna, LCSW
This manifesto introduces psychoanalytic thinkers and projects from around the world that have been “othered,” bringing psychoanalysis beyond the couch and into the streets. I believe that psychoanalysis must step out of the office and onto the stoop, to meet and engage with “neighbors”—theories, paradigms, and approaches that allow it to fulfill its own values. Read more
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Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge. By : Aneeza Pervez
ABSTRACT This paper examines the complicity of academic institutions in the ongoing Palestinian genocide, arguing that silence actively sustains settler colonialism, erases Palestinian narratives, and inflicts psychological harm. Drawing on Galtung’s structural violence and Butler’s concept of grievable lives, it critiques the selective engagement of universities with geopolitical crises, exposing colonial hierarchies. Using autoethnography as… Read more
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My Journey as a Black Trainee in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. By Ugo Chijiutomi
A trainee’s personal account. I am sure many BIPOC clinicians can relate. Read more
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Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 