Scholars' Study eNewsletter April 2024

Dear Scholars,

Hello Scholars, we hope you're keeping well and that 2024 has been treating you kindly so far. As we enter the milder months, here's an update from the BPC Scholars' community.

If there's anything you'd like to suggest or see in the Scholars Study going forward, do get in touch.

PPNow 2024: Date Announced

We are pleased to announce the date for the British Psychoanalytic Council’s flagship conference, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Now 2024. The event will run on Saturday 23 November only, and both online and in-person tickets will be available.

Further details about the theme, speakers and the programme will be released in due course and bookings will be opened in late Spring.

We hope you will save the date, and we look forward to welcoming you to this year’s PPNow!

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Queering Counselling through Vulnerability, Authenticity, Rupture and Repair

School of Health in Social Science, The University of Edinburgh (in-person or online)

2 May, 2024

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Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know

Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London (UCL)

14 - 15 June 2024

Book Tickets

Endings and Beginnings

Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London (UCL)

29 Nov – 1 Dec

Book Tickets

Published any research you'd like us to share? Contact us and let us know.

Exploring Cinema Memory, Annette Kuhn

Scholar Annette Kuhn wrote a chapter in the book 'Exploring Cinema Memory'. Her chapter 'The Bridge and the Passport' draws on her research on cinema memory to propose a psychosocial approach to understanding the cinematic experience and how it is remembered. Annette is happy to send a pdf of her essay to Scholars who would like to read it, contact her if you'd like a copy.

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The Soft Power of Culture: Art, Transitional Space, Death and Play

Scholar and BPC registrant, Dr Jonathan Sklar, has written a forthcoming book, release date March 2024. Using the prism of art, music, and storytelling, Jonathan Sklar takes psychoanalytic thought to a wide audience to enable a
greater understanding of humanity.

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PhD Members

Are you a Scholar currently working on a PhD or do you know of any PhD candidates working on psychoanalytic projects? We'd love to start including updates on the current research developments and papers of PhD candidates in the UK specialising in psychoanalysis as part of our newsletter. We'd love to hear what you're working on, to have this included in our next mail-out, contact us with the details.

Journal of Psychosocial Studies Special Issue: Who's borderline is it anyway?

Scholar David Jones edited and contributed to a special issue from the Journal of Psychosocial Studies last year that focused on the history and discussions around borderline personality disorder.

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The Writer's Dilemma with Susie Orbach

Scholar Susie Orbach launched a new podcast series in January as part of Murmurations on Spiracle Audiobooks. In each episode Susie meets guests who each come to discuss a current dilemma with her in her consulting room.

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APS/APCS Conference: Learning or not learning from experience

Founding Scholar Jacob Johanssen is co-organising a joint conference from the Association for Psychosocial Studies and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society taking place 17-18 June.

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Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis, Brett Kahr

Founding Scholar Brett Kahr has published his 18th book: Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis: From Freud’s Death Bed to Laing’s Missing Tooth, which draws upon his decades of archival and oral history research and his interviews during the 80s and 90s with key psychoanalytical and historical figures in the UK. To mark the event he will be discussing the book at the Freud Museum on 21 June.

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Dr Nini Kerr, Psychoanalytic Practitioner, researcher and Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh

In our new Scholars' Study, we want to spotlight the work of some of our valued Scholars. For our second spotlight, we're focussed on the work of Nini Kerr, a Psychoanalytic Practitioner, researcher and Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Nini is a BPC Scholar and has also spent some time on the editorial board of the BPC's magazine, New Associations.

As part of our spotlight, we've uploaded Nini's talk from a Scholars' webinar in 2021. Click the button below to learn more about Nini's work and to watch her talk on: ‘Identity and Belonging’.

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If you'd like to feature in our next Scholars' Spotlight? Feel free to contact us to let us know.

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