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Breaking Barriers: How Diversity Can Enrich Psychodynamic Training - The British Psychotherapy Foundation As someone who is passionate about psychodynamic therapy and is also on the journey of training within this field, I’ve come to recognise a significant truth: the presence of diversity is not just an ...

A trainee writes - read the latest Insight column from our website.
#diversity #training #intersectionality #globalmajority #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #edi

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Boundary Issues — Parapraxis How boundaries became the rules for mental health—and explain everything Lily Scherlis

An interesting meditation on 'boundaries' by Lily Scherlis for Parapraxis Magazine:

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bou...

#boundaries #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #therapy

Boundary Issues — Parapraxis How boundaries became the rules for mental health—and explain everything Lily Scherlis

An interesting meditation on 'boundaries' by Lily Scherlis for Parapraxis Magazine:

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bou...

#boundaries #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #therapy

JUSTICE SIGNIFIED: NAMING INJUSTICE IN THE THERAPEUTIC SPACE In psychotherapeutic practice, trauma—and its resolution—frequently requires some recognition of the role played by injustice. How and to what extent societies and their legal systems choose to provi...

From our sister publication British Journal of Psychotherapy:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#psychotherapy #justice #injustice

🎂 Happy 107th Birthday to Hanna Segal, born on this day in 1918!

Hanna Segal (1918-2011) was a Polish-born British psychoanalyst and one of the most important figures in the development of Kleinian and post-Kleinian psychoanalysis.

An excerpt from the linked article, which reads, in part: "If the structure of the address that founds the social link constitutes the Other as the guardian of the limits of the receivable, then there is an important part of the subject’s experience that cannot pass through language and is not receivable in culture. The characterization of the psychotic’s delusion as 'insane,' and as a danger to the social bond that necessitates involuntary treatment or even arrest, would here be paradigmatic. But we can also think about the experience of the child, whose reality—peopled by imaginary friends and monsters under the bed—is much more capacious than that of the family or society in which he lives. When the child enters into the language of the social link, these experiences undergo censorship: the child literally stops seeing and hearing certain things. And when this censorship does not occur—as in the case of the psychotic—participation in social life can become difficult."

"The subject of the unconscious is a subject that is out of language, and this does not change after a psychoanalysis" — read Tracy McNulty's "Inviting Catastrophe: The Welcoming of the Act in Psychoanalysis" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Gay men’s experiences of holding hands in public: Psychosocial dilemmas and the discourse of homophobia - Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society For many members of the LGBTQ community, holding hands with their partners in public, and other public displays of affection (PDAs) is seldom a carefree and spontaneous act. Survey studies have previo...

Our paper has been published in the latest issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society - Gay men’s experiences of holding hands in public.
It is published open access, so free to read and download.
#psychoanalysis, #LGBTQ, #homophobia
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

'I felt numb' - how therapy helps in motherhood's darkest days Women who had their babies six months ago talk about the impact on their mental health.

This is a wonderful initiative for new mothers.
'therapy for motherhood's darkest days'
#motherhood #overwhelm #depression #postpartum #postbirth #counselling #therapy

www.bbc.com/news/article...

'I felt numb' - how therapy helps in motherhood's darkest days Women who had their babies six months ago talk about the impact on their mental health.

This is a wonderful initiative for new mothers.
'therapy for motherhood's darkest days'
#motherhood #overwhelm #depression #postpartum #postbirth #counselling #therapy

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Challenge Events - The British Psychotherapy Foundation Walk, run, trek or cycle to improve access to psychotherapy. By taking part, you will help us to make our psychotherapy training and low-fee clinical services both equitable and affordable, ensuring t...

We’re fundraising to keep #psychotherapy training affordable, improve diversity in our profession, and provide low‑fee therapy for those who need it most.

Support us by signing up for a 2026 Trek Challenge or big‑name races like the Brighton Marathon and London Landmarks Half: bit.ly/4ods3v3

How do people recover from persecutory delusions? An interpretative phenomenological analysis Patient perspectives on recovery from psychosis have been studied. However, there are few studies on recovery from particular psychotic experiences. Persecutory delusions are common, often distress...

To mark National Schizophrenia Awareness Day on July 25th, here is an article from Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches journal around working with delusions.
#recovery #severementalillness #psychosis #delusions

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Therapy isn’t about life hacks. The best solutions are simpler – and more complex What we want is quick, clever fixes. What we need is quite different: the ability to tolerate intolerable feelings, to sustainably change and grow

Shout out for our low cost therapy scheme from Moya Sarner:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds Guardian investigation reveals promotion of dubious advice, questionable supplements and quick-fix healing methods

Good piece on the TikTokisation of mental health - misinformation and more.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Mind's Eye - Spring 2025 - The British Psychotherapy Foundation Welcome to Mind’s Eye, the digest from the British Psychotherapy Foundation.  It contains a salad of useful and interesting links, articles, and pointers to conferences, webinars and trainings.   It c...

The Spring 2025 edition of Mind’s Eye is here! Curated by the bpf’s Library Manager, @pollymortimer.bsky.social , Mind’s Eye contains a salad of useful and interesting links, articles, and pointers to conferences, webinars and trainings. 📚🔗

#psychotherapy #counselling #mentalhealth #therapy

The Visible and the Invisible: Reflections on Secrecy, Dehiscence and the Gaze of the Other in the Therapeutic Encounter Psychotherapy is broadly concerned with secrets. Often our clients bring us things which they have never told anyone, subjects they have felt unable to broach. What happens in the relationship when a....

Psychotherapy is broadly concerned with secrets. What happens in the relationship when a secret is uncovered?

Read: 'The Visible and the Invisible: Reflections on Secrecy, Dehiscence and the Gaze of the Other in the Therapeutic Encounter' by Scarlett de Courcier.

Free to access.

#psychotherapy

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Sitting with invisible difference: Psychoanalytics and autism Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and autism have had a complicated relationship. Much of the complication has arisen from patients with autism being misunderstood by those who have used a psychoanalytic ...

"Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and autism have had a complicated relationship... key psychoanalytic concepts need to be reviewed when working with autistic patients."

Read this free article from our publication The British Journal of Psychotherapy:

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#NCW25 #neurodiversity

Mental health charities struggling to cope with GP-referral influx Exclusive: Under-qualified professionals being asked to treat patients in England as NHS leans on third sector

'Mental health charities in England are struggling to cope with the number of sick patients referred to them by GPs, with under-qualified professionals increasingly tasked with treating the seriously ill.'

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📢 Online Open Morning: Psychodynamic & Jungian Theory for Practitioners, April 12th 2025, 10:00am.

Join Dr. Wayne Full to explore our new online course for qualified counsellors, psychotherapists & psychologists looking to integrate psychodynamic thinking into their practice.

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Dr Lydia Tischler, Courageous Innovator | MINDinMIND Interview Lydia Tischler – one of the first child psychotherapists to train with Anna Freud. Her seventy career has been marked by courageous innovation.

bpf Member Lydia Tischler was one of the first child psychotherapists to train with Anna Freud. In this film, she shares how her traumatic childhood, partly spent in concentration camps, led her to begin training as a psychotherapist.

bit.ly/3WBnxum
Film by Mind in Mind.

#HolocaustMemorialDay

Join us on February 1st for a hybrid conference celebrating renowned Uruguayan psychologist and psychoanalyst Victor Guerra:

'Rhythm and the Intersubjective Development of the Psyche-soma: Celebrating the Work of Victor Guerra'.

Book tickets here: bit.ly/4hjq4kG

#psychoanalysis #psychotherapy

Queer Encounters with psychoanalytic history at the Freud Museum – the relationship between Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham (In-House Tour) - Freud Museum London In the 1970s and ‘80s, when the Freud Museum archive was being established, conservative social attitudes about lesbian relationships meant that Anna

Queer Encounters with psychoanalytic history at the Freud Museum - 31st Jan, 2025

‘Conservative social attitudes about lesbian relationships meant that Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham’s close relationship/cohabitation were topics that potentially threatened Freud’s legacy...’

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📣 We’re hiring a Training and Events Coordinator for our Newcastle site.

🕰️ 21 hours a week.
💻 Mostly home-working with some travel to sites in Newcastle.

Apply here: bit.ly/3UzLeT5

#newcastle #NewcastleUponTyne #job #northeast

Freudulence | Los Angeles Review of Books Jamieson Webster invokes Sigmund Freud and Ambassador William C. Bullitt in an attempt to psychoanalyze political leaders, in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”

‘It is not merely that we, the audience, may be hypnotized by what leaders say, but rather that they may well be under their own spell, weaving a delusion with their words to further insulate themselves from reality.'

Read Jamieson Webster's essay here: bit.ly/4ioe6Ye
LARB Quarterly

#freud

Key Considerations When Choosing a Psychotherapy Training Course - The British Psychotherapy Foundation During a psychotherapy training course, you’ll gain the foundational skills, theoretical knowledge, and practical experience necessary to become a qualified psychotherapist. There are myriad courses t...

With so many options available, choosing a psychotherapy or counselling course can be overwhelming.

We’ve created a guide to help ensure you invest your money, time, and energy into a training that aligns with your professional aspirations.

Read here: bit.ly/3Za3tj8

#psychotherapy #counselling

Many, many thanks to those who nominated me and for the BPC for agreeing it. Receiving this award is a real honour and I am very grateful.'

Besides a number of papers and presentations on the subject, my book ‘The Work of Whiteness, a psychoanalytic perspective’ was published by Routledge in 2021. I hope I have contributed to some change over the years…

I have been particularly occupied with how racism operates in our organisations, our theories and our interactions - racism that is cordial and polite but no less wearing and excluding for that…

- its behaviour, its unconscious dynamics and the consequences for those who are not privileged to be at its centre. My taking on roles at that centre has been, in part, an attempt to further such an examination…

I also argue we have a social responsibility to turn our attention, and the slow depths of psychoanalytic thinking to the wider social and political world in which we live and work.

I also believe there is an ethical imperative to engage in an ongoing examination of the profession itself…