Geographies of Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis currently finds itself in a crucial moment that is  apparently contradictory: on the one hand it has to ever increasingly engage with pharmacological therapies and with psychological techniques that are significantly different from itself, on the other, it is expanding in countries very distant from the historical psychoanalytical culture. We need to understand whether psychoanalytical concepts are universal and if its therapeutic methodology is effective in different countries worldwide. This project works to promote research and reflection on this complex and fascinating topic.

Interviews




Read interviews with Derek Hook and Ashis Nandy.

Videos




Watch these short addresses to camera recorded at the 2015 conference held in Rome.

Migrant Minds




Image credit: William Kentridge

Afriche



A window dedicated to Africa, a continent which remains essentially absent from the ‘world map’ of psychoanalysis and yet is ever more present in Western reality in spite of suffering from reductive representations which range from the compulsive survival of a colonial imaginary to radically dystopian visions, neither of which are able to give expression to the complexity of its reality.