Annual Research Lecture 2024

Patrick Luyten, PhD is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven (Belgium) and Professor of Psychodynamic Psychology at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London (UK). His research is fundamentally translational, as he is interested in translating knowledge concerning the mechanisms involved in the causation of psychopathology to the development of new interventions, the evaluation of their (cost)-effectiveness, and their dissemination to and implementation in routine clinical care. 

Dr. Luyten is Director of the PhD in Psychoanalysis Programme at University College London, UK. He serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals, including Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. He is also the recipient of the 2009 Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contributions Award from the International Psychoanalytical Association. He heads a treatment service for patients with depression and functional somatic disorders in PraxisP, the treatment center of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences from the KU Leuven, Belgium. He has published more than 300 papers on psychoanalytic theory, research and therapy, and one his books, co-edited with Linda C. Mayes, Peter Fonagy, Mary Target and Sidney Blatt, Handbook of Psychodynamic Approaches, received the 2015 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship.

Jessica Yakeley is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy at the Portman Clinic and a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society. She has published widely on psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalytic approaches to topics including medical education, violence, risk assessment, prison health, and antisocial personality disorder, and has a particular interest in psychoanalytic empirical research. 

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