Political Mind Summer Series 2026

Organised by:

British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)

Description

Political Mind Summer Series 2026
Date: Tuesdays, 2nd June to 21st July, 8:15pm

Join us for a seminar series exploring how unconscious psychological forces shape politics, society, and today’s global crises. Leading speakers offer fresh insights into the tensions between individual experience and social structures in an increasingly unstable world.

2nd June | Unconscious Politics with Guiseppe Caruso and Prof. Bob Hinshelwood

9th June | The Pathologies of International Relations with Prof. Michael Rustin

16th June | Culture of the Cruel with Dr Anne Harvey, Prof. Mark Goldblatt, Prof. Mark Freestone and Fanny Guglielmucchi.

23rd June | No-Go Areas in Psychoanalysis with David Morgan

30th June | Freud Tragedy and Modernity with David Bell

7th July | Ending Wars with Lord John Alderdice

14th July | Violence and the Feminine with Lisa Baraitser

21st July | Establishment Misogyny and Paedophilia, How and why has it continued so long? with Philip Stokoe.

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