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Dear Scholars,

We hope you're able to begin winding down your work ahead of the winter break and we hope you have a resful and restorative time over the festive season. Keep reading for the final updates of 2025 from the BPC Scholars' Community. 

We do hope you continue to enjoy these updates from us. If there's anything you'd like to suggest or see in the Scholars' Study going forward, do get in touch.

My Psychoanalytic Story: with Christopher Clulow

Read our sixth installment, where we speak to Christopher Clulow who’s beginnings as a social worker and probation officer led him to couple and family work at Tavistock Relationships. Christopher also talks us through the ups and downs of managerial work at TR and his work in private practice since then.

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BPC Awards 2025

At this year’s AGM, we hosted a drinks reception for our Registrants and Member Institutions as an opportunity to gather colleagues and friends together and to celebrate this year’s BPC Awards.

Visit our website to learn more about the awardees and their achievements.

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Group Relations Conference 2026

University of Essex Colchester Campus

27 Feb - 1 March '26

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Thinking Under Fire: Bion for Today, Celebrating the Publication of the Complete Works on PEP

University College London (UCL)

27 - 28 June '26

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Disturbance and Creativity

University College London (UCL)

27 - 29 Nov '26

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Editor-in-Chief for the British Journal of Psychotherapy Vacancy

The bpf, in partnership with Wiley, is currently recruiting for the position of Editor-in-Chief for the British Journal of Psychotherapy (BJP). The BJP is an international journal for a wide range of psychoanalytic and Jungian-analytic thinkers, with a focus on both innovatory and everyday work on the unconscious in individual, group and institutional practice. 

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Edgy Ideas Podcast with Scholar Caro Bainbridge as guest

In this episode of the Edgy Ideas podcast, BPC Scholar Caro Bainbridge comes on as a guest to discuss place, identity and belonging alonside Daniel Frank and host Simon Western. 

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Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, creative practitioner, academic and lecturer.

Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska is a Lacanian scholar, creative practitioner and academic. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a PHD supervisor at the University of Staffordshire and Oxford Brookes University. She's also known for her work as a filmmaker, life coach, keynote speaker and writes regularly for Times Higher Education.

Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska explores how AI is reshaping the dynamics of intimacy and transference in her forthcoming book AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2026) and in an article for the most recent issue of New Associations.

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