Psychoanalysis & Radical Psychiatry

Organised by the project in collaboration with the .

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, the representation of madness, and the conception of the psychiatric institution and its role in health and illness. This conference aims to bring into focus the experiments, practices and theoretical underpinnings of this creative boundary-crossing between psychoanalysis and radical psychiatry, including the early involvement of psychoanalysis in psychiatric care in Budapest of the 1920s and 30s. We put the ideas and practices of the Budapest School into dialogue with other traditions of radical psychiatry – from France, to the UK, to Italy, the USA and Latin America – and to celebrate the legacy of radical psychiatry today.

The conference will bring together an interdisciplinary network of scholars and practitioners, including psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychosocial thinkers, artists, social theorists, historians, cultural theorists, art historians, film makers and archivists.

The event is preceded by a book launch at the Freud Museum on Friday 15 November.

Pre-Conference Book Launch & Reception
Friday, 15 November 6pm-8.30pm
The Freud Museum London

Please apply for separate tickets from the Freud Museum if you want to come to the book launch of ‘My Farewell to the Yellow House’ (1927) by psychoanalyst and psychiatrist István Hollós. ‘My Farewell to the Yellow House’ is an event-book: a manifesto that aims to rethink the practical and theoretical bases of psychiatric care. The launch will include commentaries by: Raluca Soreanu, Monika Perenyei, Mónika Takács and Antal Bókay (preface authors); Adrian Courage & Kristina Valendinova (translators); Graham Smith & Daniel Bristow (editors), Matt ffytche & Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz (guest speakers).

Book separately:

9am – 9:15am Opening and Welcome
Raluca Soreanu & Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz

SATURDAY SESSION 1
9:15am – 10:30am

Haya Oakley
Was the British version of the so called “anti-psychiatry” movement a failed experiment, a utopian dream or a radical discourse changer?

Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz
Reflecting on 10+ years of Psychosis Therapy Project: Now what?

Discussant: Ana Minozzo
Chair: Barry Watt

10:30am – 11:00am break

SATURDAY SESSION 2
11.00am - 12.00pm

Earl Pennycooke
Shades of the clinical and political in the analysis of racial trauma

Discussant: Dione Dalley
Chair: Ivan Ward

12:00pm – 12:30pm
Exhibition Opening & Commentary:
Artist Ana Čvorović & Curator Sacha Craddock

12:30pm – 1:30pm lunch break

SATURDAY SESSION 3
1:30pm – 3:20pm

Camille Robcis
Institutional Psychotherapy and the Saint-Alban Experiment

Ramsey McGlazer
Basaglia Unbound

Gabriel Mendes
Fanonian Sociogeny and the Antiracist Psychiatry of Harlem, NY’s Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic

Discussant: Candela Potente
Chair: Alexander Miller

3:20pm – 3:40pm
Archival material commentary:
Ewan O’Neill & Mónika Takács

3:40pm – 4pm break

FILM SCREENING SATURDAY
4pm – 6:15pm

Screening: ‘Història potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la por’ [‘The Potential History of Francesc Tosquelles, Catalonia and Fear’] (2021) by Mireia Sallarès, co-written with Joana Masó, with the presence of Mireia Sallarès

6:15pm – 6:30pm break

6:30pm – 7:30pm
Film round-table discussion
Mireia Sallarès, Raluca Soreanu, and Magda Schmukalla

SUNDAY SESSION 1
9:30am – 11:15am

Anna Borgos
“He acted like Svengali, and I was Trilby.” Hysterical patients in Hungary in the light of early-twentieth-century medical records

Júlia Gyimesi
Critical Engagements with Psychoanalysis: Reinscribing Psychoanalytic Concepts in Light of Esotericism

Antal Bókay
Responsible Psychoanalysis: The enigmatic messages of the two versions of Ferenczi's Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy

Discussant: Ana Tomcic
Chair: tbc

11:15am – 11:40m break

SUNDAY SESSION 2
11:40m – 1pm

Susana Caló & Godofredo Pereira
Analysis Everywhere: On the research collective CERFI (Centre d'Études de Recherche et de Formation Institutionnelle)

Discussants: Lizaveta van Munsteren & Anderson Santos
Chair: Ramsey McGlazer

1pm – 2pm lunch break

SUNDAY SESSION 3
2pm – 3:50pm

Tania Rivera
Turning inside-out the outside art: How an art atelier in an asylum has invented contemporary art in Brazil

Raluca Soreanu & Monika Perenyei
The Dream Album: The Album of the Angyalföld Museum and the Politics of Presentation of the Asylum in Interwar Budapest

Matt ffytche
The Life Left in Madness: The Notebooks of Aimable Jayet at St-Alban

Discussant: Magda Schmukalla
Chair: tbc
3:50pm – 4:10pm break

SUNDAY SESSION 4
4:10pm – 5:30pm
Final Conference Roundtable with All Speakers

This conference aims to raise money for the free psychoanalytic clinics movement, by proposing a series of differential participation fees (including solidarity fees). The gains of the conference will be donated to one or several free psychoanalytic clinics.

This initiative is part of a long-term commitment of both the FREEPSY collective and the Psychosis Therapy Project to explore creative and sustainable ways to support free psychoanalytic clinics and to contribute to mental health commons.

CPF certificates available on request.

Organised by the FREEPSY Research Project in collaboration with the Psychosis Therapy Project London (PTP)

https://freepsy.essex.ac.uk

https://www.ptp-usemi.org.uk

Captions (top to bottom)

A detail from a painting by ‘outsider artist’ Carlos Pertuis (Brazil)
The Lafargue Clinic (left) and Kingsley Hall (right)
Details of sculptures from Ana Čvorović’s project ‘Translucent Walls’
A still from the film ‘Història potencial de Francesc Tosquelles, Catalunya i la por’ by Mireia Sallarès, co-written with Joana Masó.
A makett of Lipótmező (the National Mental and Neurological Institute in Budapest) made by a patient in 1917. Photo: Péter Hámori

Host or Publisher Psychosis Therapy Project and USEMI Racial Trauma Clinic