TR Couple Therapy Summer School 2026
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Tavistock Relationships
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Tavistock Relationships Couple Therapy Summer School 2026
Theme: Couple and Family Life in Transition
With Andrew Balfour, Liz Hamlin, Stanley Ruszczynski , Perrine Moran, Martha Doniach, Susanna Abse, Amita Sehgal & Leezah Hertzmann
Join us for our annual Summer School exploring Couple and family life and how it has diversified in ways that increasingly challenge heteronormativity as an unexamined gold standard. Same-sex couples, solo parents, blended and step-parent families, assisted conception, and polyamorous constellations are not peripheral variations but part of the contemporary relational landscape. Yet unconscious ideals about exclusivity, complementarity, legitimacy, and generational order often endure within families, institutions, and clinical thinking itself. How do these ideals shape our formulations, our anxieties, and our therapeutic interventions? This summer school offers couple therapists from experienced to recently qualified a space to reflect on how psychoanalytic practice might engage these evolving forms without reverting to inherited hierarchies of value.
The Summer School is for psychodynamic and psychoanalytic couple-trained therapists already working in the field, and provides a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in cutting-edge thinking with a world-leading couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy institute.
You will learn and grow as a couple therapist through theoretical seminars and twice-daily intensive clinical discussion groups, and will study alongside like-minded people from the UK and around the world. Included in the course fee is a theatre ticket to see the highly acclaimed play Cyrano de Bergerac, which will be attended as a group on the Wednesday evening with a discussion the following day, and depth learning with experts in the field.
For more information about this event, please visit https://trtogether.com/events/couple-therapy-summer-school-2026
For more information about Tavistock Relationships, please visit https://tavistockrelationships.org
