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.

Please note this list is generated with the help of an artificial intelligence model which stays up to date with the events of partner organisations and brings information about them together on this page. Like all AI it can make mistakes so be sure to check the website of the event organiser. If you would like any information about this list, or feel it would be helpful if events from your organisation were included please contact us.

13 December 2025 | British Psychoanalytic Association

BPA Event | The Poetic Mind Seminar – Carve the Runes, then be Content with Silence

89 Prince of wales Road, NW5 3NT (Online and In-Person), London
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Adults
This seminar explores the paradox at the heart of both poetry and psychoanalysis, inspired by George Mackay Brown's words. It delves into how language is used to navigate human experience, focusing on elemental forces, community, solitude, ...
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19 December 2025 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

Child and Adolescent Analysis: Clinical Work Discussion Seminar (Hybrid)

10 Windsor Walk, London
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Child and AdolescenceAdults
This event is open to all professionals, and would be of particular interest to clinicians working in child and adult psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, child and adult psychotherapy, nursing and other areas of mental health for clinic...
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1 January 2026 | Manchester Psychoanalytic Development Trust

Foundation Certificate in Couple Counselling and Psychotherapy

Online, N/A
Category:Course
Clinical Area:Adults
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...
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1 January 2026 | Group Analysis North

Basic Groupwork Skills In-House Training

Client's premises / Online, Various / Online
Category:Course
Clinical Area:Adults
Group Analysis North offers in-house Groupwork Skills training, tailored for groups of 10 or more. The program, spanning 1 or 2 days with additional sessions available, aims to equip staff with practical skills and knowledge for developing ...
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1 January 2026 | Manchester Psychoanalytic Development Trust

Why Stories Matter

Online, Online
Category:Course
Clinical Area:Child and AdolescenceAdults
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...
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7 January 2026 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis Spring Term

Category:Introductory Event
Clinical Area:Adults
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10 January 2026 | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

IJP conference: On Extreme Violence (online)

Online, Online
Category:Conference
Clinical Area:Adults
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13 January 2026 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

Political Mind Special | Earthly Powers: Mourning

Online via Zoom, Online
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Society and PoliticsAdults
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14 January 2026 | British Psychoanalytic Association

BPA Introductory Lectures – Psychoanalysis: Key Concepts and a Contemporary Perspective

Category:Introductory Event
Clinical Area:Adults
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...
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24 January 2026 | British Psychoanalytic Association

BPA Study Day | ‘Our Adult World and its Roots in Infancy’

87-89 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3NT (In-person & Online), London
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Child and AdolescenceAdults
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...
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24 January 2026 | The Melanie Klein Trust

Getting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: Finding the child in the adult (Online series) - Maria Rhode

Online, Online
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Child and AdolescenceAdults
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26 January 2026 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Human Destruction

Online and 10 Windsor Walk, London
Category:Course
Clinical Area:Adults
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31 January 2026 | The Squiggle Foundation

The work of Barbara Dockar Drysdale. A hybrid event convened by IPCAPA & Squiggle

Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:AdultsChild and Adolescence
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31 January 2026 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

The Bacchae: The Mind of Ancient Greece, Psychoanalysis

Online and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, Byron House, London
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Adults
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31 January 2026 | British Psychoanalytic Association

BPA 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
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Adults
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...
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6 February 2026 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

Fairy Tales in Childhood: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Online and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, Byron House, London
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Child and Adolescence
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7 February 2026 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

Institutional Harm

Online and The Institute of Psychoanalysis, Byron House, London
Category:Conference
Clinical Area:AdultsSociety and Politics
Focusing on the theme of Institutional Harm, this conference aims to explore its impact within various settings and dynamics.
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7 February 2026 | The Melanie Klein Trust

Getting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: Finding the child in the adult (Online series) - Judith Jackson

Online, Online
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Child and AdolescenceAdults
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13 February 2026 | Group Analysis North

Friday Seminars: The Centering of ‘Whiteness’ and its Impact in Group Analysis and Therapeutic Practice.

Online, Online
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Society and PoliticsAdults
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...
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6 March 2026 | Group Analysis North

Friday Seminars: When Art Therapy Meets Group Analysis

Online, Online
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Adults
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...
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7 March 2026 | British Psychoanalytic Association

BPA Scientific Conference | Psychoanalysis on the Spectrum: Encounters with Primitive Mental States

Category:Conference
Clinical Area:Child and AdolescenceAdults
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...
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7 March 2026 | Manchester Psychoanalytic Development Trust

Female Sexuality

Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:AdultsSexuality
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14 March 2026 | The Melanie Klein Trust

Getting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: Finding the child in the adult (Online series) - Catalina Bronstein

Online, Online
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Child and AdolescenceAdults
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21 March 2026 | Group Analysis North

Annual Barbara Dick Memorial Lecture 2026: Learning from Experience - some reflections on the difficulties of learning in life

Mercure Georgian House Hotel, Bolton
Category:Conference
Clinical Area:Adults
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 ...
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13 April 2026 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

Post ILS Freud Seminars

Online via Zoom, N/A
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Adults
This series of seminars explores Freud's work, following on from the Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis.
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8 May 2026 | Group Analysis North

Friday Seminars: Knowing, Not-Knowing, and the Anxiety of Finding Out: Learning in the University, in Psychotherapy and in Life

Online, Online
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:Adults
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...
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1 June 2026 | Group Analysis North

Active Citizenship Developing Group Dialogue – Online CPD Event

Online, Online
Category:Seminar
Clinical Area:AdultsSociety and Politics
This online CPD event explores Active Citizenship and developing group dialogue, considering how professionals can integrate Group Analytic thinking into communities. It features an introduction to 'the Trilogy' moderated group exercise, a ...
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13 June 2026 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

IOPA Edinburgh conference: Turning a Deaf Ear (in person)

Edinburgh
Category:Conference
Clinical Area:Adults
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31 August 2026 | Manchester Psychoanalytic Development Trust

Psychodynamic psychotherapy (M58L, Leeds)

Leeds
Category:Course
Clinical Area:Adults
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31 August 2026 | Group Analysis North

IGA Foundation Course in Groupwork

Category:Course
Clinical Area:Adults
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31 August 2026 | Group Analysis North

IGA Qualifying Course In Group Analysis (Manchester)

Greater Manchester, Manchester
Category:Course
Clinical Area:Adults
The Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) offers a professional training in group analytic psychotherapy, leading to full IGA membership and UKCP registration. This block-based course in Greater Manchester spans three to four years, making it s...
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4 September 2026 | Group Analysis North

Work Reflection Group (In-Person)

Bolton, Bolton
Category:Supervision
Clinical Area:Adults
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 ...
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2 October 2026 | Group Analysis North

Work Reflection Group (Online)

Online, Online
Category:Supervision
Clinical Area:Adults
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 ...
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10 October 2026 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

English Speaking Weekend Conference: Listening to Antigone (Hybrid)

Category:Conference
Clinical Area:Adults
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10 October 2026 | The Institute of Psychoanalysis

English Speaking Weekend Conference: Listening to Antigone (Hybrid)

Hybrid, Hybrid
Category:Conference
Clinical Area:Adults
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12 November 2026 | Group Analysis North

IGA Qualifying Course Open Session

Manchester, Manchester
Category:Introductory Event
Clinical Area:Adults
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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