Psychotherapy CPD Events
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Neurodiversity and Psychoanalysis With Darian Leader
This seminar will focus on the history and theory of psychoanalytic approaches to neurodiversity, with a special focus on autism. Freud worked with neurodiverse children for over a decade, and his publications on child neurology allude at times to some of the issues and questions that would become central to later debates. These focused first of all on the expression of emotion, and how atypical forms of expression could be misread by adults, creating cycles of misunderstanding and confusion. Although Freud did not devote later work to this question, clinicians would discuss autism from the 1930s onwards, and it became popularised as a diagnosis by Kanner in the early 1940s. Analysts were very active in formulating models of autism and suggestions for treatment, and their ideas are still topical today. They initially used Freudian ideas to think about work with autistic children, but would later follow different directions. The emphasis was less on interpreting than creating attunements, and a safe space where the child could follow and elaborate their interests, however idiosyncratic these might have seemed. How are the early theories and therapies for autism helpful today? As well as offering a revised roadmap of technique, they bring into focus some of the key issues in the life of autistic subjects: presence and absence, containment, registering difference, the creation of bodily and psychical boundaries, sensory processing, and the use of distance to feel safe. All of these features of autism are easy to misread, and what looks like withdrawal or pathology may be simply a strategy for relatedness. Well-intentioned efforts to offer help may be felt as intrusions which generate their own kind of defences, and differences in sensory processing are also crucial to acknowledge here. Engaging with these issues can foster more sensitive clinical approaches to autism. This seminar will include clinical examples and citations from the work of autistic individuals, as well as commentary on current debates about the apparent overdiagnosis of neurodiversity. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-10-03
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Bringing Together Mind and Body
Bringing Together Mind and Body: The Work of the 10 Windsor Walk Psychosomatics Workshop Mondays | 12 October – 7 December | 7.30–9.00pm Hybrid: Attend in person or online Explore the complex relationship between body and mind in this eight-part lecture series inspired by the work of the 10 Windsor Walk Psychosomatics Workshop. Since 2020, the Workshop has brought together psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychotherapists, doctors and other healthcare professionals to examine psychosomatic thinking across disciplines. Drawing on psychoanalytic perspectives - including ideas from the British Psychoanalytic Society and the Paris School of Psychosomatics - this series offers a unique opportunity to engage with contemporary approaches to the interaction between psyche and soma. Each session, chaired by Kate Pugh and Simon Harrison, features a lecture followed by discussion, inviting participants to reflect on the Workshop's clinical experience, insights and ongoing questions. Attend the full series or book individual lectures as standalone events.Date: 2026-10-12
Organiser: Institute of Psychoanalysis
Location: Online and 10 Windsor Walk SE5 8BB
Treating Narcissistic Pathology: Live with Dr Otto Kernberg offering case illustrations
With Dr Otto Kernberg, Dr Diana Diamond, Dr Frank Yeomans & Aner Govrin (Facilitator). Time: 2pm-6pm (UK). This special training brings together three of the field's most distinguished contributors: Otto Kernberg, Frank Yeomans, and Diana Diamond. The programme will open with a review of levels of narcissistic pathology and an understanding of that pathology based on contemporary object relations theory. The second part of the program will summarise transference focused psychotherapy, an evidence-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy for personality disorders, and illustrate how the technique is applied in the therapy of patients with narcissistic personality disorder. Diana Diamond will contribute her expertise on attachment, personality functioning, and the therapeutic process, while Frank Yeomans will then guide participants through the clinical tasks and technical considerations involved in establishing effective treatment with complex patients. In the third segment, Dr. Otto Kernberg will discuss a clinical case, offering participants a unique opportunity to observe the diagnostic and conceptual thinking that has shaped contemporary approaches to personality disorders and psychotherapy. Participants will examine contemporary approaches to understanding personality pathology and personality organisation, while gaining practical skills in conducting comprehensive evaluations, discussing diagnosis with patients, managing risk, and formulating treatment goals. Particular attention will be given to the relationship between assessment and intervention, and how early therapeutic exchanges can shape the trajectory of treatment. Through clinical illustrations, case material, and discussion, participants will explore how clinicians can establish a framework that supports reflection, emotional regulation, therapeutic engagement, and psychological growth. The programme will also consider the ways in which difficult dynamics emerge early in treatment and how these can be addressed productively to strengthen the therapeutic process. While relevant to clinicians from a range of therapeutic backgrounds, the training will focus on demonstrating how these principles are integrated and applied within Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), one of the leading evidence-based treatments for personality disorders. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com. This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-10-16
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Online Clinical Work Discussion Group with Stanley Ruszczynski - Suitable for Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists
Friday 23 October 2026 - Friday 19 March 2027. This six-month series offers monthly clinical discussion groups specifically designed to support Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists and will be run by Stanley Ruszczynski. Stanley is a psychoanalyst and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist he has held leadership roles at both the Portman Clinic and Tavistock Relationships. These clinical discussion groups serve as a vital complement to traditional supervision, offering therapists essential guidance, skill-building opportunities, and a reflective space to explore the complex emotional dynamics of their work. Facilitated by senior clinicians from Tavistock Relationships, each session supports therapists in examining the personal and professional impacts of their therapeutic practice. Each two-hour session provides a structured, collaborative setting where each participant will present clinical case material or specific themes from their work for focused group discussion. A core emphasis is placed on the role of countertransference, how therapists are emotionally impacted by clients' dynamics, and on developing ways to process and reflect on these reactions without slipping into collusion. This approach goes beyond conventional case management by encouraging therapists to explore their emotional responses and the influence these have on their practice, promoting both personal and professional growth. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-10-23
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
Online Clinical Work Discussion Group with Mary Morgan: Suitable for Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists
Friday 23 October 2026 - Friday 19 March 2027. With Mary Morgan. This six-month series offers monthly clinical discussion groups specifically designed to support Psychoanalytic Couple Psychotherapists and will be run by Mary Morgan. Mary is a Psychoanalyst, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, a Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Senior Fellow of Tavistock Relationships. These clinical discussion groups serve as a complement to traditional supervision, offering therapists essential guidance and a reflective space to explore the complex emotional dynamics of their work. Facilitated by senior clinicians from Tavistock Relationships, sessions supports therapists in examining the personal and professional impacts of their therapeutic practice. Each two-hour session provides a structured, collaborative setting where each participant will present clinical case material or specific themes from their work for focused group discussion. A core emphasis is placed on the role of countertransference, how therapists are emotionally impacted by clients' dynamics, and on developing ways to process and reflect on these reactions without slipping into collusion. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com. This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-10-23
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Forging inclusive cultures in training and supervision
This online half-day event will bring together trainers, supervisors, trainees and practitioners to explore how more inclusive, equitable and psychologically safe cultures can be fostered across psychotherapy training and supervision. The event aims to share emerging thinking, practical learning and lived experiences that can support meaningful change across organisations, training environments and supervisory relationships. The event will provide opportunities for learning, reflection and dialogue, equipping participants with practical insights and ideas to help create more inclusive training and supervision practices within their own settings.Date: 2026-10-23
Organiser: UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
Location: Online
The Contribution of Michael Eigen to Psychoanalysis: Psychic life as an ongoing struggle to survive fragmentation while remaining open to renewal, connection, creativity
With Dr Michael Eigen, Dr Loray Daws & Dr Aner Govrin (Chair). Time: 2pm-5:30pm (UK). This programme offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from Michael Eigen, who will open the event with a one-hour presentation. Now aged 90, Eigen remains one of psychoanalysis’s most original and influential contemporary thinkers, making this a particularly significant occasion for clinicians, psychotherapists, and psychoanalytic practitioners. Many attendees will be drawn by the unique chance to engage with his work firsthand. Should unforeseen circumstances prevent his participation, the programme will be thoughtfully reconfigured to ensure a rich and engaging exploration of his ideas. Michael Eigen’s psychoanalytic explorations of the inviolable or indestructible offer a distinctive pathway through the complexities of psychic becoming. Drawing on his work with severely detached, unwanted, and psychically endangered patients, as well as deeply entrenched states of mind, Eigen illuminates how the self emerges through repeated experiences of rupture and reunion across mind, body, and relationships. Central to his thinking is the dynamic interplay between tendencies toward separateness and connection. These forces may relate in antagonistic, symbiotic, parasitic, dissociative, nullifying, or nourishing ways, shaping both psychological suffering and growth. Eigen also highlights the importance of cultivating a dialectic between catastrophe and faith, grounded within a sustaining rhythm of experience. In this respect, he extends and develops ideas associated with Wilfred Bion, Donald Winnicott, and Henry Elkin. Loray Daws, the co-editor-in-chief of the Michael Eigen Series at Routledge, has contributed significantly to the exploration of Eigen’s work. Daw’s will offer two talks after Eigen which will be chaired by Aner Govrin. There will be time for discussion. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com. This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-11-06
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
The Thirteenth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival
The Thirteenth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival will bring together a compelling programme of contemporary European cinema exploring the theme of Passion, alongside screenings, psychoanalytic discussion and a special tribute to the festival’s founder, Andrea Sabbadini.Date: 2026-11-13
Organiser: Institute of Psychoanalysis
Location: Royal Society of Medicine, London, W1G 0AE
World Congress on Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Scheduled for November 19–20, 2026, in London, UK, the World Congress on Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2026 will bring together distinguished speakers, researchers, clinicians, therapists, academicians, and healthcare professionals from around the world. The conference will showcase recent developments, innovative research, and best practices aimed at enhancing the lives of individuals with autism and their families.Date: 2026-11-19
Organiser: Vartusgroup
Location: london,uk, 533402
Autism 2026
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how individuals communicate, interact socially, learn, and process information. It is characterized by differences in social communication, repetitive behaviors, restricted interests, and sensory sensitivities. Autism is a spectrum condition, meaning that it affects individuals in different ways and to varying degrees. Early identification, intervention, and supportive services can help individuals with autism develop skills, enhance independence, and improve quality of life. Ongoing research continues to advance understanding, acceptance, and inclusion of autistic individuals across education, healthcare, employment, and community settings.Date: 2026-11-19
Organiser: Vartusgroup
Location: london,uk, 533402
Mental Health 2026
The International Conference on Mental Health & Psychiatry 2026 aims to promote excellence in mental health research, education, and clinical care. Through keynote lectures, panel discussions, and scientific presentations, participants will gain insights into current challenges and future directions in psychiatry and mental health services.Date: 2026-11-19
Organiser: Vartus group
Location: london,uk, SW1A 1AA
Techno - Transference (Piotrowska 2026) | International Day Conference
Techno-Transference: AI, Metaphor, Seduction, and the Future of Psychoanalysis Saturday 21 November 2026 | 9.30am–5.00pm Hybrid: Attend in person or online Join leading psychoanalysts, filmmakers and cultural critics for a one-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on psychoanalytic practice, theory and contemporary culture. Through keynote talks and discussion, Techno-Transference examines how AI is reshaping listening, metaphor, creativity, illusion and human relationships, asking the timely question: What happens to the analytic encounter when technology mediates it? The conference features an outstanding panel of speakers, including Professor Alessandra Lemma, Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, Professor Michael Chanan, Dr Kurt Jacobsen, Dr Bob Hinshelwood, Giuseppe Caruso and David Morgan, bringing together expertise from psychoanalysis, film, philosophy and the social sciences. Ideal for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, clinicians, academics, students and anyone interested in the intersection of AI, technology and the human mind. The conference will be recorded and available to registered participants for one week after the event.Date: 2026-11-21
Organiser: Institute of Psychoanalysis
Location: Institute of Psychoanalysis W9 2BT
Endings: Partial, Abrupt and Avoided Endings - With Dr Joyce Slochower
Termination is one of the most consequential yet least straightforward phases of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. While classical psychoanalytic theory has traditionally given termination a clearly defined place within the treatment, clinical endings are often far more complex. Treatments may end abruptly, remain unfinished, continue indefinitely, or shift into new forms of relationship. For therapists, these moments bring questions about dependency, separation, loss, attachment, professional boundaries and the meaning of the therapeutic relationship into particularly sharp focus. In this workshop, Dr Joyce Slochower will explore the complexities of endings in contemporary psychoanalytic practice. Drawing on her relational and object relational perspectives and extensive clinical experience, she will consider what happens when therapist and patient are ready to end, and what happens when they are not. The workshop will examine the influence of earlier experiences of separation, the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship, and the impact of practical realities such as time limits, institutional settings om the termination experience. The programme will also explore partial endings, where contact continues beyond the formal therapeutic relationship. Partial endings raise important clinical and ethical questions about boundaries, dependency and whether a relationship can meaningfully change form without avoiding the work of separation. The final session will consider therapy interminable: the clinical dilemmas we face when treatments continue over many years, might there be potential value in a sustained therapeutic relationship? What about the risks of prolonged dependency? Throughout, participants will be invited to think critically about their own assumptions about endings and what makes a therapeutic ending psychologically meaningful. Dr Slochower is Professor Emerita of Psychology at CUNY and faculty at leading psychoanalytic institutes in the US. She is the author of Holding and Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Collisions and Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2026-12-04
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
Clinical Implications of Personality Organisation with Dr Nancy McWilliams: A four part series
Thursday 28 January 2027 - Thursday 29 April 2027. With Dr Nancy McWilliams. Nancy McWilliams has made a major and distinctive contribution to contemporary psychodynamic thinking by placing personality organisation at the centre of clinical understanding in a way that is unusually clear, clinically usable, and widely influential. In contrast to the primarily descriptive and symptom-focused nature of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, her work develops a structurally informed, inferential approach that resonates strongly with psychoanalytic traditions concerned with meaning, development, and the patient’s subjective world. Rather than treating diagnosis as categorisation, McWilliams foregrounds how personality develops relationally and is organised, how a person experiences self and other, manages affect, defends against anxiety, and maintains or loses reality testing. Her model of structural personality organisation, commonly articulated along neurotic, borderline, and psychotic levels, offers clinicians a way of thinking developmentally and dynamically about psychological functioning. It helps the therapist anticipate the likely transference–countertransference field and adjust technique accordingly, particularly in relation to stability of identity, defensive organisation, and capacity for symbolic reflection. Layered on this structural model, McWilliams’ elaboration of personality styles such as depressive, narcissistic, paranoid, schizoid, and others provides a clinically rich account of enduring patterns of affect regulation, relational expectation, and defensive adaptation. These are not treated as fixed “types,” but as meaningful configurations that reflect both early developmental necessity and ongoing psychic organisation. This series will have direct implications for psychotherapeutic technique. It will sharpen the clinician’s judgement about timing, interpretation, and support, particularly regarding when insight can be metabolised and when it may overwhelm or destabilise the patient. It also places significant emphasis on countertransference as a central instrument of understanding, aligning closely with contemporary relational and intersubjective developments in psychoanalysis. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com. This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2027-01-28
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online via Zoom, -
Clinical Discussion Group with Dr Nancy McWilliams: A four part discussion group with a maximum of 12 participants
Thursday 28 January 2027 - Thursday 29 April 2027 in four one-hour sessions. Alongside our four-part series, Clinical Implications of Personality Organisation, TR Together is offering a unique opportunity for practicing clinicians to join Dr Nancy McWilliams for a small online clinical supervision group following each lecture. Designed to bring Dr McWilliams’ thinking into direct conversation with clinical practice, these sessions will create a reflective space in which participants can explore the themes in the lectures through detailed case discussion. Across the lecture series, McWilliams will examine depressive and self-defeating personalities; hysterical, histrionic, posttraumatic and dissociative psychologies; schizoid and paranoid psychologies; and narcissistic and psychopathic psychologies. The supervision groups will offer an opportunity to think more deeply about how these different personality organisations and dynamics may present within the consulting room, and what they might mean for therapeutic technique. In the first session, Dr McWilliams will bring a clinical case for the group to consider together, offering participants an opportunity to observe how she approaches case formulation and thinks through the clinical material. For the following three sessions, participants will be invited to bring their own anonymised clinical cases for discussion with Dr McWilliams and discussion within the group. Cases may raise questions around personality organisation, therapeutic stance, transference and countertransference, defensive processes, treatment challenges, or other areas of clinical uncertainty. These sessions are intended to be participatory rather than lecture-based, creating a consistent and engaged group of clinicians who can think together about the realities and complexities of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic practice. Places will be limited and offered via application to ensure a clinically appropriate and committed supervision group. For full event, pricing and CPD credit details see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2027-01-28
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: Online, -
How to lift depression – the practical skills you need
Discover how key new insights into the causes and symptoms of depression, when combined with a range of powerful psychological techniques, can make treatment easier and more consistently effective … https://www.humangivens.com/college/lift-depression-workshop/ Accredited CPD: 6 hours Length: 1 day (9.30am - 4.00pm) Tutor: Jo Baker Price includes course notes, refreshments and lunch. Counts towards Part 1 of the Human Givens DiplomaDate: 2027-03-04
Organiser: Human Givens College
Location: Engineers' House in Bristol , BS8 3NB
2nd Annual Women's Mental Health Conference: The impact of physiology, hormones, cycles on mood and states of mind
The inaugural Women’s Mental Health Conference brought together clinicians and researchers from across the psychological and medical professions to explore the complex relationship between hormonal health, emotional life, and women’s mental wellbeing. Responding to a longstanding divide between mind and body approaches, the conference examined the menstrual cycle and menopause as biopsychosocial experiences requiring greater integration between psychotherapy, psychiatry, and medicine. Discussions highlighted how trauma, stress, hormonal change, and social factors such as stigma and misogyny can shape women’s psychological experiences across the lifespan. Speakers explored how menstrual and menopausal difficulties may be understood within broader psychodynamic and relational formulations, while also considering the importance of medical assessment and interdisciplinary collaboration in supporting women’s mental health. Following the success of the first conference, we are currently researching and developing the programme for our second Women’s Mental Health Conference, which will continue to expand these conversations through contemporary clinical, medical, and psychoanalytic perspectives. We are incorporating feedback from attendees into next year’s programme, with particular emphasis on deepening interdisciplinary dialogue, strengthening clinical applicability, and addressing emerging themes identified by participants. The forthcoming conference will continue to create a space for reflective and evidence-informed discussion around women’s mental health, bringing together professionals from psychotherapy, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, and related disciplines. Further details, speakers, and themes will be announced soon. Booking is available to secure your seat! Live attendance of this event may be booked online at https://trtogether.com/events/women-cyclical-states-inperson . Online attendance of this event may be booked online at https://trtogether.com/events/women-cyclical-states-online . For full event, pricing and CPD credit details and other events see https://trtogether.com . This event is offered by TR Together, Tavistock Relationships' learning and development community. For more information about Tavistock Relationships see tavistockrelationships.orgDate: 2027-04-24
Organiser: TR Together (Tavistock Relationships)
Location: TBC