Conjuring and our Conscious Experience: Why Magic Works
Magic is one of the oldest art forms, and for centuries conjurers have created illusions of the impossible by distorting your perception and thoughts. Advances in Psychology and Neuroscience offer new insights into why our minds are so easily deceived and I will explore some to the mechanisms that are involved in magic
The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia & the Revolution in Mental Health Care
Writer and Professor of Modern Italian History, John Foot discusses his latest publication, The Man Who Closed the Asylums (Verso August 2015) - The fascinating story of Franco Basaglia, one of the key intellectual and cultural figures of 1960s counterculture—a contemporary of R.D. Laing who worked to overturn institutions from within and ended up transforming mental health care in Italy.
The Art of Freestyle and the Unconscious Mind
How do ideas pop into your head? You can think about the answer to this question at a lecture and performance about the art of Freestyle Rap by Hip-Hop artist and spoken word poet, Reveal
Rorschach Audio
The book Rorschach Audio: Art & Illusion for Sound, by author and installation artist Joe Banks, takes as its central metaphor the comparison between the perception of ambiguous speech-sounds, and the “projective” interpretation of the famous ink-blot tests devised by the Freudian psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach in 1921.
The Unconscious from Freud to Lacan
This talk will look at Freud's 'discovery' of the unconscious, and at his conceptualisation of it
Conference: Music and Psychoanalysis: Composers, Performers, Analysts
This conference brings together musicologists, psychoanalysts and performers to think about the emotional impact of musical composition and performance.
Our Strange Thoughts
Have you ever had the sudden fear that you didn’t lock the back door? Or the disturbing thought of jumping in front of an oncoming train?
Conference: Do We Need a Critical Psychotherapy? Exploring Talking Therapies in Neoliberal Society
Is it important for psychotherapy to be 'critical' and socially engaged?
What models of 'mental illness' and 'mental health' are appropriate for psychotherapy in the 21st century?
Have mental health services and the 'mental health agenda' become part of the ideological mechanisms of neo-liberal society?
Ian Sinclair – London Overground: A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line
Acclaimed author, Iain Sinclair joins us to discuss his latest book London Overground - a living history of London told through a long day's hike around the London Overground route, by Britain's master psychogeographer
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