Events

MI Event

This talk explores how genuine understanding is displaced by its “pretenders” - dogma, ritual, moralism, and rigid ideology. Drawing on psychoanalysis, Bell examines how cultures explain themselves while concealing deeper truths, and how market ideology has come to appear as unquestioned “normality.”

30 June 2026

MI Event

The Introductory Lectures offer a clear and accessible way to learn about key psychoanalytic concepts, whether you’re a beginner or looking to deepen your understanding.

22 April 2026 - 01 July 2026

MI Event

Whether you are completely new to psychoanalysis, or you wish to deepen the knowledge you already have, the Introductory Lectures will help you discover key psychoanalytic concepts and how they apply in the consulting room and beyond.

07 January 2026 - 01 July 2026

MI Event

This course introduces key Jungian and Post–Jungian concepts in analytical psychology through a series of seminars presented by members of the SAP and by selected guest speakers.

01 September 2025 - 01 July 2026

MI Event

This session will explore the ways in which the hierarchies in our profession are often reflecting and even reinforcing inequalities and injustices in the wider world.

02 July 2026

MI Event

The latest in the series of seminars on Decolonising Psychoanalysis, organised by the Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists. The series is intended to open up conversations about psychoanalysis by initiating dialogues between academics and psychotherapists, bringing clinical responses to the academic decolonial work. In this seminar, Ivan Ward analyses the psycho-political effects of racist assumptions that are a continuing, and often hidden, legacy of colonialism.

04 July 2026

MI Event

Self and other in mind and brain: some implications of an empirical study for analytic practice The event will be held in a hybrid format – both in person at the SAP library and online. As space in the library is limited, we encourage early booking once registration opens in the coming days. In previous papers I described the analytically informed approach based on Ron Britton’s thinking which I developed for patients with severe narcissistic disorders attending NHS services. Later in my paper self and alien self in psyche and soma I described my ideas about how the experience of self and other are represented in the mind and brain and how both are adjusted in narcissistic defences. The results of my recent PhD study have led me to update my ideas and clinical analytic practice. In this lecture I will talk about those findings and the new understanding I have arrived at of somatic symptoms in patients who rely on projective identification to manage their unconscious anxieties. I will illustrate the implications for analytic practice with extracts for the analysis of a patient

04 July 2026 - 04 April 2026

MI Event

In this 10-week online seminar series, participants will explore what it is like to work with couples in therapy. This comprehensive series offers both the opportunity to read theory by key figures in the field and to think, through group discussion, about its application in the work with couples. Film clips and relevant case material are also used to help you gain deeper insight and understanding into this fascinating and burgeoning area in the field of psychotherapy.

20 April 2026 - 06 July 2026

Non BPC Event

This is a major international conference on the psychotherapies of psychosis. It is multimodality and contains many psychoanalytically orientated presentations and workshops.

06 July 2026 - 08 July 2026

MI Event

This talk explores the growing breakdown of the rules-based international order and the increasing risks of war, authoritarianism, nuclear catastrophe, and environmental collapse. Drawing on themes from a new multi-author volume on ending wars, Alderdice examines why conflict arises, how violence escalates, and why today may be one of the most dangerous periods in human history.

07 July 2026

MI Event

The Tavistock Consulting Leadership and Management Workshops are a series of one day workshops that help leaders, managers and consultants think more deeply about the human side of organisational life.

12 February 2026 - 09 July 2026

MI Event

Join us for a one-day conference exploring the latest clinical work of the Tavistock Trauma Service, a non-diagnostic, multi-modal complex trauma service held in a psychoanalytic frame. Through a series of engaging presentations and break-out discussions, we will develop your understanding of complex trauma and consider how our distinctive model of care may be applied in your own setting.

10 July 2026

PPNow

Knowledge and It’s Pretenders

Introductory Lectures Summer 2026

Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis 2026

Foundations of Analytical Psychology

Inclusive Analysis: Hierarchies & Fragmentations

Everyday Racism and the Legacy of Colonialism

SAP Annual Lecture

An Introduction to Therapy with Couples

Psychosis, International Conference of the ISPS

Ending Wars

Tavistock Consulting Leadership Workshops

Attachment and Relational Complex Trauma

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