Peter Fonagy

This might be of interest to Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy practitioners and trainers: I'm hosting an Anna Freud online Continuing Professional Development session on DIT, 30th April. More information available here:

www.annafreud.org/training/cou...

Book your place for our conference Memory and its Vicissitudes taking from 28-30 November, for more details please visit ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...

After Lacan: The Other French School Conference This UCL Psychoanalysis Unit online conference reintegrates the contributions of the Other French school into ‘classical’ psychoanalysis

Jacques Lacan: Oui ou non? Discover more about the speakers at our upcoming online conference and register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...

1001 Days | 1001 DAYS | 1001 Days

A former PhD student, Rose Palmer, has produced a wonderfully sensitive documentary, 1001 Days, about a team of home visitors supporting pregnant women, new mothers & their babies in a township in South Africa. You can now watch it online, tickets plus Q&A access can be bought here: bit.ly/42BPAvT

Join us this month to explore the barriers to epistemic trust, both within and beyond the therapeutic encounter, and develop transformative solutions at UCL’s "Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade" conference. Book here: www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...

The current crisis in child mental health is a worrying & urgent issue, and it's not going to go away. Meeting needs for relatedness, autonomy & competence seems to me the basic scaffolding for supporting mental health - read more in this blog for Health Foundation
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New therapy reduces reoffending in male offenders with antisocial personality disorder A new psychological therapy designed by a team of UCL-led researchers has been found to reduce rates of violence and aggression among male offenders with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD).

A new psychological therapy designed by researchers including Profs @pfonagy.bsky.social & Anthony Bateman & Dr Elizabeth Allison @uclpals.bsky.social has been found to reduce rates of violence and aggression among male offenders with antisocial personality disorder www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...

Know Ourselves – the importance of self-awareness, agency, and aspiration in early childhood  - CFEC

I was delighted to be asked by the Royal Foundation to contribute a guest essay for the Shaping Us Framework launch. Here is a link to it:
centreforearlychildhood.org/news-insight...

YouTube video by Beyond Borders Through The Ages: Tackling the UK’s Loneliness Crisis | Beyond Borders

It seems ironic to put this up on social media when I suspect the rise of the internet has had a fairly catastrophic impact on social interactions and may be linked to increases in loneliness – but the work of this group on combating loneliness is inspiring: www.youtube.com/watch?v=94i6...

We now have the complete programme for our forthcoming hybrid conference on Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy, 22nd-23rd March, run by the UCL Psychoanalysis Unit. Find out more and book here!

www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...)

Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade

What is epistemic trust and why does it matter? Here's a (thankfully) short attempt on my part to explain as a taster ahead of our conference on Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy, 22-23rd March
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Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade Join us to consider the role of epistemic trust in understanding the relationship between culture, communication and psychopathology at this hybrid event

Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy - join us at this conference as we look back on what we know so far and forward to new thinking on how the idea of epistemic trust can translate into psychotherapeutic practice. A hybrid event run by UCL Psychoanalysis Unit, 22-23 March:
www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...

Both mistrust and credulity linked to believing conspiracies People who are either too trusting or too mistrustful are more likely to believe conspiracy theories and ascribe to vaccine hesitancy, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

People who are either too trusting or too mistrustful are more likely to believe fake news and conspiracy theories - potentially leading to vaccine hesitancy - finds a new study by researchers @uclpals.bsky.social, including Professor Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de...

The role of epistemic trust and epistemic disruption in vaccine hesitancy, conspiracy thinking and the capacity to identify fake news Epistemic trust ‐ defined as readiness to regard knowledge, communicated by another agent, as significant, relevant to the self, and generalizable to other contexts–has recently been applied to the fi...

Hello Bluesky friends & colleagues. I don’t normally post about my papers but thought it fitting that my first message draws attention to why I am here and not on X. A study we’ve just published on conspiracy thinking, fake news & epistemic trust: journals.plos.org/globalpublic...