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Fascination and horror about psychoanalysis. Reflections on C. Gheorghe’s article ”Decolonization, polarization, psychoanalysis, privilege”. L. Poenaru
Addressing the intersection of two polemical concepts, psychoanalysis and the University, exposes us to the intersection of various taboos that risk parasitizing the logical coherence of our proposal. The taboos of psychoanalysis are well-known, since they are at the origin of its exclusion from academic and clinical circles: persistence of theoretical dogmas, methodological and epistemological Read more
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Hybrid Conference: Psychoanalysis & Radical Psychiatry. Saturday, November 16, 2024
A major international conference on the creative boundary-crossing between psychoanalysis and radical psychiatry. Psychoanalysis was profoundly involved in rethinking the practical and theoretical bases of psychiatric care in the twentieth century. Psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic collectives, in a plurality of sites across the world, have been invested in reimagining the power relationship between doctor and patient, Read more
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Sleeping Dogs: Psychoanalysis and the Socio- Political. Orna Guralnik (2016)
Psychoanalysis deals with what unconsciously mediates our relationship to reality. Our “ordinary clinical terms” (Holmes, this issue) include the press of drives and its fantasy derivatives, the history of early attachment and object relations, lifetime and intergenerational legacies; these are the elements that we assume shape psychic reality. As a discipline we are less likely Read more
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Psychoanalytic Object relations theory as a necessary foundation of social democracy October 8, via Zoom.
Speaker: Prof Michael Rustin Tuesday 8th October 20248:15pm – 9:45pm BST These discussions will be delivered remotely via Zoom.Recording available for 1 week Now that we are beginning another period in which a Labour government is in office, what expectations do we have about what kind of society it might encourage into being? Do we expect little more Read more
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A Political Mind Special – “Muslims and the West. A psychoanalyst reflects”. October 1st via Zoom.
Speaker: Fakhry Davids Chair: David Morgan Tuesday 1st October 20248:15pm – 9:45pm BST These discussions will be delivered remotely via Zoom.Recording available for 1 week Fakhry Davids MSc (Clinical Psych) is a psychoanalyst in full-time clinical practice. He is a Fellow and Training Analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society, a Member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists, a Read more
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 