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Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress By Iain Ferguson.Â
Mental ill health has become one of the key ‘public issues’ of the 21st century. According to the World Health Organization, depression currently affects 350 million people. Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress looks at the link between the economic and political system under which we live – capitalism – and the enormously… Read more
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Three Letters, One Crisis: Neutrality, Witnessing and Institutional Failure by David Morgan
Abstract Three letters circulating in response to the Henri Parens Symposium on Resilience in Response to Violence and War crystallise a conflict that has been developing inside psychoanalytic institutions for several years. The letters, from Psychoanalytic Voices for Palestine, from aninternational group of respondents, and from IPA President Herbert Blass, together describe an institution struggling… Read more
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![April 27 [In-Person Event]On Infrastructural Thinking and Free Psychoanalytic Clinics. Raluca Soreanu.](https://psychoanalysisandsocialjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pulsionlogo.png?w=907)
April 27 [In-Person Event]On Infrastructural Thinking and Free Psychoanalytic Clinics. Raluca Soreanu.
Overview In this talk, Professor Soreanu looks at institutional struggles and forms of innovation happening in psychoanalytic free clinics Raluca Soreanu examines the institutional struggles and experimental forms of practice that emerged in psychoanalytic free clinics, situating them within a broader inquiry into the boundaries of psychoanalysisâits relation to money and the fee, and the… Read more
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![April 11, 2026 – Free Book Launch Event [Portuguese] – Fanatismo, Negacionismo, Mentira : Estudos Psicanaliticos de Roosevelt Moises Smeke Cassorla](https://psychoanalysisandsocialjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image-11.png?w=685)
April 11, 2026 – Free Book Launch Event [Portuguese] – Fanatismo, Negacionismo, Mentira : Estudos Psicanaliticos de Roosevelt Moises Smeke Cassorla
đ Lançamento do livro âFanatismo, negacionismo, mentira: estudos psicanalĂticosâ A Diretoria CientĂfica da SBPSP, em parceria com a Editora Blucher, convida para o lançamento do livro pĂłstumo de Roosevelt Moises Smeke Cassorla: âFanatismo, negacionismo, mentira: estudos psicanalĂticosâ. O autor examina, a partir da psicanĂĄlise, fenĂ´menos contemporâneos como radicalização, negacionismo e manipulação da verdade, articulando essas… Read more
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![Mental Health Practitioners Against The Amendment To Trans Act / A statement by Mariwala Health Initiative [India]](https://psychoanalysisandsocialjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image-10.png?w=1024)
Mental Health Practitioners Against The Amendment To Trans Act / A statement by Mariwala Health Initiative [India]
March 2026: Sign the Statement from Mariwala Health Initiative: A Mental Health and Rights-Based Perspective on the Proposed Amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 The Transgender Persons Amendment Bill risks undermining self-determination and causing serious mental health harm through increased gatekeeping and exclusion. Mariwala Health Initiative is calling on MHPs… Read more
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March 27, Online Event – Who Gets to Be a Therapist? Class, Power and the Profession – Clare Slaney
About This Event Class is often missing from the everyday language of counselling and psychotherapyâyet it still shapes who trains, who qualifies, whose knowledge is valued, and who can access support. Join us for a 90-minute live book launch conversation for Counselling and Class: Power, privilege and professionalisation, edited by Clare Slaney, with contributing authors.… Read more
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Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 