Psychoanalysis Unit
Welcome to the UCL Psychoanalysis Unit, part of the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology

We are excited to announce the launch of Lionel Bailly's new book The Lacan Tradition (Lines of the Symbolic), a showcase of developments in Lacanian thinking.

Upcoming conference The Repression and Abandonment of Oedipus: The role of the Oedipal situation in mental distress and disorder. Friday 30th Nov - Sunday 2nd Dec 2018.
Registration opens in June 2018, read more here

‘The Reflective Functioning Questionnaire’, a brief screening measure of mentalization, is now available to download

The Collected Works of D.W. Winnicott edited by Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson has been selected as the winner of the 2017 American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis annual book prize, in the Historical category. Find out more

David Tuckett focuses on using psychoanalysis to understand behaviour in financial markets and the economy. 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