1.5 CEs are available for New York State psychologists, social workers, licensed mental health counselors and psychoanalysts.

*Ian Parker's biography → on the "Speaker Series" page*

This presentation will be in three parts. First, I will describe the recent attempt to set up a 'Red Clinic' in the UK as an internationalist initiative making connections, while respecting the necessary disconnection between politics and clinical work - between the 'red' and the 'clinic' aspects of our work (https://www.redclinic.org/). Second, this will be linked to a reflection on what we learn about the relationship between psychoanalysis and revolution in different contexts, outlining the rationale for the recently co-authored project 'Psychoanalysis and Revolution' (https://psychoanalysisrevolution.com/). Third, we will then look at the difference between closed bureaucratic visions of communism, those characterised as ‘stalinist realism’ and a more inclusive democratic conception of communism and its implications for psychoanalytic work.