Forthcoming:
2026
23rd February1:30-3 pm GMT. Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies Open Seminar. In person [University of Essex, Colchester Campus] or online. Register via Eventbrite.
In this seminar, Lizaveta van Munsteren will present her book, The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930-1980 (2025), which considers the changing fortunes of psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia. The book offers new readings of figures such as Bluma Zeigarnik, Alexander Luria, Filipp Bassin and Dmitry Uznadze, and presents a nuanced understanding of Soviet studies of the unconscious and the role of language in the formation of the mind and in mental disturbances. The book presentation will be followed by a conversation with Norman Gabriel about childhood development and the influence of Soviet figures on debates and practices in psychoanalysis today.
Past:
2026
10th February 2026 The book launch of ‘Black Oedipus’ by anthropologist Rita Segato, translated from Spanish by Ramsey McGlazer (1968 Press, 2026) at The Freud Museum and the launch of A DICTIONARY OF MONEY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS.
2025
Freud Reading Group
Join our monthly reading group dedicated to exploring key Freudian texts with the focus on its relevance to contemporary psychoanalytic practice. Open to psychotherapy trainees, students, and practitioners, this group offers a reflective space to deepen your understanding of foundational psychoanalytic ideas and consider their ongoing significance in the consulting room.
The group will run for one year, meeting monthly in Central London, and new participants are welcome to join at any time, subject to space availability. Get in touch via contact@lvanmunsteren.com to express your interest in joining the group.
BOOK LAUNCH The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930–1980
You’re warmly invited to celebrate the launch of my first book, The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930–1980 (Routledge). The evening will feature a conversation between Lizaveta van Munsteren, Raluca Soreanu, Catherine Humble, and Natalya Chernyshova, an open discussion, and a wine reception.
Friday, 10th October — Doors open at 6:30 PM, event starts at 7:00 PM
Swedenborg House, 20–21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH
RVSP via Eventbrite page.
2024
15th November 2024 The book launch of ‘My Farewell to the Yellow House’ (1927) by psychoanalyst and psychiatrist István Hollós, translated from Hungarian to English (1968 Press, 2024) at The Freud Museum.
16-17th November 2024 Psychoanalysis & Radical Psychiatry. A major international conference on the creative boundary-crossing between psychoanalysis and radical psychiatry at Wellcome Collection.
van Munsteren, L. ‘Psychoanalysis for all: public engagement and educational activity of the Ambulatorium in Vienna 1920-30s’. The European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) conference, University of Essex, June 2024.
van Munsteren, L. ‘Learning from free clinics: psychosocial implications for the psychoanalytic clinic’. Association for Psychosocial Studies and Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society joint conference. St Mary’s University Twickenham, June 2024.
van Munsteren, L. ‘Transitions’, (Panel ‘Psychoanalytic Free Clinics and Care Infrastructures: Practices and Utopias’), ‘Caring Futures: Contradictions, Transformation, and Revolutionary Possibilities’ Conference, The American University of Paris, France, 29 May 2024.
2023
van Munsteren, L. ‘On Psychoanalytic Position Within Patriarchy. An intervention, ‘Money and Psychoanalysis: Economies of Care’ Conference, The Freud Museum, London, 13-14 October 2023. https://www.freud.org.uk/event/in-person-money-and-psychoanalysis-economies-of-care/
van Munsteren, L..‘Stretching the Frame or Stretching History?’, Inside-Outside Community in the Mind and the Mind in the Community, The Consortium for Therapeutic Communities, Birmingham, UK. 18-19 September, 2023. https://therapeuticcommunities.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Inside-Outside-The-Community-in-the-Mind-and-the-Mind-in-the-Community-TCTC-Conference-2023-1.pdf
van Munsteren, L. ‘We have no psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union, and we are very much against it!‘, Imágó Budapest, The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 7 June 2023.