‘Psychoanalysis sees human beings as complex and contradictory and the task of psychoanalytic therapy is to slowly unravel our histories to see how they have contributed to our present difficulties.’
The Psychoanalytic Consortium is a network of psychoanalytic groups founded with the aim of keeping the spirit of psychoanalysis alive in a culture which tends to favour quick fix solutions and a simplistic conception of our inner lives.
The website is a significant part of a campaign defending the role of psychoanalysis against proposed government legislation to regulate ‘speaking therapies’ into a school-and-hospitals type system of deliverable results.
Navigate to almost any psychoanalytic website and you will find the standard of graphic design is poor. Texts are often verbose and impenetrable. But this website has an important role in providing a focus for the Consortium's constituent members, and in encouraging the public to get involved in directing the future of speaking therapies.
Photographer Tim Gutt generously donated a selection of images from his unpublished back catalogue. We chose images that don't have obvious associations to retain some ambiguity and sophistication. The homepage images act as the navigation throughout resulting in an intuitive, useable, and visually clean interface without the usual panoply of navigational aids.
www.psychoanalyticconsortium.org
