Events | British Psychoanalytical Society

Upcoming events

Featured event | The 13th European Psychoanalytic Film Festival

Bringing together contemporary European filmmakers exploring passion in its myriad forms: in the passionate suffering of mourning, in the passion for truth or in impossible love. It is the intensity and urgency of feeling that unites them all.

Friday 13th to Sunday 15th November

In person at the Royal Society of Medicine

Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Writing and the Unconscious

Monday 1st June 2026, 7:30pm to Monday 20th July 2026, 9:00pm

Please join us for this eight part series.

Psychoanalytic Perspective on Eating Disorders

Thursday 11th June 2026, 7:30pm to Thursday 25th June 2026, 9:00pm

A psychoanalytic exploration of eating disorders, their meaning, development, and clinical implications.

Edinburgh Conference 2026: Turning a Deaf Ear

Saturday 13th June 2026, 9:15am

Please join us in Edinburgh for this one day, in person conference, with speakers Vic Sedlak, Christine English, Avi Shmueli and Elizabeth Coates Thummel (Chair), on the theme of Turning a Deaf Ear: Impediments to Listening on the Clinical Situation.

Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Writing Inner Space

Monday 15th June 2026, 7:30pm

Please join us for the third seminar in this eight part series with Dr Adrian Chapman and Amy Lineham

Political Mind | Culture of the Cruel

Tuesday 16th June 2026, 8:15pm

Join us in person or online via Zoom for this Political Mind seminar with a panel of speakers: Mark Goldblatt, Dr Anna Harvey, Prof. Mark Freestone and Prof. Fanny Guglielmucchi. Chaired by Tomaz Fortuna.

Child and Adolescent Analysis | Adventure in Child Analysis | 19th June

Friday 19th June 2026, 4:00pm

Please join us for this Maudsley, Child and Adolescent Seminar with Dr Karl Huntbach.

From Harm to Healing: Current Perspectives on Abuse

Saturday 20th June 2026, 10:00am

This conference brings together leading psychoanalytic thinkers to explore abuse, accountability, and the journey from harm to healing.

Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | Dominique by Françoise Dolto: A Discussion

Monday 22nd June 2026, 7:30pm

Please join us for the fourth seminar in this eight part series with Eleanor Ivory Weber, Perwana Nazif and Lionel Bailly.

Political Mind | No-Go Areas in Psychoanalysis with David Morgan

Tuesday 23rd June 2026, 8:15pm

Join us online via Zoom for this Political Mind seminar with David Morgan, chaired by Jeremy Clarke.

Open Evening London 2026

Friday 26th June 2026, 6:45pm

If you're interested in pschoanalytic training, please join us in person for this free event based in London.