Symposium & Book Launch of ‘Psychoanalysis Otherwise’ with Raluca Soreanu & Ana Minozzo

The Freud Museum is delighted to host the launch of ‘Psychoanalysis Otherwise’, a collection edited by the FREEPSY Collective. This evening symposium is dedicated to the publication (6:00pm – 7:45pm), with the presence of editors Raluca Soreanu and Ana Minozzo, authors and guests. It is followed by launch of an exhibition by Ana Čvorović, curated by Sacha Craddock (8pm – 9pm), and a wine reception (9pm – 10pm). The symposium is available both in person and online.

The first part of the evening will be dedicated to the launch of Psychoanalysis Otherwise, a collection of papers by the Free Clinics Working Group (FCWG) at FREEPSY. The Free Clinics Working Group is a collective space of exchange, learning, thinking and writing promoted by FREEPSY.

Over the past four years, FREEPSY hosted guests from free clinics and scholars from various territories aiming at stretching our collective repertoire of what free psychoanalytic clinics are, can be and how they operate across different contexts.

Since 2022, the FCWG has been fostering the establishment of an intimate network of researchers & clinicians of psychosocial orientation that can discuss texts, think together and produce alternative types of scholarly work collectively such as zines, online dictionaries, artwork and essays. Psychoanalysis Otherwise is the fruit of these collective explorations.

On the evening, psychoanalysts Raluca Soreanu and Ana Minozzo will be in conversation with authors and guests, including Susana Caló, Joanna Ryan and Anderson Santos.

The date also marks the first day of the three-week Free Clinics Festival, organised by the FREEPSY Collective. Held between November 16 and December 6 in various locations across London, the Free Clinics Festival includes a series workshops, book launches, conferences, artist talks, exhibitions and more. Please check the FREEPSY website for more information on how to register for the events: https://freepsyproject.com/fcf/.

The second part of the evening will be dedicated to the opening of an exhibition by Ana Čvorović, artist-researcher at FREEPSY, curated by Sacha Craddock. Sound artist Matthew Faulkner will also participate. The exhibition will be displayed on site, at the Freud Museum, over the duration of the Free Clinics Festival.

The two launches will be followed by a reception.

Speakers:

Susana Caló is a researcher and writer. Her work focuses on reconstructing potential histories of radical psy practices, considering their relationship to wider social, political and urban struggles with the aim to develop a critical theory of psychological practices and contemporary psychopolitics. Her most recent publication CERFI: Analysis Everywhere (Minor Compositions) is the result of ten years of collective research into the history and practices of French institutional analysis and psychotherapy, examining their conceptual and socio-political dimensions. She was a co-investigator in The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts (BA, King’s College London), examining the political life of concepts in post-war French thought. She is a founding member of Chaosmosemedia, a rhizomatic project that has organised several international events focusing on the work of the psychoanalyst and activist Félix Guattari. She lectures at the Open University and collaborates with the FREEPSY collective, acting as a consultant and network organiser contributing to the development of a Free Clinics Network.

Sacha Craddock (b. 1955) is an art critic, writer & curator based in London. She is co-founder of ArtSchool Palestine, member of Abbey Council, and co-founder of the Contemporary Art Award at the British School at Rome, Trustee of the Shelagh Cluett Trust, and President of AICA-UK. She was Chair of the Board of New Contemporaries and selection process from 1996 until 2021. Selected critical writing includes essays on Mark Boulos, Angus Fairhurst, Jose Dávila, Chantal Joffe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosa Lee, and Adam Henein, among others. She was the co-founder of Bloomberg Space and its curator from 2002-2011. Her curatorial contribution includes the Turner Prize, Hull 2017, Strike Site at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham 2018, Here, Now at Misk Art Institute 2021, Glossary for Curated by, Vienna 2023, and Thought to Image for Albion Jeune 2024. Latest curatorial projects include PLATAFORMA as International Guest Curator, Guadalajara 2025-2026, and David Garner: I have nothing to say only to show, Penarth 2025.

Ana Čvorović (b. Sarajevo 1981) is a contemporary artist based in London. Her installations are an exploration of the psychodynamics of place, specifically in the context of war, migration, and socio-economic impoverishment. Her solo exhibitions include Archipelago at Ballon Rouge, Brussels (2021) and Borders Unfold at Pi Artworks, London (2019). Recent residencies include Arthouse Jersey for the commissioned project No Place Like Home (2023); FAP, Lebanon (2022) supported by the Foundation for Art and Psychoanalysis; and Sculpture Space, New York (2018) supported by Arts Council England. She is an Artist Researcher on the UKRI-funded project FREEPSY: Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People at the University of Essex.

Ana Minozzo is a clinician and researcher based in London, UK. She holds a PhD and an MA in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck, University of London and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychosocial Studies within FREEPSY, at the University of Essex (2023-2027). She has experience with a number of community-based mental health services, working with migrants, refugees, the LGBTQI+ community and was a part of the Psychosis Therapy Project, in London. Her research crosses the fields of medical humanities, feminism and psychosocial studies, with a special interest in ecofeminism and medical anthropology and has been featured in several edited books and journals internationally. Ana is a full member of The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and a registered UKCP psychotherapist. Her book ‘Anxiety as Vibration: a Psychosocial Cartography’ was published by Palgrave in 2024.

Raluca Soreanu is a psychoanalytic and psychosocial thinker and writer. She is Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK, and a psychoanalyst, member of the Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, UK. She is the author of Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave, 2018) and the co-author, with Jenny Willner and Jakob Staberg, of Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe (Leuven University Press, 2023). She is the project lead of the interdisciplinary research project FREEPSY: Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for Our Times (UKRI Frontier Research Grant); Academic Associate of The Freud Museum London; and Editor of the Studies in the Psychosocial series at Palgrave and of the Important Little Books in Psychoanalysis Series at 1968 Press. Her latest book is The Psychic Life of Fragments: On Splitting and the Experience of Time in Psychoanalysis.

Anderson Santos is an editor and organizer of the books Passagens por La Borde: clínica e instituição (Passages through La Borde: Clinic and Institution) (2026, cinco edições), Uma política da loucura e outros textos – François Tosquelles (A Politics of Madness and Other Texts – François Tosquelles) (2024, Sobinfluencia edições and ed. Ubu); Psicanálise e Esquizoanálise: diferença e composição (Psychoanalysis and Schizoanalysis: Difference and Composition) (2022, n-1 edições) among others. He holds a degree in Psychology, is a psychoanalyst, a member of the Coletivo Psicanálise na Praça Roosevelt, a specialist in ‘Saúde Mental, Imigração e Interculturalidade’ (Mental Health, Immigration and Interculturality) from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), and holds a master’s degree in Health Sciences (UNIFESP).

Matthew Faulkner is designer of immersive, multichannel soundscapes, tailored for exhibition spaces and galleries in collaboration with visual artists, as well as for live performance venues and home listening. His sonic backdrops invoke extended realities, liminal and uncanny spaces, and moods that can be as soothing as they are unsettling, through the collage of found sound, musical textures and voice. His frequent work with artist Ana Čvorović is an ongoing collaboration and expression of discourse, psychology, existentialism and abstraction through sound and vision, and in an early show featuring Matthew’s soundscapes (Closeness, Refuse: Refuge: Re-fuse, The Koppel Project, London, 2016) he developed his idea of a simulated room tone; a sonic-backdrop that is non-invasive and hidden, but is evocative of another reality and impactful without making itself known. It is through his collaboration with Čvorović that he was invited to work with FREEPSY on the Hollós Project, developing the Multi-Tonal Reading composition in 2025. His soundscapes for The Stranger are realised through engagement with Čvorović’s sculptures and the Hollós Project, made using extracts from the contributors’ readings of Hollós as well as field recordings and synthesised textures. A suite of 3 pieces from this collection is currently on display as part of The Fragile Self (Semmelweis Museum, Budapest, Hungary) alongside various Hungarian psychiatric art collections, and the Multi-Tonal Reading composition. His soundscapes and ambient music are collected into his Akousmatter portfolio, which is available online.

Joanna Ryan is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has worked widely in clinical practice, teaching and supervision; in academic research; and in the politics of psychotherapy. Her latest book is Class and Psychoanalysis: Landscapes of Inequality (Routledge, 2017). She is also co-author (with N. O’Connor) of Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities: Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis; co-editor (with S. Cartledge) of Sex and Love: New Thoughts on Old Contradictions; author of The Politics of Mental Handicap and many other publications.

Tickets:

Solidarity Ticket – £26.94

Standard Ticket – £16.40

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The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the Freud Museum London, which receives no regular Government income. We are grateful to you for supporting our independent museum as generously as possible.

The event will be held on the first floor of the Museum during regular opening hours. Unfortunately the Freud Museum does not have step-free access at this time. Advance booking is highly recommended as capacity is limited.