BUG and The House of St Barnabas Present: All Families Are Psychotic

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All Families are Psychotic

The family and our competing definitions of what it should be now occupies a place at the centre of British political and social debate.

The right believes the conventional family is a unit so worthy that it ought to be rewarded financially. The left embraces unconventional family models, but is still careful to reference "hardworking families" when talking to the electorate. Religious leaders weigh in, psychotherapists blame family relationships for dysfunctional behaviour – and the rest of us muddle along as best we can.

Is anyone right? Do families help or hinder? And most importantly can we ever escape their influence?

"All families are psychotic", a talk hosted by Bug in partnership with the HOSB, considers these questions. Hosted by Miranda Sawyer, the debate will ask why and how the idea of "family" become such a contentious subject at a time when socio-sexual attitudes are held to be loosening. Do they "fuck you up, your mum and dad"? All Families Are Psychotic seeks to find out.