Political Mind Summer Series 2026

Dates: Tuesdays 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th June, 7th, 14th July and 21st July | 8:15 - 9:45pm GMT

Organiser: Institute of Psychoanalysis – IOPA / British Psychoanalytical Society (incorporating the Institute of Psychoanalysis)

These weekly seminars will explore the many contemporary political issues of our time from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Programme

2nd June | Unconscious Politics with Giuseppe Caruso and Prof. Bob Hinshelwood
Chair: David Morgan

9th June | The Pathologies of International Relations with Prof. Michael Rustin
Chair: Giuseppe Caruso

16th June | Culture of the Cruel (Hybrid) with Mark Goldblatt, Dr Anna Harvey, Prof. Mark Freestone and Prof. Fanny Guglielmucchi
Chair: Tomaz Fortuna

23rd June | No-Go Areas in Psychoanalysis with David Morgan
Chair: Jeremy Clarke

30th June | Knowledge and It's Pretenders with David Bell
Chair: Dr Anuradha Menon

7th July | Ending Wars with Lord John Alderdice
Chair: Philip Stokoe

14th July | Violence and the Feminine with Professor Lisa Barrister
Chair: Harriet Wolfe

21st July | Establishment Misogyny and Paedophilia: How and why has it continued so long? with Philip Stokoe
Chair David Morgan

These lectures will be recorded and available for 1 week.