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Psychoanalysis

Welcome to the UCL Psychoanalysis Unit, part of the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology. Our mission is to break the mould of traditional approaches to psychoanalysis, taking inspiration from the discipline's ideas to meet the challenges of the modern world. Our interdisciplinary research applies psychoanalysis to contemporary issues, including mental and physical health, financial instability, gender, technology and the arts.

The Sandlers: Some Internal Objects Revisited

Registration is now open for this one day conference taking place on 16 March 2019, in which current leaders of psychoanalysis will identify and explore ways in which the Sandlers have impacted on and advanced their clinical, conceptual or educational worlds

The Future of Neuroscience, Attachment and Mentalizing: from research to clinical practice

Registration is now open for this one day conference taking place on 19 May 2019, which will be one of the first events to explicitly focus on the application of neuroscience and neurobiology to clinical issues.

Insights in Psychoanalysis

This series of films has been produced by UCL’s Psychoanalysis Unit in association with Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing. In each film an eminent analyst discusses one of their most important and influential papers. View the series trailer here

The Lacan Tradition (Lines of the Symbolic)

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. 

David Tuckett at TEDx Warwick

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

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