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How might psychoanalytic thinking deepen our understanding of trauma when what has been experienced cannot yet be fully ...
10/09/2026

How might psychoanalytic thinking deepen our understanding of trauma when what has been experienced cannot yet be fully represented in words?

In our upcoming seminar, Psychoanalysis and Somatic Trauma Treatment Models, Dr David Levit will explore this intersection between psyche and soma through three key areas:

1. Holding and containing - examining the distinction between these often-interchanged concepts, and what it means for the therapeutic relationship when traumatic experience cannot yet be symbolised.
2. The body's protective responses - looking beyond fight-or-flight to freeze, attachment and orienting responses, and considering what happens when these systems remain dysregulated after trauma.
3. Somatic techniques in psychoanalytic treatment - exploring how somatic approaches can be woven into psychoanalytic work, including how clinicians might recognise and facilitate emerging signs of regulation, agency and a more centred sense of self.

For clinicians working with trauma, it offers an opportunity to consider what becomes possible when we attend not only to what the patient can say, but also to what is being communicated through the body.

📅 18 September 2026
🕐 2–5pm (UK time)
💻 Online & Recorded

Explore the relationship between psychoanalytic and somatic approaches to trauma by signing up today: https://trtogether.com/events/psychoanalysis-somatics

09/09/2026

What does helplessness look like in ADHD, and what might we miss if we understand the presentation only through its observable behaviours?

ADHD is often understood primarily through the lens of attention and hyperactivity. But what happens when we consider the subjective experience of the person living with it?

In this clip from our ADHD & ADD in Adult Psychotherapy seminar, Phil Mollon describes the person with ADHD as feeling “powered like a motor”, compulsively driven, within a hyperactive brain state where thoughts, anxieties and impulses proliferate, with little capacity to exert control over them.

This can create a profound experience of helplessness. When the mind feels difficult to regulate and social situations can be difficult to grasp in their wider context, the person may repeatedly find themselves acting in ways they did not intend, followed by a continual sense of failure.

From a psychoanalytic perspective, this raises important questions about how we understand what we see in the consulting room. What might appear as resistance, impulsivity, emotional dysregulation or a difficulty in relating may also be connected to an underlying experience of not being able to control one’s own mind.

Mollon invites us to think beyond ADHD as simply a disorder of attention, and instead consider the complex interplay between neurobiology, emotional regulation, development and the environment and the shame that can develop when an individual repeatedly experiences themselves as failing to meet the expectations of others.

You can buy the full recording here: https://trtogether.com/event-recordings/adhd-add-in-adult-psychotherapy

What lies beneath narcissistic behaviour?Narcissism is often associated with grandiosity, entitlement, arrogance and an ...
08/09/2026

What lies beneath narcissistic behaviour?

Narcissism is often associated with grandiosity, entitlement, arrogance and an inflated sense of self. But what if these visible behaviours are only part of the picture?

The work of Dr Otto Kernberg, Dr Diana Diamond and Dr Frank Yeomans invites us to look more closely at the psychological organisation beneath narcissistic pathology and consider what may be happening beneath the surface. For Kernberg, the pathological grandiose self is central to understanding narcissistic personality disorder. Diamond and Yeomans have built on this work through their clinical research and the development of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (TFP-N).

Their work raises important questions for clinicians:
What lies beneath the grandiosity?
How does narcissistic pathology shape relationships?
And how can we work therapeutically with what we find?

Join Dr Otto Kernberg, Dr Diana Diamond and Dr Frank Yeomans, with Dr Aner Govrin as facilitator, for an afternoon exploring the understanding and treatment of narcissistic pathology.

📅 16 October 2026 | 2–6pm
💻 Live online
🎓 4 CPD credits

From understanding narcissistic pathology and its different levels, to treatment modifications and clinical case material, this training offers an opportunity to explore the complexities of narcissistic personality disorder with three leading clinicians in the field.

Find out more and book your place: https://trtogether.com/events/treating-narcissistic-pathology

We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone to the Freud Museum next week for An Evening of Film & Psychoanalysis, which...
06/09/2026

We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone to the Freud Museum next week for An Evening of Film & Psychoanalysis, which is now officially sold out!

It’s always a pleasure to bring the TR Together community together in person, and this promises to be a particularly engaging evening of film, psychoanalytic thinking and conversation.

The event creates space to explore how cinema can open up questions around the unconscious, relationships, desire and the complexities of human experience, offering different perspectives on the psychoanalytic themes evoked by the film.

We’re delighted to be joined by Christopher Clulow, Martha Doniach, Krisztina Glausius, Katalin Lanczi, Perrine Moran, Anne Patterson and Kate Thompson, who will each bring their own perspectives and expertise to the discussion, helping us to think more deeply about the film and the ideas it raises.

And the conversation won’t end when the screening does. We’ll be gathering for drinks afterwards, giving everyone the chance to continue the discussion, share reflections and connect with one another in a more informal setting.

We love creating events that give our community the opportunity to step away from the usual clinical setting, experience something together and think collectively and we’re excited to see where the evening’s conversations take us. See you there! ✨

05/09/2026

When “weird” behaviour becomes a diagnostic clue

What if the behaviour we experience as “weird”, disruptive or difficult to understand is actually telling us something important about how a child experiences and organises the world?

In this short clip, Stephen Seligman explores a young boy who repeatedly tripped other children as they walked past. His behaviour was initially difficult to understand, he was told to stop, yet continued.

A closer understanding of his neurodynamic functioning revealed that he had difficulty organising and sequencing his experience. He wanted to make contact with other children, but struggled to understand the implicit steps involved in approaching someone and entering into play.

Once these processes were made explicit and he was helped to practise them, his behaviour began to change.

He went from being “weird” to being understood.

For psychotherapists, this case offers a valuable reminder of the importance of staying curious when a patient's behaviour seems puzzling. Rather than rushing to interpret what we see, considering how neurodynamic differences may shape communication, relationships and the organisation of experience can open up a different way of understanding the patient and create new possibilities for therapeutic work.

🎥You can purchase the full recording on working with Neurodivergent Clients here: https://trtogether.com/event-recordings/neurodiverse-clients

What happens to the self when psychic life is shaped by rupture, fragmentation and states of profound psychological dang...
04/09/2026

What happens to the self when psychic life is shaped by rupture, fragmentation and states of profound psychological danger? And how might the analytic relationship create possibilities for renewal, connection and psychological growth?

Join TR Together for a rare opportunity to hear directly from Michael Eigen, one of contemporary psychoanalysis’ most original and influential thinkers, alongside Dr Loray Daws, co-editor-in-chief of the Michael Eigen Series at Routledge, and Dr Aner Govrin as Chair.

Drawing on his work with severely detached, unwanted and psychically endangered patients, Eigen explores the emergence of the self through repeated experiences of rupture and reunion across mind, body and relationships.

The programme will explore Eigen’s distinctive thinking around the inviolable or indestructible, psychic becoming, separateness and connection, catastrophe and faith, and the different ways these forces can become antagonistic, symbiotic, parasitic, dissociative, nullifying or nourishing within psychic life.

For psychotherapists and psychoanalytic practitioners, the seminar offers an opportunity to deepen clinical thinking about entrenched states of mind, psychic fragmentation and the conditions that support psychological growth and transformation. It also considers Eigen’s development of ideas associated with Bion, Winnicott and Henry Elkin, offering new ways of thinking about the relationship between mental pain, survival and renewal.

With Michael Eigen opening the seminar with a one-hour presentation, followed by two talks from Loray Daws and discussion chaired by Aner Govrin, this is a particularly significant opportunity to engage with Eigen’s work firsthand.

📅 Friday 6 November 2026
💻Live online | 3 CPD credits

Secure your spot: https://trtogether.com/events/michael-eigen

03/09/2026

How much can happen in a moment of shared distress?

In this clip from Dr Beatrice Beebe’s, Joining Your Baby’s Distress Moments, we see a mother and baby communicating through subtle shifts in facial expression, voice and affect.

Twice, when the baby becomes distressed, the mother briefly joins him with a “woe” face and vocalisation. Beebe describes these moments as small but important: the mother is recognising the baby’s experience and communicating, in effect, I see you. I understand that something is wrong.

The baby’s distress doesn’t need to be immediately stopped or fixed. Instead, it is met and shared within the relationship.

Beebe’s research highlights how these moment-to-moment patterns of recognition and regulation contribute to the development of secure attachment. It offers a powerful reminder of how much relational communication takes place before words, through timing, rhythm, facial expression, voice and the capacity to enter another person’s emotional experience.

For psychoanalytic thinking, these early interactions also invite us to consider the origins of how we come to feel seen, known and understood by another.

🎥 Watch the clip and notice the two moments when the mother joins her baby’s distress.


What can psychoanalysis help us understand about eating disorders?Join Tom Wooldridge and Aner Govrin for the next semin...
02/09/2026

What can psychoanalysis help us understand about eating disorders?

Join Tom Wooldridge and Aner Govrin for the next seminar in our Free Series: Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis, exploring psychoanalytic approaches to eating disorders.

Drawing on Tom Wooldridge’s book, Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction, this conversation will explore what may lie beneath eating disorder symptoms, from primitive anxieties and trauma to questions of desire, body image, agency and self-cohesion.

The discussion will also consider what this means for clinical practice, including how therapists can look beyond the symptom to understand the individual’s underlying psychic structure, while attending to the realities of nutrition and everyday life.

💡 What you’ll gain:

• A deeper understanding of contemporary psychoanalytic approaches to eating disorders

• New perspectives on anorexia, the body and self-cohesion

• Insight into trauma, containment, desire and agency

• Clinical ideas for working with patients experiencing eating disorders

📅 Thursday 22 October 2026

⏰ 6:00–7:15pm (UK)

💻 Live online | Free to attend

🎓 1 CPD credit

An open, interactive conversation with plenty of opportunity to engage through Q&A. Find out more and book your free place here: https://trtogether.com/events/eating-disorders

What happens when therapy ends and what can we learn from endings that don’t go to plan?Termination is one of the most s...
01/09/2026

What happens when therapy ends and what can we learn from endings that don’t go to plan?

Termination is one of the most significant stages of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic work, yet endings are rarely as straightforward as theory might suggest. Treatments can end abruptly, remain unfinished, be avoided, or continue in unexpected ways, creating complex clinical and emotional challenges for both therapist and patient.

Join Dr Joyce Slochower for Endings: Partial, Abrupt and Avoided Endings, a thought-provoking CPD seminar exploring the complexities of endings in contemporary psychoanalytic practice.

Through Dr Slochower’s relational and object-relational perspectives and extensive clinical experience, you’ll gain new ways of thinking about:

• How to recognise and work with different types of endings
• What happens when therapist and patient have different wishes or expectations around termination
• How to navigate the emotional impact of ending treatment
• How to respond when an ending is abrupt, avoided or remains unresolved
• What these experiences can reveal about the therapeutic relationship and clinical process

Whether you’re currently working with a patient approaching an ending or simply want to deepen your understanding of termination, this session offers valuable clinical perspectives to bring into your practice.

📅 Friday 4 December 2026
🕑 14:00–17:00 (UK)
🎓 3 CPD credits
🎥 Recording included

Secure your spot here: https://trtogether.com/events/endings-terminations

29/08/2026

What makes the Embodied Consultation Group different from a traditional consultation group?

In this video, Dr Fran Sommer Anderson explains how the group creates space to explore the full range of our experience when working clinically, not only the theoretical or cognitive understanding of a case.

This means paying attention to the analyst’s responses at every level: physically, emotionally and cognitively, and considering how these reactions can deepen our understanding of the person and the treatment.

Drawing on her own experience of peer consultation, Fran describes how this way of working can be particularly valuable when we find ourselves struggling with a treatment or feeling stuck in our clinical work.

The Embodied Clinical Consultation Group offers an ongoing, reflective space to explore the relationship between body, mind, attachment, affect and clinical practice, with a particular focus on chronic pain and somatic symptoms.

Led by Dr Fran Sommer Anderson, the nine-session online group will also introduce experiential approaches including breathwork, visualisation and sensory exploration, alongside clinical discussion and reflection.

📅 September 2026 – June 2027
💻 Online | 9 monthly sessions
🎓 13 CPD credits

Find out more and secure your place: https://trtogether.com/events/embodied-consultation-group

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