BPC event – Supervision and its vicissitudes: a psychoanalytic discussion
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Description
Date: Friday, 20 March 2026
Time: 14:00 – 15:30
Price: Registrant – £35, Trainee member – £25
Online, Zoom Meetings
This event is for BPC Registrants and Trainee members
Event description:
Following on from our event exploring the duty of candour and themes about safe ethical practice, the BPC continues its CPD event series highlighting our Standards of Conduct, Practice and Ethics.
Supervision is not only a requirement of all Registrants of the BPC but it is also an essential component of ethical practice because it helps us to reflect and think about what it is we are doing in our work.
We will be inviting Michael Brearley and Juliet Rosenfeld for a candid discussion about psychoanalytic attitude within supervision: exploring the ups and downs of supervision, the dynamics and the difficulties, the role of supervisor and supervisee and obligation of duty of candour.
We will hear from Michael Brearley about his significant experience as a supervisor over the many years he has practiced in the psychoanalytic field. There will then be an opportunity for questions and reflections from the audience.
Please familiarise yourself with the BPC Standards of Conduct, Practice and Ethics in particular standard 7, prior to the event.
The first part of the event will be recorded and will be available to Registrants for 14 days. For trainee members the recording will be available as a free resource. It is however an invaluable experience attending the event live and participating in the reflections and Q & A.
Programme:
| 14:00 | Event opens and welcome |
| 14:05 | Introduction by Juliet |
| 14:20 | Discussion between Juliet and Michael |
| 14:55 | Q & A and reflections |
| 15:25 | Closing statement |
| 15:30 | Close |
About the speakers
Michael Brearley is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He has been working in private practice for 40 years. He has also been a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, a professional cricketer, and a writer – on psychoanalysis and on cricket and leadership. He has written several books, including The Art of Captaincy (1985), On Form (2017), and Turning over the Pebbles, a Life in Cricket and the Mind (2023). Michael has been supervising colleagues since the 1990s, and his central approach to supervision in psychoanalytic work is trying to evoke or facilitate an analytic attitude in the supervisee. A large part of the role is, as with being a therapist (or a parent), helping the other to find their own way within an overall orientation.
Juliet Rosenfeld is a psychoanalyst and member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a UKCP and BACP accredited psychotherapist. Juliet was an elected Trustee of the UKCP Board from 2019-2022 and is currently Clinical Trustee at the Freud Museum. She is a frequent contributor to newspapers and publications writing on mental health and the author of two books ” The State Of Disbelief” (Hachette, 2020) and “Affairs, True Stories of Love, Lies, Hope and Desire” (Pan Macmillan 2025.) Her doctoral work at UCL considers the decline of monogamy and marriage in the UK focusing on women, and what perspectives psychoanalysis brings to the changing relational landscape.
Juliet studied at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and has a Masters from Regents University in Integrative Psychotherapy. She has been an Honorary Psychotherapist at the Camden Psychotherapy Unit and in the Tavistock Couples Department. She consults at the Queen Anne Street Practice where she sees adult individuals and couples. She is interested in statutory regulation and increasing access to psychoanalytic ideas to a wider non-clinical audience and policy makers.
