Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | "I must find new words": Dialogues on Poetry and Psychoanalysis’

Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis | "I must find new words": Dialogues on Poetry and Psychoanalysis
 

Mondays

2nd June to 21st July 2025
7:30pm - 9:00pm (BST)

Hybrid

In-person at 10 Windsor Walk and online via Zoom.

Recordings are available for 1 week.

The speakers will be in dialogue with Psychoanalyst Dr Anne Patterson, with contributions from Dr Emma Hotopf and Dr Sam Buchan-Watts.

‘"I must find new words": Dialogues on Poetry and Psychoanalysis’

So moved by her experience of being psychoanalysed by Freud, the modernist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) declared, “I must find new words as the Professor found or coined new words to explain certain as yet unrecorded states of mind or being.” This Summer Series, through lectures and discussions with poets, scholars and analysts, considers various encounters between the cultures of poetry and psychoanalysis, their rich historical dialogues, methods of finding and new coinages.

You can register for individual lectures in this series. However, we recommend you book to attend the full series.

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Programme:

2nd June | Wordsworth's Poetic Memory - John Mullan

9th June | In Writing: Adam Phillips in Conversation - Adam Phillips, Edward Doegar

16th June | Mr Outside: Literary and Psychiatric Perspectives on Dementia - Caleb Klaces, Ruth Cairns

23rd June | Make it Better: Deep Acts of Listening - Glyn Maxwell

30th June | Metaphor as a Bridge to Reality: Facing Our Tendency to Deny - Susy Lansman, Síofra McSherry, Tom McLaughlin and Nadira Wallace

7th July | Performing and Talking in the Presence of Others - Denise Riley, Ute Kanngießer

14th July | Attention in Poetry and Psychoanalysis - Liz Allison

21st July | W.H. Auden: Poetry as a Tool of Psychoanalytic Inquiry - Thomas Karshan

REFUND POLICY: Tickets are fully refundable until 14 days before the lecture, after which time no refunds will be issued.

Concession tickets are available, for students, BPAS candidates and NHS trainees and nurses. Please email [email protected] if you are unsure if you qualify for a concession ticket.

Views and opinions expressed by speakers are their own and do not represent the views or opinions of the Institute, event organisers or other speakers. We expect delegates to respect the confidentiality of clinical material discussed in our events. The content must not be recorded, conveyed or disseminated in any format and participants must not share access to the event with non-registered participants.