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SUMMARY:BPA Professional Visitor
DESCRIPTION:The BPA invites qualified psychoanalytic or psychodynamic clinicians registered with either the BPC\, BACP\, UKCP or equivalent body to apply (other qualified professionals or those from other registering bodies can enquire). \nProfessional Visitors to the British Psychoanalytic Association pay £250 for one year\, which includes: \n\nAttending all open or public BPA scientific meetings (not including paid ticketed events)\nAttending 5 Introductory Lectures of your choice.\nAttending the Summer Study Day.\nA series of monthly online seminars over the academic year\n\nTo apply please complete the application form by clicking the register button below and send to Jan Harvie-Clark \, at jan.harvieclark@gmail.com \nThe fee is £250 per year and payable once accepted.  Please ignore the start and end dates\, they are place holders to allow this to appear in the calendar. \nRegister your interest here
URL:https://www.psychoanalysis-bpa.org/events/bpa-professional-visitor-programme/
LOCATION:Prince of Wales Road\, 89 Prince of Wales Road\, London\, UK\, NW5 3NT
CATEGORIES:Professional Visitor
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SUMMARY:BPA Poetic Mind - Poetry & AI
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and AI.\nAn exploration of how poetry can challenge and diffuse the dehumanising effects of Artificial Intelligence. \nMaurice Whelan Poet and Psychoanalyst \nChair Louise Hayman \nMonday 2nd November 2026\n8-9.30pm\nOnline only \nBook your ticket nowBiographies\n \nMaurice Whelan is an Irish-born poet\, psychoanalyst and writer based in Sydney\, Australia. He trained as a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society in London and later moved to Australia\, where he became a Training Analyst of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society and served two terms as Chair of the Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis.\nBefore training as an analyst\, Whelan studied philosophy\, theology\, sociology\, criminology and social policy\, and worked as a social worker and psychiatric social worker.\nHis writing relate to the themes of the Poetic Mind Seminars and brings psychoanalysis into conversation with poetry\, literature\, creativity and the freedom to think.\nHe has published numerous books of poetry and prose\, including The Lilac Bow\, A Season and a Time\, In the Company of William Hazlitt and Thought: The Invisible Essence. A recurring theme throughout his work is the relationship between imagination\, emotional experience and the development of an independent mind. \nLouise Hayman is a Psychoanalyst with the BPA and co-chair with David Morgan of Poetic Mind.
URL:https://www.psychoanalysis-bpa.org/events/bpa-poetic-minds-poetry-ai/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:BPA Open Day
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, 7th November 2026 10am-1pm \nIn person: 87-89 Prince of Wales Road\, London NW5 3NT \nOnline via Zoom \nTraining in Psychoanalysis \nCome and meet the BPA. Hear about our organisation\, our trainings\, our pre-training courses and our post-training opportunities. Join us in person or online via Zoom for an opportunity to ask questions and join small discussion groups to consider your particular circumstances. \nYou will learn about the application process and details of the training\, hear from a candidate about their experience of the training and from analysts about life working as a psychoanalyst. \nThe BPA provides training to become a Psychoanalyst. Successful completion of the training leads to membership of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA)\, the EPF (European Psychoanalytic Federation) and the British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA). Qualification also leads to registration with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). \nBook your ticket now\nProgramme \n9.30-10.00: Registration and Refreshments \n10.00-10.10: Welcome: Chair of Outreach: Sarah Miller \n10.10-10.25: About the BPA: Vice-President of the BPA: Alan Colam \n10.25-10.40: About the Training: Director of Training: Catherine McKisack \n10.40-10.55: An Analyst’s Path to Training: Lisa Vaughan \n10.55-11.10: A Candidate’s Experience: Emma Penketh \n11.10-11.30: Q&A \n11.30-12.00 Short Break \n12.00-12.30 Small Discussion Groups \n12.30-1pm: Plenary \n 
URL:https://www.psychoanalysis-bpa.org/events/bpa-open-day-2/
LOCATION:Prince of Wales Road\, 89 Prince of Wales Road\, London\, UK\, NW5 3NT
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:BPA Scientific Meeting - Starting out in Life….Again | Becky Hall
DESCRIPTION:BPA Scientific Meeting \nSaturday 14th November 2026\n11am – 1pm \nStarting out in Life….Again \nBecky Hall \nBook your ticket now\nThis paper draws on the contribution of psychoanalytic thinking about children to our understanding of the beginnings of psychological life\, work with parents\, carers\, adopters\, and the treatment of very deprived children. It describes work with an experienced foster carer\, undertaken in a specialist NHS LAC CAMHS which is co-located with Local Authority Children’s services. Ordinarily committed to short periods of emergency fostering\, this ‘baby-carer’ puts herself into the immediate vicinity of acute states of infantile pain and distress within a context and timeframe that function to protect her own mental state. Temporarily she enters the necessary state of mind of a primarily preoccupied mother\, supported in the knowledge that the situation is held by the third\, background presence of the Local Authority who will support her adult capacities and separate the dyad within the agreed period.  It makes use of a series of consultations in which the therapist must quickly feel her way into the state of mind of a deeply traumatised young child whose adoption has broken down. The efforts to work together with the child and her fostering ‘baby  carer’\, and the traumatised child revived in the foster carer by the therapeutic work\, result in new possibilities for both as they each start out in life\, again. \nThe paper hopes to be of interest to all who work with children\, adults and traumatised patients across the life cycle. \nBecky Hall qualified as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist from the Tavistock Clinic in 2009 and subsequently trained as a Psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA). She has worked extensively in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and has a particular interest in fostering\, adoption and parental mental health. Alongside her NHS work she has a private clinical practice\, supervises\, writes\, and teaches. She is an ACP registered Training Analyst and a Trustee of the Stuart Hall Foundation through which she co-ordinates support for disadvantaged students hoping to train as Child Psychotherapists at the Tavistock Clinic. \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-meeting-starting-out-in-life-again-becky-hall/
LOCATION:Prince of Wales Road\, 89 Prince of Wales Road\, London\, UK\, NW5 3NT
CATEGORIES:Open Scientific Meeting
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SUMMARY:BPA Film Screening - Sentimental Value
DESCRIPTION:The British Psychoanalytic Association (BPA) presents an exclusive screening and discussion of\nSentimental Value\n(First Norwegian film to win Best International Feature at the 2025 Oscars)\nN.B. This film is subtitled\n\nBook your ticket nowSunday 22nd November \n9.30am Refreshments | 10am Film start\nQ&A 12.15pm approx. | Event ends 1pm \nHAMPSTEAD EVERYMAN CINEMA \n5 Holly Bush Vale\, NW3 6TX\nTube: Hampstead station / Northern Line \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Catherine McKisack (psychoanalyst)\,\nDavid Morgan (psychoanalyst) & Rael Meyerowitz (psychoanalyst). \nChaired by Joan Thompson (psychoanalyst).
URL:https://www.psychoanalysis-bpa.org/events/bpa-film-screening-sentimental-value/
LOCATION:Everyman Hampstead\, 5 Holly Bush Vale\, London\, NW3 6TX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Film event
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SUMMARY:BPA Poetic Mind | AWAKE! Blake and the Power of the Imagination
DESCRIPTION:AWAKE! Blake and the Power of the Imagination. William Blake’s Call to Us Now \nDr Mark Vernon\nwriter\, broadcaster and psychotherapist and a former Anglican priest. \nMonday 7th December 2026\n8-9.30pm\nOnline only \nChair discussant David Howell Morgan \nBook your ticket nowThe year 2027 marks the bicentenary of the death of William Blake\, poet\, painter and prophet\, and it is worth asking what his work has to say to an unconscious that finds itself\, two centuries on\, no less in need of awakening. Blake sought to rouse his readers from a slumber they did not know they were in\, offering not instruction but a kind of psychic loosening\, an invitation to perceive eternity with the eyes of imagination rather than with the flattened\, reality-testing eye that mistakes the given world for the only possible one. In this his project runs close to that of psychoanalysis itself\, which likewise begins from the premise that what passes for perception is already shaped by defence\, and that a return to a more primary imaginative capacity is both a labour and a risk.\nHis visionary work suggests that the modern worldview\, with its allegiance to what he called single vision\, performs a kind of occlusion\, foreclosing certain forms of knowing much as a defence forecloses an unwelcome truth\, even as it simultaneously opens new possibilities that an earlier consciousness could not have held. \nMark Vernon is a London-based writer\, broadcaster and psychotherapist\, and a former Anglican priest. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Warwick University\, degrees in theology from Oxford and Durham\, and a physics degree from Durham. He works in private practice as a psychodynamic psychotherapist\, and has previously worked at the Maudsley Hospital in a personality disorder service. \nHis writing moves between ancient philosophy\, theology and depth psychology\, with recent books on William Blake\, Dante’s Divine Comedy\, spiritual intelligence and Owen Barfield. He is a regular contributor to Radio 4’s Thought for the Day\, and writes for the BBC\, Aeon\, Church Times\, The Tablet and The Idler\, where he has a column. He also hosts the podcast Inner Life and co-runs the improvisation duo Philosophy Slam!
URL:https://www.psychoanalysis-bpa.org/events/bpa-poetic-mind-awake-blake-and-the-power-of-the-imagination/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:BPA Introductory Lectures - Psychoanalysis: Key Concepts and a Contemporary Perspective
DESCRIPTION:This series of lectures introduces fundamental psychoanalytic ideas and explores a range of topics in greater depth. Delivered by BPA Psychoanalysts\, presentations are followed by a group discussion. \nThe series is organised so as to build up a systematic knowledge of the field over two academic terms or self contained lectures that can be attended individually. \nWhether you already have some understanding of psychoanalysis or are simply curious\, we hope that these lectures convey a sense of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking as well as what it is like to practice as an Analyst in 2027. \n\nClick here to register
URL:https://www.psychoanalysis-bpa.org/events/bpa-introductory-lectures-psychoanalysis-key-concepts-and-a-contemporary-perspective/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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