One hundred years ago, Sigmund Freud lived through a global pandemic. The Freud Museum’s topical new exhibition explores the similarities between Freud’s experience of the Spanish Flu and 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on mental health and the response by psychoanalysts. 1920/2020: Freud and Pandemic is on display at the Freud Museum London from 19 May 2021 to 12 September 2021.
This short video was created during the darkest weeks of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unusually for us, but reflective of the circumstances, all contributions were recorded remotely via Zoom.
We are very grateful to those who kindly shared their inspiring work and reflections, allowing us to appreciate the continuing relevance of psychoanalytic thinking and practice:
Psychoanalysis During the Pandemic
Dr Virginia Ungar
psychoanalyst
President of the International Psychoanalytical Association
Trauma and Survival Anxieties
Dr Joanne Stubley
psychoanalyst and medical psychotherapist
Trauma Service, Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust,
Part of Coalition for Psychoanalysis in the NHS
Pandemic Dreams
Prof. Mark Blagrove
psychologist
DreamsID Project
Sleep Laboratory, Swansea University
Dr Julia Lockheart
artist
DreamsID Project
Racism and Anti-Racism
Dr Beverly Stoute
psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and School of Medicine
Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society
Freud’s Vaccine
Prof. Brett Kahr
psychotherapist, historian, former Trustee of Freud Museum London
Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology
Balint Consultancy