Psychoanalysis, Literature and Politics: Celebrating Hanna Segal's Contributions
17/05/2013 - 18/05/2013
Hanna Segal Memorial Conference, part of the Centenary of the British Psychoanalytic Society Celebration
Screening Conditions - Troubled Children series
17/03/2013
The Kid with a Bike film followed by discussion
Beckett and Bion: Evacuation, Containment, and Food for Thought
15/03/2013
A lecture and discussion exploring the work of Samuel Beckett from a psychoanalytic perspective
'Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: A comparative conceptual study of psychic pain'
02/03/2013
A one day workshop
Screening Conditions - Troubled Children series
24/02/2013
Mila from Mars film followed by discussion
Screening Conditions - Troubled Children series
20/01/2013
The Spirit of the Beehive film followed by discussion
Introductory Lectures
09/01/2013
A series of talks and group discussions covering the core concepts of psychoanalysis and their main applications
The Singing Detective - a rare screening of the full series and panel discussion
24/11/2012 - 25/11/2012
A chance to see all six episodes of Dennis Potter's acclaimed drama, plus a discussion with psychoanalysts David Bell and Donald Campbell, actor Patrick Malahide and series producer Kenith Trodd
4th James MacKeith Memorial Lecture - Shadow Lives: The Impact on Wives and Families of the War on Terror
23/11/2012
Presented by Victoria Brittain
Annual Research Lecture 2012 'Testing times: the demand for evidence and the future of child analytic work'
21/11/2012
Presented by Mary Target
Shock Head Soul
17/11/2012
Screening and discussion of Simon Pummell's 2011 film about the life of Daniel Paul Schreber
Reflections on Fascism and the History of Psychoanalysis
24/10/2012
A talk by Daniel Pick with discussant Edna O'Shaughnessy
Book Launch: Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
28/09/2012
Including a panel discussion and talks from some of the book's contributors
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism
21/09/2012 - 22/09/2012
Exploring the impact of the Second World War and totalitarianism on psychoanalysis, and of psychoanalysis on the understanding of the war and totalitarianism
Ernest Jones Lecture 2012: Culture, Identity and Liquid Modernity
19/09/2012
Presented by Professor Zygmunt Bauman
Winnicott Dialogues
15/09/2012
Round table discussions on the themes presented in Donald Winnicott Today, a new book edited by Jan Abram
Displacement, Identity and Cultural Heritage
08/07/2012
Screening and discussion of Wilaya, part of the East End Film Festival in partnership with Media and the Inner World
Screening Conditions: Let The Right One In
01/07/2012
Part of the series 'Horror: The Dark Side of the Unconscious'
Screening Conditions: Pan's Labyrinth
17/06/2012
Part of the series 'Horror: The Dark Side of the Unconscious'
Screening Conditions: Little Otik
20/05/2012
Part of the series 'Horror: The Dark Side of the Unconscious'
Oedipus Through the Life Cycle: Childhood
19/05/2012
Exploring this fundamental stage in the emotional development of children
Open Evening at the Institute of Psychoanalysis
09/05/2012
Have you ever thought about becoming a psychoanalyst?
Solitude and Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis
04/05/2012
What can psychoanalysis offer to those with a painful sense of isolation or loneliness?
Screening Conditions: Frankenstein
29/04/2012
Part of the series 'Horror: The Dark Side of the Unconscious'
Screening Conditions: Matador
25/03/2012
Part of the 'Eros and Thanatos' series, exploring cinematic portrayals of love and death
Screening Conditions: Le Boucher
18/03/2012
Part of the 'Eros and Thanatos' series, exploring cinematic portrayals of love and death
Temporality in the Unconscious - A Matter of Time: From Churches to Sculpture
09/03/2012
Exploring notions of time and space through contemporary sculpture
Screening Conditions: The Criminal Life of Archibald de la Cruz
26/02/2012
Part of the 'Eros and Thanatos' series, exploring cinematic portrayals of love and death
Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Obesity
25/02/2012
Examining the links, causes and consequences of these complex disorders
Screening Conditions: Ossessione
29/01/2012
Part of the 'Eros and Thanatos' series, exploring cinematic portrayals of love and death
Oedipus Through the Life Cycle: Infancy
21/01/2012
Exploring this fundamental stage in the emotional development of infants and very young children
Introductory Lectures: Spring Term
11/01/2012
A series of talks and group discussions covering the core concepts of psychoanalysis and their main applications
epff6: Sixth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival
03/11/2011 - 06/11/2011
Border-Crossing: Migration Across National and Mental States
About Memory, Interpretation and Object Relation in Today's Psychoanalysis
28/10/2011
An lecture exploring the limitations of the notions of memory and object relation
3rd James MacKeith Memorial Lecture: Lord David Ramsbotham - What Price Imprisonment?
27/10/2011
The former Chief inspector of Prisons addresses the reasons why the prison system fails to prevent re-offending
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Thinking About Projective Identification
24/09/2011
An exploration of issues around identity, boundaries and imagination
Comparing the Incomparable and Formalising the Unformulated: The Problem of Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis
21/09/2011
The Institute's Annual Research Lecture, presented by David Tuckett
Sport and Psychoanalysis
21/05/2011
Michael Brearley and Leon Kleimberg discuss team dynamics, leadership and motivation in sport
The 'We of Me': Versions (literary and clinical) of the primal scene
20/05/2011
“It is probable that if we were never bewildered there would never be a story to tell about us” (Henry James, The Art of the Novel)
Screening Conditions: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10/04/2011
Exploring film from a psychoanalytic perspective
Civilization and its Discontents
08/04/2011
Can humans master their drive to aggression and self-destruction?
Open Evening at the Institute of Psychoanalysis
05/04/2011
Interested in training as a psychoanalyst?
The Murder of Sanity and the Sanity of Murder: The Art and Science of Psychoanalysis
19/03/2011
How can psychoanalysis and the arts help us to understand violence, addiction and psychopathy?
Internal and External Migration in Marriage and Families
05/03/2011
How does migration affect individuals, couples and families?
Treating Perverse Patients: A discussion between Don Campbell and Sira Dermen
04/03/2011
An exploration of the dynamics of perversion as manifested in the consulting room.
The Child, the Family and the Outside World
26/02/2011
How can we make sense of the inner experience of babies and young children?
Humour in Psychoanalysis: Film Screening and Discussion of Inconscientes (Unconscious)
13/02/2011
A chance to see and discuss this delightful period comedy
Psychoanalysis, Reading And Writing
18/01/2011
Five seminars on the creative intercourse between psychoanalysis and the arts
The Experience of Psychoanalysis
19/11/2010
What is it like to sit in the analyst's chair, and to lie on the couch?
Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
16/10/2010 - 17/10/2010
How does it affect our sense of identity?
Between Brain and Mind?
15/10/2010
Can we link neuroscience's models of the brain with psychoanalytic models of the mind?
Transference and Countertransference with Somatic Patients
01/01/1970
A lecture given by Marilia Aisenstein