Conference

Conference 2025

Our minds often prioritize forgetting over understanding. Memories slip in and out of our grasp—emerging in dreams and nightmares, appearing at the most inconvenient moments, and disappearing just when we need them most

Why some memories linger while others fade remains one of life’s great mysteries. What the conscious mind forgets, the body keeps the score.

On June 13th, PsychArt invites you to a day of talks, workshops, and discussions centred around the theme 'Forgotten Movements.' We will explore how the body and movement are depicted in art, the mind-body dilemma in modern medicine, and how technological progress and the dominance of rational thinking have distanced us from our physical selves.

As patients and practitioners, what are we forgetting about our own bodies? About the bits of us that don’t fit onto standardised forms or fall outside the frame of a Zoom call. From marginalized therapeutic approaches to neglected histories that have shaped care, join us to bring these forgotten movements in the light, and foster a movement towards reconnection and remembering.

Keynote Speakers

Lucy Jones: Journalist; author of Matrescence

Anne Patterson: Psychoanalyst; Maudsley Arts & Psychoanalysis series convenor; European Psychoanalytic Film Festival co-director

Frank Rochricht: Director of Medical Education at East London Foundation Trust; consultant psychiatrist; Body Psychotherapist

Art Competition

Every year PsychArt holds an annual art show: this year's these is 'Lost and Found'. We invite entrants to explore what has been lost to time, to illness, to development, to stigma, to clinical practice; and how they can be rediscovered, reinterpreted, and given new meaning. We invite everyone to contribute pieces - from paintings to sculptures, photographs to mixed media - that redefine the healing journey.