UCL Psychoanalysis Unit

Join us online for Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings: A Meltzerian Perspective on Frodo’s Journey 📅 Wednesday 13 May 2026 ⏰ 12:30–14:00 (UK) Book now at➡️ ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis…

The programme is now available for our upcoming conference Thinking Under Fire: Bion for Today, taking place 27–28 June ⬇️ ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis…

Interested in the history of psychoanalysis and how the field developed during the interwar period? Join us on 26 March for Gillian Wells' webinar on The Historical Importance of Applications of Psychoanalysis in the UK from WWI to WWII ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis…

📢Register now for the 100th Anniversary of the IOPA Clinic. We invite attendees to join a special centenary event that highlights the Clinic's past, present, and future. 📅 Friday 6th March, 6pm 🔗ow.ly/OH1P50Yj35k

📢New publication alert! Our paper reporting the experiences of those bereaved in homicide has now been published. It was pleasure working with our collaborators Ms Karen Green Stewart and our colleagues at @SaferLondon. Read the full article here tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Here's our second short video ahead of our June conference with @PEPWeb Thinking Under Fire: Bion for Today, featuring Bion's colleague Albert Mason

Ahead of this June’s conference in collaboration with @PEPWeb, we invite you to watch a short video in which a colleague of Bion, Irma Brenman Pick, discusses the enabling impact his work. Find out more at ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis…

Call for brief contributions for Thinking Under Fire: Bion for Today. We invite colleagues to submit proposals, please see webpage for details ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis…

Gillian Wells will discuss key figures (WHR Rivers, Charles Myers, and centrally John Rickman) who drew on their psychoanalytical understanding to attempt an understanding of war neuroses from WWI and influenced, indirectly, the building of psychoanalysis in Britain.

Book now: The historical Importance of Applications of Psychoanalysis in the UK from WWI to WWII, taking place online Thurs 26 March 2026, 12:30 – 13:30. Book your free place here: ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis…

Book your free place at our next research webinar: Measuring and Developing Reflective Functioning Using Artificial Intelligence 🗓️ Thursday 26 February 12:30–14:00, presented by @KYirmiya and @AlexTruscott5 ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis…

🎉Congratulations🎉 to Yagiz who passed his PhD Viva on 24th Nov. His title is 'A Multi-Method Investigation of Epistemic and Interpersonal Trust Disruptions in People with a Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder', and he was supervised by Peter Fonagy & Patrick Luyten.

Carolina's PhD was supervised by Katerina Fotopoulou, Elena Panagiotopoulou and Michal Tanzer.

🎉Congratulations🎉to Carolina Villegas Martinez who passed her PhD Viva on 5th November. Her PhD title is 'Parental interoception: uncovering parents’ capacity to read children’s bodily signals via subjective and psychophysiological methods'.

🔊Last remaining places available! Join us this weekend at our Memory and its Vicissitudes conference as our speakers explore the transformations of memory both throughout development and in the clinical situation 🔗ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis…

🔹Panel 2, chaired by Daniel Pick, brings together Josh Cohen and Fakhry Davids to explore on the impact of traumatic histories in the psychoanalytic encounter.

On Saturday, we host two rich panel discussions: 🔹Panel 1, chaired by Alejandra Perez, features Megan Virtue and Liz McMonagle, who will consider how memory develops within the child analytic process.

🔊 One week to go! 🔊 Join us from Saturday 29– Sunday 30 November as our speakers at the Memory and its Vicissitudes conference explore how memory shapes both the present and the hereafter 🔗ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis…