🎨 Disturbance and Creativity Conference 🗓️ 28-29 Nov 2026 📍UCL and online. Join us in November to investigate the complex relationship of disturbance with creativity in the clinic, in the arts and in aspects of everyday life from fairy tales to football. ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/eve…
Presentations will bring different psychoanalytic traditions of thinking about creativity to bear on understanding the conditions that may enable clinical and aesthetic experiences involving disturbance to be transformative and the ways in which these can be blocked or stymied.
✨ Speakers include Sophie Boswell, Rose Dempsey, Francis Grier, Maia Kirchkheli, Susanne Lansman, David Morgan, Tom Shkolnik, Katherine Tallent, and Heather Wood, and Chairs include Liz Allison, David Bell, Alessandra Lemma, Anuradha Menon, and Avi Shmueli
Join us online this Thursday for our webinar "Sharing findings and lessons learned from the Speek Together CONNECT Study", an NIHR-funded feasibility study of a digital DBT-A informed intervention for young people who self-harm and their families ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/eve…
Join us online in October for the latest in our Research Webinar Series: Sharing findings and lessons learned from the Speek Together CONNECT Study
📅 Thursday 08 October 2026
⏰ 12:30–14:00
🔗ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/eve…
Adrian Smith’s bold reading of The Lord of the Rings in light of Donald Meltzer’s ideas will transform and deepen readers’ experience of this much-loved text in line with the psychoanalytic ethos of taking fantasy seriously routledge.com/Psychoanalysis…
Register now for our upcoming webinar on 8th October, presenting findings from the Speek Together CONNECT Study, a feasibility study a clinician-delivered, digital DBT-A–informed platform co-developed with over 400 families and clinicians ⬇️ ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/eve…
📣 Call for Short Papers | Disturbance and Creativity Conference 📣
🗓 Date: Saturday 28 – Sunday 29 November 2026
We warmly invite colleagues to submit proposals for short papers. For info on how to apply visit ⬇️ ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/eve…
Join our webinar: Sharing findings and lessons learned from the Speek Together CONNECT Study to learn about a new digital intervention for self-harm
📅 Thursday 08 October 2026
⏰ 12:30 – 14:00 (UK time)
Book your free place ⬇️ ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/eve…
🌟Last remaining places available!🌟
Thinking Under Fire: Bion for Today Conference
Celebrating the Publication of the Complete Works on @PEPWeb - sign up today! ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/eve…
🌟Join us this weekend! 🌟
Thinking Under Fire: Bion for Today Conference Celebrating the Publication of the Complete Works on @PEPWeb
🗓 Date: Saturday 27 – Sunday 28 June 2026
📍 Location: Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UCL, and Online
"The analytic experience, in spite of all the appearance of comfort […] is in fact a stormy, emotional experience for the two people." (Bion, New York, 1977). Image: ‘Sea near Swanage’ by W. R. Bion. Join us for our conference Bion for Today on 27-28 June ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/eve…
Join the conversation about Bion’s landmark contributions to psychoanalysis, now facilitated by @PEPWeb's publication of the Complete Works, at our conference in June 🔗ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/eve…
Note: Oil painting by W. R. Bion, ‘Cornfield from the Little Cottage.’ The broad skies of this painting evoke the widening of perspective so characteristic of Bion's work. The image forms the frontispiece of the first volume of A Memoir of the Future 🔗pep-web.org/browse/document/…
Congratulations to Marina Bobou who was awarded her PhD for her project ‘Perceptual and metacognitive interoceptive deficits in anorexia nervosa and their treatment: participatory and psychophysical evidence’. Her supervisors were Katerina Fotopoulou & Michal Tanzer @Katlab_UCL
Congratulations to Pavlos Zournatzidis who was recently awarded his PhD for his project ‘Longitudinal Perspectives on Attachment, Mentalizing, and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adoptees from Infancy to Adulthood’. He was supervised by Patrick Luyten and Peter Fonagy.
📢 Registration now open! 📢
✨ Disturbance and Creativity Conference ✨
🗓 Date: Saturday 28 – Sunday 29 November 2026
📍 Location: Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health - UCL, and Online via Zoom
🔗 ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/eve…
🎥 Rudi Vermote explains how Bion’s thinking reached a turning point with Attention and Interpretation ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/eve…