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British Psychotherapy Foundation
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The British Psychotherapy Foundation is one of the largest independent providers of #Jungian analytic & psychoanalytic #psychotherapy training in the UK. Based in London and Newcastle.

https://www.britishpsychotherapyfoundation.org.uk/
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A good read: Gavin Francis on the current 'epidemic' in mental distress

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

#psychiatry #GPs #primarycare #lifeexperiences #diagnosis
‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness?
Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more harm than good
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February 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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The rise of ‘low contact’ family relationships: ‘I said, Mum, I need to take some space’
The rise of ‘low contact’ family relationships: ‘I said, Mum, I need to take some space’
Many people are now opting for minimal contact with their parents and other relatives. But while this can provide time to think, it is fraught with emotional complexities
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February 5, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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Illuminating podcast from the archive (2012) - Adam Phillips 'Freud's Impossible Life' - psychoanalysis, life stories, the death instinct, heroism, sexuality, modernism.
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Freud's Impossible Life
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February 4, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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‘Psychoanalysis is not in the business of moral enlightenment, at least not directly. Its knowledge is descriptive rather than prescriptive: about the way things are, rather than what they ought to be. For those who have read their Marx, this is already a step in the right direction’
lrb.co.uk London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Dec 17
‘You may reasonably object to the orthodox Freudian picture of the unconscious. But can we doubt that there is more, much more, to our individual and collective lives than that of which we are consciously aware?’

Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics:
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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Our Educating for Empathy in Healthcare course will enable clinicians, educators and academics to develop #empathy teaching in their own settings.

❗️Early bird rate deadline: January 20, 2026
📅 April 20-22, 2026
📍 University of Leicester

🔗 Apply now: le.ac.uk/empathy/stud...
December 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Can psychotherapy make you a better artist?
Fabulous article from PLASTER Magazine by Emily Steer.

'For some artists, analysis unlocks hidden depths; for others, it’s creative quicksand.'
#psychotherapy #psychoanalysis #creativearts

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Can psychotherapy make you a better artist? - Plaster Magazine
Emily Steer discovers how therapy influences modern artists and whether self-analysis helps or hinders creative expression
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December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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We’re delighted to share that the British Psychotherapy Foundation has been ranked 43rd in the National Centre for Diversity’s Top 100 Most Inclusive UK Employers Index 2025.

Thank you to everyone at the bpf for contributing to this important work!

#psychotherapy #DiversityAndInclusion
#EDI
Graphic for the National Centre for Diversity’s FREDIE Awards 2025, featuring a lit stage with spotlights. Text reads: ‘FREDIE Awards 2025 – Top 100 Most Inclusive Workplaces – #43
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Thank you to all our fantastic runners who took on the Wimbledon Half Marathon today in support of the British Psychotherapy Foundation 🏃 Your efforts help make psychotherapy training and low-fee services more accessible and affordable. We’re so grateful.

#TeamBPF #psychotherapy
Image of a Wimbledon Half Marathon medal, with a thank you message saying: A huge thank you to our incredible Wimbledon Half Marathon runners!
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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We’re launching a new fully online intensive summer school for July 2026—an accessible introduction to psychoanalytic & Jungian psychotherapy across the developmental life cycle.

Register your interest: www.britishpsychotherapyfoundation.org.uk/education/co...

#Psychoanalysis #Psychotherapy
Intensive Summer School: Foundations of Psychoanalytic & Jungian Psychotherapy - The British Psychotherapy Foundation
Online Study Course length: 4.5 Days Course Dates: July 2026 This 4.5-day intensive summer school offers a rigorous yet accessible introduction to the essential concepts and cultural significance of p...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This article reviews the conceptualization of mind and therapeutic action in the relational psychoanalytic tradition.
A recent article from our sister journal BJP.
#psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #relational #dissociation
Searching for dissociated self‐states: Relational psychoanalytic conceptualization of mind and therapeutic action
This article reviews the conceptualization of mind and therapeutic action in the relational psychoanalytic tradition. It briefly presents the history of relational psychoanalytic thinking that develo...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Get involved in #AntiBullyingWeek online 💙

Whether you’re a school, an organisation, a parent, a Parliamentarian, a company or you're just keen to take part alone, our Social Media Toolkit has all the information you need to take part!

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October 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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BPF board member Poul Rohleder has published a new book - The Oedipus Complex: A Contemporary Introduction, published by Routledge.
He presents a comprehensive introduction to the theory of the Oedipus complex and its standing in contemporary psychoanalysis.
#psychoanalysis #Freud #psychotherapy
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Journey Into the Unconscious: A Black Therapist in Training Explores Psychodynamics and Cultural Identity - The British Psychotherapy Foundation
When I first encountered psychodynamic theory, I was struck by how deeply it seeks to understand what lies beneath the surface. Not the conscious thoughts we curate for public life, nor even the emoti...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A trainee writes - read the latest Insight column from our website.
#diversity #training #intersectionality #globalmajority #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #edi

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Breaking Barriers: How Diversity Can Enrich Psychodynamic Training - The British Psychotherapy Foundation
As someone who is passionate about psychodynamic therapy and is also on the journey of training within this field, I’ve come to recognise a significant truth: the presence of diversity is not just an ...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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An interesting meditation on 'boundaries' by Lily Scherlis for Parapraxis Magazine:

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bou...

#boundaries #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #therapy
Boundary Issues — Parapraxis
How boundaries became the rules for mental health—and explain everything Lily Scherlis
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September 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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An interesting meditation on 'boundaries' by Lily Scherlis for Parapraxis Magazine:

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bou...

#boundaries #psychoanalysis #psychotherapy #therapy
Boundary Issues — Parapraxis
How boundaries became the rules for mental health—and explain everything Lily Scherlis
www.parapraxismagazine.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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From our sister publication British Journal of Psychotherapy:

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#psychotherapy #justice #injustice
JUSTICE SIGNIFIED: NAMING INJUSTICE IN THE THERAPEUTIC SPACE
In psychotherapeutic practice, trauma—and its resolution—frequently requires some recognition of the role played by injustice. How and to what extent societies and their legal systems choose to provi...
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August 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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🎂 Happy 107th Birthday to Hanna Segal, born on this day in 1918!

Hanna Segal (1918-2011) was a Polish-born British psychoanalyst and one of the most important figures in the development of Kleinian and post-Kleinian psychoanalysis.
August 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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"The subject of the unconscious is a subject that is out of language, and this does not change after a psychoanalysis" — read Tracy McNulty's "Inviting Catastrophe: The Welcoming of the Act in Psychoanalysis" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
An excerpt from the linked article, which reads, in part: "If the structure of the address that founds the social link constitutes the Other as the guardian of the limits of the receivable, then there is an important part of the subject’s experience that cannot pass through language and is not receivable in culture. The characterization of the psychotic’s delusion as 'insane,' and as a danger to the social bond that necessitates involuntary treatment or even arrest, would here be paradigmatic. But we can also think about the experience of the child, whose reality—peopled by imaginary friends and monsters under the bed—is much more capacious than that of the family or society in which he lives. When the child enters into the language of the social link, these experiences undergo censorship: the child literally stops seeing and hearing certain things. And when this censorship does not occur—as in the case of the psychotic—participation in social life can become difficult."
March 27, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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Our paper has been published in the latest issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society - Gay men’s experiences of holding hands in public.
It is published open access, so free to read and download.
#psychoanalysis, #LGBTQ, #homophobia
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Gay men’s experiences of holding hands in public: Psychosocial dilemmas and the discourse of homophobia - Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society
For many members of the LGBTQ community, holding hands with their partners in public, and other public displays of affection (PDAs) is seldom a carefree and spontaneous act. Survey studies have previo...
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June 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This is a wonderful initiative for new mothers.
'therapy for motherhood's darkest days'
#motherhood #overwhelm #depression #postpartum #postbirth #counselling #therapy

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'I felt numb' - how therapy helps in motherhood's darkest days
Women who had their babies six months ago talk about the impact on their mental health.
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August 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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This is a wonderful initiative for new mothers.
'therapy for motherhood's darkest days'
#motherhood #overwhelm #depression #postpartum #postbirth #counselling #therapy

www.bbc.com/news/article...
'I felt numb' - how therapy helps in motherhood's darkest days
Women who had their babies six months ago talk about the impact on their mental health.
www.bbc.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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We’re fundraising to keep #psychotherapy training affordable, improve diversity in our profession, and provide low‑fee therapy for those who need it most.

Support us by signing up for a 2026 Trek Challenge or big‑name races like the Brighton Marathon and London Landmarks Half: bit.ly/4ods3v3
Challenge Events - The British Psychotherapy Foundation
Walk, run, trek or cycle to improve access to psychotherapy. By taking part, you will help us to make our psychotherapy training and low-fee clinical services both equitable and affordable, ensuring t...
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July 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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To mark National Schizophrenia Awareness Day on July 25th, here is an article from Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches journal around working with delusions.
#recovery #severementalillness #psychosis #delusions

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How do people recover from persecutory delusions? An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Patient perspectives on recovery from psychosis have been studied. However, there are few studies on recovery from particular psychotic experiences. Persecutory delusions are common, often distress...
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July 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Shout out for our low cost therapy scheme from Moya Sarner:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Therapy isn’t about life hacks. The best solutions are simpler – and more complex
What we want is quick, clever fixes. What we need is quite different: the ability to tolerate intolerable feelings, to sustainably change and grow
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June 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM