Events

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Evidence in practice & prevention: CORC Forum 2026

The Child Outcomes Research Consortium’s (CORC) annual forum is a half day event for mental health, research, and education professionals

26 November 2026

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Assessment Skills Training at the bpf

Taking place across three Saturdays, this Assessment Skills training is suitable for psychotherapists who wish to further develop their skills in this particularly interesting area of work, as well as recently qualified psychotherapists. The training follows the process from initial contact with a potential patient to its conclusion, whether privately or through an institution.

03 October 2026 - 28 November 2026

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Disturbance and Creativity Hybrid Conference

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.

28 November 2026 - 29 November 2026

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Free Clinics: The Past & Future of Psychoanalysis

How do free psychoanalytic clinics question and expand the horizons of what psychoanalysis can be and who it is meant for? This conference is dedicated both to the legacies of historic free clinics and to contemporary work done by free and low cost psychoanalytic clinics around the world.

04 December 2026 - 06 December 2026

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“I Can’t Let You in Dave” Reflections on AI

This essay approaches the transformation of human subjectivity under conditions of digital life through the combined resources of psychoanalytic theory and close attention to the cinema of Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky.

04 December 2026

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Endings: Partial, Abrupt and Avoided Endings

With Dr Joyce Slochower Termination is one of the most consequential yet least straightforward phases of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. While classical psychoanalytic theory has traditionally given termination a clearly defined place within the treatment, clinical endings are often far more complex. Treatments may end abruptly, remain unfinished, continue indefinitely, or shift into new forms of relationship. For therapists, these moments bring questions about dependency, separation, loss, attachment, professional boundaries and the meaning of the therapeutic relationship into particularly sharp focus.

04 December 2026

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Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis Autumn 2026

12 October 2026 - 07 December 2026

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An Introduction to Therapy with Couples

Join us on this 11-week online seminar series where participants will explore what it is like to work with couples in therapy.

21 September 2026 - 07 December 2026

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Therapeutic Relationships

Mental health work is emotionally demanding and relationship-focused. This course uses psychoanalytic ideas to help practitioners better understand these dynamics and improve care.

13 October 2026 - 08 December 2026

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LLP 2026 – Knowledge and its Pretenders

This new online course is closely related to the publication, in November, of a two volume work “Knowledge and its Pretenders: perspectives on Freud and Klein”.

15 October 2026 - 10 December 2026

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New Imago Forum 2026: Trust

The New Imago Forum is an interdisciplinary psychoanalytic conference. It carries forward the tradition begun in 1912 by Sigmund Freud, when he founded Imago, a journal for psychoanalysis in relation to other fields. The New Imago Forum began as an outreach by the British Psychoanalytical Society to universities in 2007 and has since grown into a long-standing annual meeting of clinicians and academics in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The conference aspires to create the conditions for deep and sustained interdisciplinary dialogue, combining formal papers and extended discussions between presenters and participants on a particular theme.

11 December 2026 - 13 December 2026

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Short Course – Understanding & Working with Adults

UNDERSTANDING AND WORKING WITH ADULTS FROM A PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE Intended for analytically trained Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Registered with the Association of Child Psychotherapists

02 October 2026 - 11 December 2026