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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 psychoanalysis—its 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
📕 Lançamento do livro “Fanatismo, negacionismo, mentira: estudos psicanalíticos” A Diretoria Científica da SBPSP, em parceria com a Editora Blucher, convida para o lançamento do livro póstumo de Roosevelt Moises Smeke Cassorla: “Fanatismo, negacionismo, mentira: estudos psicanalíticos”. O autor examina, a partir da psicanálise, fenômenos 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 psychotherapy—yet 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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15-16 May, 2026 Online Conference- Islam: Therapy, Spirituality & Politics The Myth of Therapeutic Neutrality
Part of the established tradition of mental health work is that the therapeutic space is ‘neutral’. This idea of neutrality, developed in the West, has been exported globally to places and people with mixed experiences of many Western conceptions, including justice. Increasingly attention from diverse perspectives critique the idea of therapeutic neutrality as a myth.… Read more
![[Open Access Article] Opening Pandora’s Box: The politics ofthe psychological clinic. By Ilana Côrtes dos Santos & Domenico Uhng Hur](https://psychoanalysisandsocialjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-3.png?w=1024)
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 