The Political Mind Series 2025

Organised by:

British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)

Description

These weekly seminars will explore the many contemporary political issues of our time from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Event Programme:

27th May | “The infectious power of unconscious beliefs in relationships, organisations and society” – Philip Stokoe

3rd June | Covid-19 era: A critical appraisal of the mainstream public health and psycho-social narrative – Marco Chiesa

10th June | Resisting Ideological Pressures: The Need for Critical Conversations in Gender Dysphoria Treatment. – Marcus Evans

1st July | The ‘Epidemic’ of Adult ADHD: Lessons from Historical Socio-Psychiatric Phenomena – Dr Derek Summerfield

8th July | “The ‘Impossibility’ of Working in the Current NHS: Sacrifice to a Primitive God” – Dr Rachel Gibbons.

15th July | “Policing the analytic space: the BPC code of practice and its new “no go areas” – Jeremy Clarke

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