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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.

Contagion, Containment and Staying Connected

Join us on 27–29 November 2020 for our virtual conference on psychoanalysis and the pandemic. Find out more on the event page.

£3.8m funds international psychotherapy trial with new mothers

A team led by Peter Fonagy has been awarded £3.8 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to fund a new 4-year study in Lebanon and Kenya looking at the treatment of post-natal depression, child development, and the mother-child relationship. Click here for more

On learning from loss: Rereading ‘Mourning and Melancholia’

Like so many events, our art exhibition Melancholia has been postponed. Whilst we await its opening, Liz Allison takes a look back to the situation in which Freud wrote his original, groundbreaking essay on the subject.

Compassion and Mentalization

This conference has been rescheduled for Saturday 8 May 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. You can check out the programme and short film here.

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

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