Disturbance and Creativity Hybrid Conference
Book ticketsOrganised by:
Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London
Description
Location: In Person at Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health – UCL, and Online via Zoom
About
“Some forms of ill-health, debility or anaemia, may (if other circumstances are favourable) produce an efflux of poetry in a way approaching the condition of automatic writing … we do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.” – T. S. Eliot
Join us in November 2026 to explore the origins of creativity, the complex relationship of creativity with health and disturbance, and the contributions of psychoanalysis to understanding and facilitating creative processes, both in the consulting room and beyond.
Speakers
Re-enacting the Scene: creativity under the spell of repetition
Sophie Boswell (British Psychoanalytical Society)
Disturbance, creativity and sublimation
Francis Grier (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and British Psychoanalytical Society)
Creative intercourse in the analytic couple – weathering the storms, bearing disturbance
Heather Wood (British Psychoanalytical Society)
After the event a recording of the conference will be available to registered participants (on request) for 6 weeks.
