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Psychoanalysis Unit
‘The Reflective Functioning Questionnaire’, a brief screening measure of mentalization, is now available to download.
David Tuckett focuses on using psychoanalysis to understand behaviour in financial markets and the economy. He has developed new approaches to decision-making under deep uncertainty: conviction narrative theory (CNT), and directed algorithmic text analysis. This talk touches upon the remarkable feature of his findings: for the first time, there is statistical demonstration that emotional shifts in narratives indicate the growth of financial risk. Click here to watch
Identity, Mind and Body
This Conference provides an opportunity to reconsider the fundamentals of identity, by examining our current clinical experiences. The Conference will also consider the complex continuities and discontinuities found to exist between thought and action, the mental and the somatic, the individual and the group, and how these are best understood in today’s context, in which there are major cultural movements and highly relevant developments in other disciplines. Find out more
Some thoughts about the shape of of postwar British Psychoanalysis. In this paper Lesley Caldwell will discuss the personal and intellectual links between Winnicott and Klein, and their increasing divergence theoretically and clinically from the Controversial Discussions to Winnicott’s obituary of Klein in 1960. To listen to the podcast.
Joan Raphael-Leff is a Psychoanalyst & Transcultural psychologist. Drawing on multidisciplinary sources ─ of psychoanalysis, neonatal research, social psychology, feminist theory and cultural studies ─ we explore unconscious effects of inter-corporeality on all of us who are of woman born. Listen to the podcast.