Directory of Northern Psychoanalytic Events
The list below aggregates information about events which might be of interest to colleagues and friends of the trust. Events which are either online or are being held in the North (Yorkshire, North West, North East, Cumbria, and Scotland) are displayed. This list is updated automatically twice a week and so if an event has recently been published is may not appear here immediately.
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Foundation Certificate in Couple Counselling and Psychotherapy
Online, N/A
Apply for Tavistock Relationships’ Foundation Certificate in Couple Psychotherapy. If you are considering a career in psychotherapy and couple counselling, Tavistock Relationships’ our Foundation Certificate in Couple Counselling and Psycho...
Find out moreBasic Groupwork Skills In-House Training
In-house / Online, N/A
Group Analysis North (GAN) offers an introductory groupwork skills training for staff teams of 10 or more. This training helps staff acquire practical skills and knowledge to develop and facilitate groups, providing a good starting point fo...
Find out moreWhy Stories Matter
Online, Online
A series of three webinars exploring how children use stories to make sense of the world. This online series of presentations and discussions seeks to explore the dynamic relationship between individual and collective stories, psychoanalysi...
Find out moreIJP conference: On Extreme Violence (online)
Online, N/A
We are living in violent times, with the wars in the Middle East, Ukraine and many other regions, the rise of far-right populism, cancel culture, and the mass displacement of refugees. Some external violence has entered the consulting rooms...
Find out morePolitical Mind Special | Earthly Powers: Mourning
Online via Zoom, Online
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Find out moreBPA Introductory Lectures – Psychoanalysis: Key Concepts and a Contemporary Perspective
This series of lectures introduces fundamental psychoanalytic ideas and explores a range of topics in greater depth. Delivered by BPA Psychoanalysts, presentations are followed by a group discussion. The series is organised to build systema...
Find out moreChild and Adolescent Analysis: Clinical Work Discussion Seminar (Hybrid)
10 Windsor Walk, London
Roberto Marongiu will be in dialogue with psychoanalysts Kathryn Pugh and Fatima Martinez Del Solar. This event is open to all professionals, and would be of particular interest to clinicians working in child and adult psychiatry, psycholog...
Find out moreMaudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Child and Adolescence
10 Windsor Walk, London
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Find out moreBPA Study Day | ‘Our Adult World and its Roots in Infancy’
87-89 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3NT (In-person & Online), London
This study day explores how unresolved trauma and adversity from childhood impact adult functioning. It investigates conflicts and anxieties across developmental stages—infancy, latency, and adolescence—and how they manifest in adult clinic...
Find out moreGetting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: Melanie Klein’s work with Dick – the first psychoanalytic treatment of a child with autism (Online series)
Online via Zoom
Maria Rhode will explore Melanie Klein's 1930 seminal paper, 'The importance of symbol formation in the development of the ego', which opened up areas that remained central to her groundbreaking psychoanalytic theories. As the editors of th...
Find out moreMaudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Human Destruction
Online and 10 Windsor Walk, London
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Find out moreThe work of Barbara Dockar Drysdale. A hybrid event convened by IPCAPA & Squiggle
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Find out moreThe Bacchae: The Mind of Ancient Greece, Psychoanalysis
Online and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, Byron House, London
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Find out moreBPA Event | The Poetic Mind Seminar – What in Me is Dark? Paradise Lost and Psychoanalysis
89 Prince of wales Road, NW5 3NT (Online and In-Person), London
This talk explores the psychological insights of John Milton’s Paradise Lost and its influence on psychoanalytic thinkers like Freud, Jung, Klein, and Jordan Peterson. It delves into the inner landscapes of Satan, Adam, and Eve, revealing h...
Find out moreFairy Tales in Childhood: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Online and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, Byron House, London
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Find out moreInstitutional Harm
Online and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, Byron House, London
Focusing on the theme of Institutional Harm, this conference aims to explore its impact within various settings and dynamics.
Find out moreGetting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: Finding the child in the adult (Online series)
Online via Zoom, N/A
As part of our ongoing series on Kleinian concepts, Kate Pugh will explore Klein’s pioneering early work with child patients using play, how it shaped her theories of emotional development in early infancy – radical and controversial at the...
Find out moreBenevolent and Toxic Aspects of Object Relationships (Hybrid series)
Online via Zoom or in person at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, London
Gianna Williams and Roberta Mondadori offer eight clinical seminars over four Saturday mornings with in depth discussion of detailed material. The Saturday mornings will include two seminars, each of which will consist of a short and detail...
Find out moreBenevolent and Toxic Aspects of Object Relationships (Hybrid series)
Benevolent and Toxic Aspects of Object Relationships
Find out moreFriday Seminars: The Centering of ‘Whiteness’ and its Impact in Group Analysis and Therapeutic Practice.
Online, Online
This online workshop, led by members of the Disrupting Whiteness Group, invites consideration of how social power dynamics are recreated in trainings and clinical applications. It explores what it means to be white in a racist society and h...
Find out moreGetting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: Balancing on a tightrope of mania – a precarious normality (Online series)
Online via Zoom, N/A
This event continues our exploration of Kleinian thinking with a focus on different aspects of child psychoanalysis. Judith Jackson will explore how certain manic defensive organisations can be used to sustain a very fragile sense of self a...
Find out moreKarl Figlio - "What and Where is the Father and His Masculinity"
Online
Karl Figlio will be speaking on “What and Where is the Father and His Masculinity”. Karl Figlio is Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex; Clinical Associate, British Psychoanalytical ...
Find out moreFriday Seminars: When Art Therapy Meets Group Analysis
Online, Online
Presented by Camilla F. Matthews, an art therapist, psychotherapist, and group analyst, this online seminar explores the intersection of art therapy and group analysis. Camilla brings years of experience working with trauma, personality dif...
Find out moreBPA Scientific Conference | Psychoanalysis on the Spectrum: Encounters with Primitive Mental States
A one-day conference for those working psychoanalytically with children and adults. It explores primitive mental states and existential bodily terrors, originally described by Frances Tustin in children on the spectrum, but also encountered...
Find out moreGetting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: Primitive anxieties and idealisation – implications for self-harm and violence in adolescence (Online series)
Online via Zoom
Catalina Bronstein will examine violence in adolescence – whether directed toward the self or toward others – as a response to intolerable feelings and persecutory phantasies. Drawing on Klein’s theories of primitive unconscious phantasy, t...
Find out moreAnnual Barbara Dick Memorial Lecture 2026: Learning from Experience - some reflections on the difficulties of learning in life
Mercure Georgian House Hotel, Bolton
This lecture argues that the organising idea within group analysis might not be therapy but the capacity to learn and to change through experience. Both Wilfred Bion and Carl Rogers wrote about learning from experience, but what do we mean ...
Find out morePost ILS Freud Seminars
Online via Zoom, N/A
This series of seminars explores Freud's work, following on from the Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis.
Find out moreConversations about Authors: Eminent colleagues discuss Priscilla Roth’s collected papers, ‘Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis’ (Online)
Online via Zoom
Join us for an online discussion of Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2025), a collection of Priscilla Roth’s papers that demonstrates her unique contribution to psychoanalysis over the course of her distingu...
Find out moreFriday Seminars: Knowing, Not-Knowing, and the Anxiety of Finding Out: Learning in the University, in Psychotherapy and in Life
Online, Online
Antony Froggett, Director of Thinking Space Consultancy and a training group analyst, presents this online seminar exploring the paradoxes of learning and change through experience. Drawing on ideas from Bion and Carl Rogers, it questions w...
Find out moreGetting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: Plenary event – the evolution of Klein’s thinking on childhood development (Online series)
Online via Zoom
This plenary pulls together the different strands of thought and discussion from our previous Getting to Grips events on Klein’s groundbreaking theories of childhood development and child analysis. It will also set the scene for further exp...
Find out moreGetting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: Plenary event – the evolution of Klein’s thinking on childhood development (Online series)
Online, N/A
This plenary pulls together the different strands of thought and discussion from our previous Getting to Grips events on Klein’s groundbreaking theories of childhood development and child analysis. It will also set the scene for further exp...
Find out moreActive Citizenship Developing Group Dialogue – Online CPD Event
Online, Online
An online CPD event for professionals working with groups, exploring active citizenship and how group analysis can enable, empower, and restore dialogue. The event includes an introduction to and participation in “the Trilogy” – a moderated...
Find out moreIOPA Edinburgh conference: Turning a Deaf Ear (in person)
Edinburgh
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Find out moreIGA Qualifying Course In Group Analysis (Manchester)
Manchester, Manchester
A full professional training in group analytic psychotherapy offered by the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA). This block-based course, running over a minimum of three to four years, is designed for professionals throughout the UK and overs...
Find out moreWork Reflection Group (In-Person)
Bolton, Bolton
This supervision group offers a safe, supportive, and stimulating space for participants to reflect on their clinical and organisational work using group analytic ideas. It is open to anyone interested in thinking about their groupwork and ...
Find out moreWork Reflection Group (Online)
Online, Online
This supervision group offers a safe, supportive, and stimulating space for participants to reflect on their clinical and organisational work using group analytic ideas. It is open to anyone interested in thinking about their groupwork and ...
Find out moreEnglish Speaking Weekend Conference: Listening to Antigone (Hybrid)
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Find out moreEnglish Speaking Weekend Conference: Listening to Antigone (Hybrid)
Hybrid, Hybrid
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Find out moreIGA Qualifying Course Open Session
Manchester, Manchester
This open session provides an opportunity to learn about the IGA Qualifying Course. Prospective applicants are encouraged to attend to understand the admission criteria, application process, and to determine if the training aligns with thei...
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