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Dear Scholars,

We hope you're well and enjoying your summer break during the somewhat changeable weather. The BPC Board and Team and busy prepping for our flagship conference PPNow 2026 and we recently opened tickets for booking. We'd love to see as many BPC Scholars in attendance as possible so grab your ticket soon. For more information on the conference, other BPC news and news from our Scholars community, keep reading below.

If there's anything you'd like to suggest or see in the Scholars' Study going forward, do get in touch.

PPNow 2026

We've recently opened tickets for our next flagship conference, PPNow 2026. The conference is titled The slippery slope: boundary violations in the consulting room and in our institutions. In this conference, we will explore how and why such violations happen, and what can be done to prevent them.

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PPNow 2026

We've also announced that our PPNow 2026 Awards are open for nominations! The awards are an important opportunity to recognise and celebrate outstanding individuals and organisations within our psychoanalytic community. We will be announcing the award winners at the conference. To nominate your colleagues, click 'Learn More' below.

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New Associations Spring Issue 2026

Our Spring edition of our flagship magazine New Associations is out now.

In Issue 48 of New Associations focuses on how we make meaning of our experiences, consciously and unconsciously. Contributors explore the themes of memory, group relations, burnout, hoarding and more in this thought-provoking collection of articles. Also, we celebrate the winners of the BPC Awards 2025 on the final page.

Read your copy now as part of your Scholars' membership.

 
BCA Summer Conference: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender

Birkbeck Counselling Association

18 July '26

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Composing with Spielrein

University of Essex

5 - 6 Sep '26

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Disturbance and Creativity

University College London (UCL)

27 - 29 Nov '26

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AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis by Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska

Scholar, speaker and author Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska recently published a new book with Routledge which is a hybrid work of theory, poetic reflection and experimental memoir about the relationship between humans and generative AI through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Click 'Learn More' below to order your copy. Click here to learn more about Dr Piotrowska's career via our Scholars' Spotlight feature.

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Psychosocial thematic analysis: a reflexive and interpretive methodology

BPC Scholar Nini Kerr has recently co-authored an article with Isaac Chun-Yeung Yu that offers an introductory overview of psychosocial thematic analysis (PTA), a reflexive methodology that integrates psychosocial inquiry into thematic analysis.

Click 'Learn More' below to read the open access article in the Journal of Psychosocial Studies.

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