, Values and Webs of Power Saturday 28 September & Sunday 29 September 2019

Lisa Appignanesi is Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, former President of English PEN and former Chair of the Trustees of the Freud Museum. Her many books include Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors and Losing the Dead. Her most recent book is Everyday Madness (May 2019).

Peter Barham has been engaging with the field of madness for more than fifty years. His work straddles clinical research, historical inquiry, mental health activism and filmmaking. He has a Ph.D in modern history from Cambridge and in abnormal psychology from Durham. His books include Schizophrenia & Human Value (1984); Relocating Madness: From the Mental Patient to the Person (1991); Closing the Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society (1992, new edition in preparation for Process Press); and Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War (2004). He was on the staff of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, and a visiting teacher at the Tavistock Institute & Clinic. He was the founder of the Hamlet Trust, which between 1990 & 2007 pioneered grass roots mental health reform in Central & Eastern Europe. He is a founder member of the Guild of Psychotherapists and a chartered psychologist & a fellow of the British Psychological Society. Latterly, he was an associate member of the history faculty at Oxford.

Dr. David Bell is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society where he served as President (2010-2012). He is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Adult Department at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust where he leads a specialist service, The Fitzjohns Unit, for the more complex/severe disorders. He has edited four books: Reason and Passion: A Celebration of the Work of Hanna Segal (1997). Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective (1999), Living on the Border (2013) and Turning the Tide (2018) on the work of the Fitzjohns Unit and written a short book 'Paranoia'. He has published extensively on the relationship between psychoanalysis, literature, philosophy, culture and socio-political issues. He is one of the leading psychiatric experts on issues of asylum and immigration.

Michael Chanan is a seasoned documentarist, writer and Professor of Film & Video at the University of Roehampton, . After films for the BBC and Channel 4 in the 1970s and 80s, for the last 20 years his films have been funded either academically or informally. He has written books on early cinema, documentary, and music, as well as a history of Cuban cinema. He is currently editing a new documentary on ecological issues in Cuba. Lynn Chancer is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her books include Sadomasochism in Everyday Life (1992), Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography and the Future of Feminism (1998), High Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes (2005), Gender, Race and Class (with Beverly Watkins, 2006), The Unhappy Divorce of Psychoanalysis and Sociology (2014), and After the Rise and Stall of American Feminism (2019).

Ian Christie is Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck University of London and also at Gresham College. His current work is mainly concerned with early film in Britain, and with Eisenstein and other Russian figures. He has long been associated with the BPS European Psychoanalytic Film Festival in London.

Fakhry Davids is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytic Society a Fellow of The Institute of Psychoanalysis and a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists. He trained as a clinical psychologist in South Africa and has an active interest in the psychology of racism. He is in full-time clinical practice and teaches, supervises and lectures widely. He is a founding board member of Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities (PCCA), which adapts the group relations method to process the aftermath of mass i such as the Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba. He has published many articles and his books include the co-edited Authenticity in The Psychoanalytic Encounter (2018) and his Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference (2011).

Karl Figlio is a Senior Member of the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association and a Clinical Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He was founding Director of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (now the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies) at the University of Essex and for several years Managing Editor of Free Associations. Recent publications include Remembering as Reparation: Psychoanalysis and Historical Memory (Palgrave 2017); Fundamentalism and the Delusional Creation of an Enemy. In Steffen Krüger, Karl Figlio, and Barry Richards, (eds) Fomenting Political Violence: Fantasy, Language, Media, Action (Palgrave, 2018); "On the Roots of Absolutism," Free Associations December 2018.

Stephen Frosh is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. A Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, throughout the 1990s, he is the author of many papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis. His numerous books include A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory (2012), Feelings (2011), For and Against Psychoanalysis (2006), The Politics of Psychoanalysis (1999), Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions (2013), Simply Freud (2017), and Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgment and Forgiveness published (2019, Palgrave).

Eva Hoffman grew up in Cracow, , before emigrating in her teens to Canada and then the United States. After receiving her Ph. D. in literature from Harvard University, she worked as senior editor and literary critic at The New York Times, and has taught at various British and American universities. Her books, which have been translated widely, include Lost in Translation, Exit Into History and After Such Knowledge, as well as two novels, The Secret and Illuminations. She has lectured internationally on exile, historical memory, cross-cultural relations and other contemporary issues. She is currently a Visiting Professor at UCL and lives in London

Christopher Hauke is a Jungian analyst in private practice, a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London interested in the applications of depth psychology to a wide range of social and cultural phenomena. His books include Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities, (2000); Human Being Human. Culture and the Soul (2005) Visible Mind. Movies, Modernity and the Unconscious.(2013). He has co- edited two collections of film writing: Jung and Film. Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image (2001) and Jung and Film II – The Return. His short films, documentaries One Colour Red and Green Ray and the psychological drama Again premiered in London venues and at congresses in Barcelona, Zurich and Montreal. He is now researching and writing a new book on the limits of rationality, and the place of the irrational in our lives. www.christopherhauke.com

Bob Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, previously Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex (now Emeritus, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies. He was Consultant Psychotherapist in the NHS for many years, and Director of the Cassel Hospital, 1993- 1997. He has a long association with Free Associations, and published several. books with Free Association Books, including the Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989), and Clinical Klein (1993).

Kurt Jacobsen is co-editor of Free Associations and research associate in political science at the University of Chicago since 1984. He is author of Freud's Foes: Psychoanalysis, Science and Resistance, International Politics and Inner Worlds: Masks of Reason Under Scrutiny, Pacification and Its Discontents, coeditor of Experiencing The State and Reconsidering American Power, and six other books. His articles have appeared in History of Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Review, Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Free Associations and dozens of journals in the social sciences. He has contributed widely to popular outlets, ranging from The Guardian to The Irish Times to The Statesman in India. He was a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and a Teaching Fellow at the Center for the Study of History of Science, Technology and Medicine then at Imperial College, now at Kings College London. He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and is book review editor for Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture. He also was a care worker ("mental health specialist") in a state mental hospital near Chicago for 5 years.

Lauren Langman is Professor of Sociology at Loyola University, Chicago. He received his PhD in Human Development from the University of Chicago. Although he had planned a career in psychology, as a result of participation in civil rights and anti war movements, his interest shifted to sociology as a way of understanding how social conflict was based on group membership and interests rather than individual personality. As a result, his work as a sociologist has always had an interdisciplinary focus largely concerned with the relations of the historically instantiated social structure and culture to the individual. His books include the forthcoming Twenty First Century Inequality and Capitalism (with David A. Smith), God, Gold, Guns and Glory: American Character and its Discontents (with George Lundskow, 2016), and The Evolution of Alienation: Trauma, Promise and the Millennium(co-edited with Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, 2006).

Carolyn Laubender, PhD, is a lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and director of the BA in Childhood Studies at the University of Essex. Her writing has appeared in Psychoanalysis and History, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Free Associations, and Feminist Theory. Her current monograph project, The Child in Mind: Psychoanalysis, Politics, and the Clinic, theorizes how the child psychoanalytic clinic became a site of experimental political action throughout Europe in the 20th century.

Vicky LeBeau is Professor of English, University of Sussex; she has published widely in the field of psychoanalysis and the humanities, with a particular focus on visual fields. She is a British Psychoanalytic Council Scholar, and a trainee member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is currently a completing a project on psychoanalysis and class.

David Morgan is co-editor of Free Associations and worked as a consultant psychotherapist in the NHS for 25 years at Kings College Hospital, Camden Psychotherapy Unit and The Portman Clinic. He is chair of the Political Minds Seminars at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He regularly contributes to radio and television and lectures nationally and internationally. His recent research has focused on the psychological implications for whistleblowers and the conditions, socially, politically, and psychologically under which a person may "turn a blind eye" or take on the responsibility of whistle-blowing. He also presents a podcast called Frontier Psychoanalyst on BBC i-player. His latest book is The Unconscious in Social and Political Life (2019).

Ian Parker is secretary of Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix and President of the College of Psychoanalysts - UK. His books include Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity History and Autobiography (Routledge, 2019).

Agnieszka Piotrowska is Reader in Film Theory & Practice at the University of Bedfordshire and film review editor at Free Associations. She is a filmmaker and has published half a dozen books, including Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film, The Nasty Woman and the Neo-Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema and, most recently, Femininity and Psychoanalysis: Cinema, Culture, Theory (2019).

Barry Richards is Professor of Political Psychology at Bournemouth University, UK. After training and working in clinical psychology he undertook a PhD in sociology and began an academic career. Prior to moving to Bournemouth in 2001, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Human Relations at the University of East London. His books include Images of Freud: Cultural Responses to Psychoanalysis (Dent, 1989),Disciplines of Delight: The Psychoanalysis of Popular Culture (Free Association Books, 1994), The Dynamics of Advertising (with I. MacRury & J. Botterill, Harwood, 2000), Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror (Palgrave, 2007), What Holds us Together: Popular Culture and Social Cohesion (Karnac, 2018) and The Psychology of Politics (Routledge, 2019). He was a founding co-editor of the Sage journal Media, War and Conflict, and of the interdisciplinary online journal Free Associations. His interests are in the psychosocial dynamics of contemporary politics, especially concerning democracy, polarisation and extremism, and in broader dimensions of cultural change.

Joanna Ryan, PhD, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has worked widely in clinical practice, teaching and supervision; in academic research; and the politics of psychotherapy. Her latest book is Class and Psychoanalysis: Landscapes of Inequality (2017). She also is 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; and author of The Politics of Mental Handicap and many other publications.

Sabby Sagall, formerly Senior lecturer in sociology at the University of East London, is the author of Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide (2014) and the forthcoming Capitalism and Classical Music.

Janet Sayers is an NHS psychotherapist and emeritus professor of psychoanalytic psychology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Her books include Mothering Psychoanalysis, Kleinians, and a biography of the psychoanalytic art critic, Adrian Stokes.

Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, in Psychosocial Studies. She who has written widely on feminism, sexuality, masculinity, ageing and most recently on celebrating moments of collective joy. She is the author of many books, Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure; Why Feminism? Gender, Psychology & Politics; Making Trouble: Life & Politics; Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing. Her latest book is Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy, addressing what remains after the commodification of happiness and well-being. She is currently part of a small working group, the Care Collective, addressing the politics of care, and her next book is tentatively entitled Lean on Me: Disavowals of Dependency.

Valerie Sinason, PhD, is a poet, writer, child psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. She is Founder and Patron of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies, and specialises in working with disability, dissociation and abuse. A former Consultant Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, Anna Freud , Day Unit and Portman Clinic-and Consultant Research Psychoanalyst at St George’s Hospital Medical School, University she is Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist to the University of Cape Town’s Child Guidance Clinic. She has published over 160 papers and 15 solo and Co-edited books .

Roger Smith is Reader Emeritus in the History of Science, Lancaster University and is associated with the Institute of the History of Science and Technology and the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow. He taught in the Department of History at Lancaster for twenty-five years, before taking early retirement. Dr Smith's research has centred on the history of the relations of mind and brain, linked to the rich history of views connecting ‘being human' and nature as well as a philosophical topic. He is author of Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials (1981), Inhibition: History and Meaning in the Sciences of Mind and Brain (1992), The Fontana History of the Human Sciences (1997, published in the U.S. as The Norton History of the Human Sciences); Being Human: Historical Knowledge and the Creation of Human Nature (2007). He was a founder of the journal, History of the Human Sciences.

Sue Vice is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her most recent publications include the co-edited volume Representing Perpetrators in Holocaust Literature and Film with Jenni Adams (2013), the monograph Textual Deceptions: False Memoirs and Literary Hoaxes in the Contemporary Era (2014) and the co-authored study Barry Hines: ‘Kes’, ‘Threads’ and Beyond, with David Forrest (2017). She is currently working on a book about rescue and resistance in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah outtakes.

Estela V. Welldon is psychoanalytical psychotherapist who worked for three decades at the Tavistock Portman Clinics NHS Trust. Presently she works in private practice and lectures worldwide. Author of Mother, Madonna Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood (1988) translated into 13 languages, Sadomasochism (2002), Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Understanding of Perversions, Violence and Criminality (2011) translated into 3 languages, main editor of A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy (1997). Sex Now, Talk Later Karnac (2016) and Sadomasochism in Arts and Politics. In 1997 she was awarded by Oxford Brookes University a D.Sc. Honorary Doctorate of Science and in 2014, she was made an Honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association for her work in helping to understand women who harm children. Visiting International Professor at Universidad Católica Lima Peru since June 2018. Director of 1st Russian (Moscow) course on Forensic Psychotherapy, which started in 2019.

Eli Zaretsky is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Secrets of the Soul, Why America Needs a Left (2004) and Political Freud (2015)