Paranoid States

Daniel Pick reflects on paranoid states in individuals & wider communities, revisiting some classic psychoanalytic accounts.

Speaker: Daniel Pick, Psychoanalyst, Training Analyst and Historian.

Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society and a professor of history at the University of London. Alongside his clinical practice, he teaches and conducts research in Birkbeck’s Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, collaborating with colleagues in several other departments. Pick has been profoundly influenced by Freud, Klein, Bion, and contemporary Kleinian thinkers in London, as well as other clinicians, writers and theorists from various schools of thought, in the UK and abroad. He has written about analytic theory historically, but analytic theory has also informed Pick’s historical investigations into the interaction of individuals and groups, the struggle for and against freedom of mind, and the many guises assumed by anxiety in psychic social life. As both psychoanalyst and historian, Pick is constantly engaged with the question of how the past bears upon the present: whether a history is a personal one, or a national or cultural one, it at once shapes us and is shaped by us in its telling.

Joint Organisers: Severnside Institute of Psychotherapy & Institute of Psychoanalysis