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Reading Anna Freud – Author’s Talk: Nick Midgley

In this lecture Nick Midgley considers some ways in which Anna Freud's work can be read today, and suggest that her work is still of value for the way it uses psychoanalytic thinking - both within and beyond the clinical setting - to help us make a difference to the well-being of children and young people

Freud in Zion: Psychoanalysis and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity

Few episodes in the history of psychoanalysis are as densely packed with trans-cultural, ideological, institutional and ethical issues as the arrival of psychoanalysis in pre-state Israel in the early 20th century. 'Freud in Zion' is the first work to explore this encounter between psychoanalytic expertise, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution.

Symposium: Interpreting Collections: Idea, Object, Site

This one-day symposium, timed to accompany the exhibition DreamWork by artist and researcher Christie Brown, considers the relationship between ceramic art practice and museum collections within the broader context of contemporary visual culture. The symposium addresses key areas of inspiration for artists within this context, by focussing on the dialogue between the concept, the collection […]

Football as Therapy

A discussion about the use of football as a means of working with adolescent boys expressing emotional and behavioural difficulties.

‘Memoir’ Jackie Kay and Gillian Slovo in Conversation with Robert Downes

The Relational School (of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy) and the Freud Museum are holding a series of intimate evening forums addressing the subject of memoir from the perspective of how writing and publishing has come to affect the individual’s experience of their own story. Tonight Jackie Kay and Gillian Slovo discuss their autobiographical texts with Robert Downes.

Keeping Schtum – a secret history of Jewish football

This talk unravels the secret history of Jewish football in the UK, Europe and beyond, showing that the game’s transformation would not have been possible without such Jewish Sports Legends as Louis Bookman, Harry Morris, Leslie Goldberg, Mark Lazarus and Morris Keston.