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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.

Insights in Psychoanalysis is a series of films 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

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. 

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

Registration is now open for this year's December 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. 

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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