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SUMMARY:BPA Scientific Event - Learning from the Experience of Reading Bion’s Autobiographies
DESCRIPTION:Online via Zoom & In-Person \nThe Debbie Bellman Memorial Lecture\nLearning from the Experience of Reading Bion’s Autobiographies \nFriday 5th June 8-10pm\nSaturday 6th June 2026 12 – 4pm (BST) \n\nFRIDAY 8-10 PM (ONLINE ONLY) \nMeg Harris Williams | Introduction\nFilm showing The Becoming Room \nSATURDAY 12 – 4PM (Hybrid) \n12 – 1.30pm Meg Harris Williams: \nLearning from the Experience of Reading Bion’s Autobiographies\nIn her talk Meg will describe some key elements that emerge from Bion’s presentation of his ‘self’ in his autobiographical works\, and how\, as with creative fiction\, identification with these becomes a passionate learning experience for the reader\, by encouraging or even demanding that further symbolic transformations are made. \n1.30 – 2.15pm Break. Light lunch provided\, followed by a film by Mércia Fagundes and Thais and Miguel Marques and the song ‘Chega de saudade’ (‘No more longing’) by João Gilberto \n2.15 – 4 pm Panel Discussion: Vera Montagna\, Vivienne Pasieka\, Annelise Scappaticci\, Alison Vaspe \nThe Work Group: Bion’s autobiographies as inspiration for introspective associations in clinical work.\nThe panel will explore individual experiences in the light of Bion’s autobiographical thinking. \nTickets:\nLecture\, film & panel discussion – £45\nOnline only – £40\nCandidate/student ticket – £35\n(contact lukeperry@psychoanalysis-bpa.org)\n*A recording will be made available for 30 days after the event* \nBook your ticket nowMeg Harris Williams offers a particular perspective not only on the genesis of Bion’s ideas as reflected in his autobiographical writings\, but on the way in which we may read and identify with them to enrich our own personal experience. Proof of the life of an idea is that it can enter into other people and their ‘becoming’. The theme of this lecture and conference is to illustrate how ‘meeting oneself’ can be\, as Bion says\, a passionate learning experience. \nA film based on Bion’s autobiographies\, The Becoming Room\, written and directed by Meg Harris Williams\, will be shown online on Friday evening. This will form the starting point for her lecture on Saturday\, followed by a panel discussion with Vera Regina Fonseca Montagna\, Vivienne Pasieka\, Anne Lise Scappaticci and Alison Vaspe\, who will each present their own review of specific clinical situations as filtered through both the film and Bion’s ideas\, in a way which clarifies their autobiographical significance. A book is forthcoming using these ideas and experiences\, entitled Our Eternal Home: Bion’s Idea of the Self\, published by Routledge. \nBiographies: \nMeg Harris Williams is a writer on literature and psychoanalysis and a visual artist. Her books include The Aesthetic Development: The Poetic Spirit of Psychoanalysis\, Bion’s Dream: A Reading of the Autobiographies\, and The Becoming Room: Filming Bion’s Memoir of the Future. \nVera Regina Fonseca Montagna is a Clinical Psychologist with pre-clinical training at the Tavistock Clinic (1975-1976) and experience as a Child Psychotherapist at the Epson Child Guidance Clinic\, Surrey. A Full Member of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo (IPA)\, she teaches at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and maintains a private practice. Additionally\, she is a visual artist and has published essays on psychoanalysis\, aesthetic experience\, and creativity. \nVivienne Pasieka is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in private child and adult practice. Trained in Ireland and Canada\, she is a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (IPA)\, faculty member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and Chair of Between Hours: Inter-disciplinary Dialogues\, Toronto Psychoanalytic Society\, and Freud Café Canada. \nAnne Lise Scappaticci is a clinical psychologist trained at La Sapienza University of Rome\, a Full Member and Training Analyst of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society (IPA)\, and former Editor of IDE (2021–2024). She holds a PhD in Mental Health from EPM-Unifesp and completed postdoctoral studies in Clinical Psychology at IP-USP. Her publications include Bion and Child Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis: An Emotional Experience (Blucher\, Brazil; Alpes\, Italy). \nAlison Vaspe is a fellow of the BPA and chair of its Scientific Meetings Committee. She is a psychoanalyst in private practice\, contributing editor of Psychoanalysis\, the NHS and Mental Health Work Today (2018) and author of a children’s book\, Edie-Puss and Me (2026). \nThe opinions and views expressed are entirely those of the speaker in a personal capacity and do not necessarily reflect the policies or opinions of the BPA.
URL:https://www.psychoanalysis-bpa.org/events/bpa-scientific-event-learning-from-the-experience-of-reading-bions-autobiographies/
LOCATION:Prince of Wales Road\, 89 Prince of Wales Road\, London\, UK\, NW5 3NT
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Public Memorial Lecture
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SUMMARY:Winnicott’s Relationship to the Work of Melanie Klein | Dr Joseph Aguayo – 12th July\,  11am to 3pm | The Debbie Bellman Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Winnicott’s Relationship to the Work of Melanie Klein | The Debbie Bellman Memorial Lecture \nDr Joseph Aguayo\, Psychoanalytic Center of California | Discussant Lesley Caldwell\nSaturday 12th July\, 11am – 3pm | lunch included \nHybrid meeting: \n89 Prince of Wales Road\nLondon NW5 3NT \n& Online via Zoom \n\nPlease come and join us at 89 Prince of Wales Road for the lecture\, a response from Dr Lesley Caldwell\, a light lunch and a clinical discussion  from 11 am till 3 pm. \nPlease do share the attached flyer with your colleagues. \nWinnicott’s relationship to the work of Melanie Klein 2025 \n\nThe secondary literature on Winnicott’s Kleinist contributions has been somewhat wanting: the Kleinian literature hardly exists\, while the Winnicottian literature on his connection to Klein is wanting in a different way. Many Winnicottian contributors no sooner admit that Klein had a significant impact on Winnicott’s evolution as a psychoanalyst before whisking him away under the cover of his originality as a psychoanalytic pioneer. My paper accentuates what Winnicott specifically derived from his long-term collaboration with Klein by contextualizing their relationship—the emphasis here is on context\, chronology and the evolution of clinical theory. \n\nClick here to book your place \nLecture & clinical discussion – £35 \nCandidate/student ticket – £25\n(contact lukeperry@psychoanalysis-bpa.org) \nRecording available to ticket holders \n\nBiographies: \nJoseph Aguayo\, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California and a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He holds PhDs in both Clinical Psychology and European History from UCLA. \nDr. Aguayo has published four books on Bion’s work: W. R. Bion’s Clinical Seminars in Los Angeles (2013); Bion in Buenos Aires (2017); Introducing the Clinical Work of W.R. Bion (2023); and Bion in the Consulting Room: An Implicit Method Clinical Inquiry (with Hinshelwood\, Dermen and Abel-Hirsch). \nAguayo also founded and directs the Regional Bion Symposium\, a consortium of North American analysts\, who attend year-round online meetings on Bion\, Winnicott\, Klein and Post-Bionians. Aguayo was invited to give a keynote paper on the case of the ‘Imaginary Twin’ at the British Society’s installation of a bust of W.R. Bion in London and in July he will present his paper on Bion’s method of clinical inquiry in his South American Clinical Seminars at the IPA Lisbon Congress. \nLesley Caldwell is Honorary Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London\, a Member\, now retired\, of the British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA) and a Clinical Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS). She is a European representative on the IPA board (2021-5)\, and currently the European representative on the IPA’s Executive Committee (2023-5). With Helen Taylor Robinson\, she is joint general editor of The Complete Works of D.W. Winnicott (OUP 2016). She is a member of the editorial board of the IPA Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) book series and on the advisory board of the journal Rivista di psicoanalisi. Recent publications include papers on affect in the consulting room\, Winnicott and the unconscious\, transitional objects\, Marion Milner\, loneliness\, silence as analytic communication\, the dating of fear of breakdown\, various contributions on Winnicott and Bion\, and a book on the British Independents\, published in Chinese in Beijing. \nShe is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Italian Department at University College London\, and has published on the Italian family\, Italian cinema\, and the city of Rome. She is currently working on Ten Moments that Shaped Rome\, a book to be published by Cambridge University Press.
URL:https://www.psychoanalysis-bpa.org/events/winnicotts-relationship-to-the-work-of-melanie-klein-dr-joseph-aguayo-12th-july-11am-to-3pm-the-debbie-bellman-memorial-lecture/
LOCATION:Hybrid (BPA)\, 89 Prince of Wales Road\, London\, NW5 3NT\, United Kingdom
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