Site member, Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz, founder of the innovative and radical Psychosis Therapy Project, in association with Islington Mind, was interviewed by Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkholer last year to talk about her work with the Project. Full text below. Psychosis Therapy Project: An Innovative Psychoanalytic Treatment Program // An Interview with Dorothée Bonnigal- Katz […]
Three SITE members are involved in this groundbreaking one-day Conference to be held at the Freud Museum this coming March. The day is convened by Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz and includes papers from fellow SITE members Haya Oakley and Barry Watt. Details below. CONFERENCE: Psychosis and Psychoanalysis 20 March 20169.30am – 5.00pm History – Politics – Theory […]
SITE member Dorothée Bonnigal Katz will be presenting a paper, Psychosis, Embodiment and the Ineffectiveness of Symbols, at the forthcoming interdisciplinary conference at the Freud Museum on October 24th. Dorothée, along with her fellow participants, will be responding to Claude Lévi-Strauss’s paper, The Effectiveness of Symbols and will be addressing the question: Why do symbols have such […]
Site member Barry Watt will be giving a talk on the relationship between housing and mental health issues at the PEER Gallery n Hoxton, London. He will be discussing the work of RD Laing and Lacan with respect to the notion of ‘foreclosure’, understood both as the psychological mechanism generative of psychosis, as well as […]
This new translation by SITE member and leading translator of psychoanalytic theory, Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz, is the first English version of Scarfone’s text. The book was originally commissioned as part of the Presses Universitaires de France’s series Psychoanalysts d’aujourd’hui in 1997 and, rather than a mere overview of Laplanche’s work, presents an insight into the theoretical innovations and […]
This centenary symposium, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, brings together scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud’s most important metapsychological papers: ‘On Narcissism: An Introduction’ (1914) and ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ (1915). The Symposium will take place on March 11th and 12, 2015 and […]
Site member Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz will be presenting a paper on Thursday 14th November at the Psychoanalysis Across the Disciplines Speaker Programme at The University of Warwick. Her paper, ‘The Place of Psychosis in Freudian Metapsychology and Technique: Topographical and Clinical Reflections’ deals with the complex and paradoxical place psychosis occupies within the Freudian corpus. While […]
SITE members Angela Kreeger and Andie Newman are convening a series of group discussions on the challenges of becoming a mother, as part of the Bowes & Bounds Psychotherapy Network in north London. Andie and Angela are offering a safe, supportive and confidential space for exploring the variety of feelings which can arise at this […]