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23/04/2026

Please join us for this annual, free online event, which precedes the Therapeutic Relationships in Forensic and Adult Mental Health Settings Series beginning in October.

Marcus Evans will be in conversation with Jo Osimuwa and Rachel Gibbons, exploring how healthcare services can respond to complaints in ways that support learning without creating a culture of blame.

The discussion will look at the tensions within complaints processes—ensuring patients and families feel heard, while avoiding prolonged and harmful scrutiny of staff. It will also consider how distress, grief, and uncertainty shape complaints, and the importance of responses that are thoughtful, proportionate, and grounded in sound judgment.

Focusing on fairness, reflection, and accountability, the event highlights how services can support both patients and professionals while maintaining trust and effectiveness.

Find out more and book your place: https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-event/1982

22/04/2026

📖Book of the Month:
Developmental Ruptures: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown and Defensive Solutions
By Anna Maria Nicolò

“In my practice as adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, I have encountered patients who at various times, from puberty to young adulthood, displayed severe symptoms that could point to psychotic functioning. A number of them, after careful intervention, both individual and environmental, resumed life and development. However, others worsened, as their disorder grew permanently chronic....

The assessment of these situations is highly complex, also considering that in adolescence, due to the typical features of this age, certain signs may mimic psychotic symptomatology. The preconscious is not yet fully organised, impulsivity and acting are inherently present, thereby clouding processing and thinking abilities, as I discuss in the chapter on assessment, and as we are also told by numerous neuroscientists who study the peculiarities of the adolescent brain...

Moreover, in adolescence, the true challenge is the re-founding of identity, using and transforming the past we all carry with us."

To learn more or purchase the book, click here:
https://www.routledge.com/Developmental-Ruptures-The-psychoanalysis-of-breakdown-and-defensive-solutions/Nicolo/p/book/9781032663340

21/04/2026

Join us for the next instalment of our Political Mind Summer Series, featuring a dialogue between Giuseppe Caruso and Professor Bob Hinshelwood.

This session explores how we understand human experience from two different but equally important perspectives: the social world and the individual inner world. Social science often focuses on external structures and behaviour, while psychoanalysis brings attention to unconscious processes that shape how we think, feel, and act.

Rather than seeing these approaches as separate, Hinshelwood brings them together through a psychosocial model that links inner experience with wider social and political forces.

At a time of global uncertainty, the discussion also reflects on issues such as dehumanisation, alienation, and the growing tendency to equate human value with economic value. Together, these ideas offer a way of thinking more deeply about the relationship between individuals and society - and the challenges we face today.

17/04/2026

Join us for the first seminar of the Writing and The Unconscious Series: “What Happened To You? Further Adventures in Poetry and Psychology” with speaker Glyn Maxwell.

Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have increasingly shifted from asking “What is wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”, a formulation associated with the Power Threat Meaning Framework.

In this lecture, Glyn Maxwell explores what poetry and the arts might learn from this shift, and considers where truth and beauty might reside if fixed ideas of aesthetic value are reconsidered.

He proposes an alternative perspective in which meaning may be found in the image of a “creature on a landscape, seeking to survive,” linking questions of survival, creativity, and interpretation across clinical and artistic fields.

Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, neuroscience, and ecology, the lecture engages thinkers including Winnicott and McGilchrist, and reflects on meaning-making in the context of the Anthropocene.

Glyn Maxwell is a poet, playwright, and librettist with extensive teaching experience across leading universities and arts institutions.

Find out more and book your place: https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-event/1940

15/04/2026

📖Book of the Month: Developmental Ruptures: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown and Defensive Solutions
by Anna Maria Nicolò

Is it time to rethink how we understand and diagnose adolescence?

Taking a developmental perspective, this thought-provoking book offers an alternative approach to assessment, focusing on prognostic and risk indicators rather than relying solely on adult diagnostic frameworks.

Anna Maria Nicolò presents a nuanced, multidimensional view of the adolescent mind, explored through both clinical insight and theoretical reflection. Crises in adolescence may mark the beginning of severe psychopathology, but they can also open the possibility for meaningful psychological reorganisation. In this way, developmental ruptures may reveal earlier vulnerabilities while also creating space for new integration and growth.

Emphasising the importance of careful diagnosis and timely intervention, the book highlights how both the young person and their family can be supported through these critical periods. Rich in clinical material, it offers valuable tools for those working with adolescent breakdown and transformation.

This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, developmental psychologists, and all professionals working with adolescent mental health.

Find out more or purchase here:
https://www.routledge.com/Developmental-Ruptures-The-psychoanalysis-of-breakdown-and-defensive-solutions/Nicolo/p/book/9781032663340

15/04/2026

We invite you to join us for the first event in the Child and Adolescent Analysis Series:
Learning to Live and to Die: Doubt and Certainty in Working with a Terminally Ill Young Adolescent Patient

In this reflective paper, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst Gillian Ingall revisits her early clinical experience of working with a terminally ill young adolescent more than two decades ago.

The paper explores how doubt and certainty emerged within the therapeutic process - for both patient and therapist - and considers how these experiences continue to inform clinical work with children and adolescents facing profound loss.

Further information and booking:
https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-event/1951

09/04/2026

Join us in Edinburgh for our 2026 conference, Turning a Deaf Ear: Impediments to Listening in the Clinical Situation.

A day of talks exploring the challenges of listening in psychoanalytic work, and how unconscious processes can shape what we hear in the clinical setting.

Speakers include Vic Sedlak, Christine English and Avi Shmueli, with responses from Anuradha Menon, Hannah Solemani and Brian O’Neill.

Find out more: https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-event/1865

30/03/2026

Join us for Therapeutic Relationships in Forensic and Adult Mental Health Settings, an eight-part series exploring relationships through a psychoanalytic perspective.

This hybrid series will look at how human connection shapes therapeutic work and experience.

Find out more: https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-event/1960

26/03/2026

Join us for our Annual Research Lecture 2026 with Prof. Dr. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber.

Chronic Depression and Early Trauma: The Contribution of Psychoanalytic Outcome Research

This lecture explores chronic depression, early trauma and developments in psychoanalytic research.

Find out more and book your place: https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-event/1955

25/03/2026

New from The New Library of Psychoanalysis!

📖Time and the Experience of Time
Psychoanalysis in Dialogue with History and Science
Edited by Heribert Blass, Leopoldo Bleger and Joëlle Picard

Papers and discussions from the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF) symposium on time
** In memory of Jorge Canestri (1942-2021), EPF President 2016-2020 **

Purchase the book:
🔗https://ow.ly/nU1G50Ym2RZ

"An extraordinary collection that bridges psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and other sciences, like physics and history, to illuminate the multiple experiences of time. Profoundly relevant for understanding temporality in clinical practice and theory. A major contribution to contemporary psychoanalytic thought."

- Dr. Jorge Eduardo Catelli, Psy.D., Full Member and Training Analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, Argentina

24/03/2026

Join us for the 10 Windsor Walk International Therapeutic Playgroup Conference.

A day of talks exploring therapeutic playgroups for babies, toddlers and their parents, plus a drinks reception the evening before.

Find out more: https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-event/1928

18/03/2026

New from The New Library of Psychoanalysis!

📖Time and the Experience of Time
Psychoanalysis in Dialogue with History and Science
Edited by Heribert Blass, Leopoldo Bleger and Joëlle Picard

Papers and discussions from the European Psychoanalytic Federation (EPF) symposium on time.
** In memory of Jorge Canestri (1942-2021), EPF President 2016-2020 **

Purchase the book:
🔗https://ow.ly/fF4n50Ym2yy

"This volume is a fine literary achievement expressing the EPF spirit of dialogic exchange which arose in the Symposium on Time (2022). The chapters illustrate a creative crosspollination of inter-disciplinary thinking that evolved. The arguments are lively, compelling and generative. This book is sure to endure the test of time and become one of the classic EPF books."

- Jan Abram, EPF President (2024 – 2028) and author of 'The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object (2022)'

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