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What happens when appetite is chemically silenced and food becomes repugnant? For decades, psychotherapists have worked ...
06/06/2026

What happens when appetite is chemically silenced and food becomes repugnant?

For decades, psychotherapists have worked with the emotional meanings of hunger, desire, longing, and need. But the rapid rise of GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro is transforming the landscape of bodies, appetite, and eating in ways we are only beginning to understand.

We're delighted to welcome Jean Petrucelli, PhD, internationally recognised expert in eating disorders and editor of the award-winning Body-States, to explore these questions in her thought-provoking presentation:

Bodies in Trouble: A Psychoanalytic Look at the Collision of Bodies, Appetite, and Desire. Are the GLP-1 Medications More Friend or Foe?

Drawing on her pioneering work in embodied experience, dissociation, self-regulation, and the interpersonal treatment of eating disorders, Jean will examine the opportunities and risks these medications present for patients and clinicians alike.

As she reminds us, the challenge remains helping patients learn to live from their bodies rather than manage them.

Compulsive Eating & GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs: Appetite, Control, Longing and Desire in the Consulting Room.

Join Jean Petrucelli, Susie Orbach, and Tom Wooldridge for an important conversation about the future of psychotherapy in the GLP-1 era.

⚠️ Jean Petrucelli's presentation will not be recorded.

📅 Friday, June 12, 2026 | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm (UK)
📍 Zoom
📚 Ticket includes: Certificate (3.5 CPD credits)
🔗 Join the conversation: https://trtogether.com/events/compulsive-eating-weight-loss-drugs

What can Donald Meltzer's ideas still teach us about the mind, personality development, and clinical practice today?We a...
05/06/2026

What can Donald Meltzer's ideas still teach us about the mind, personality development, and clinical practice today?

We are delighted to offer an in-depth conversation with Meg Harris Williams and Aner Govrin, editor of the Routledge Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, exploring Meg's contribution to the series, "Donald Meltzer: A Contemporary Introduction".

Together, they'll unpack Meltzer's contributions to understanding borderline and psychotic states, modes of identification, symbol formation, and the complexities of the post-Kleinian model of the mind.

Attendees will gain:
✓ A deeper understanding of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking
✓ New perspectives on developmental and anti-developmental modes of identification
✓ Insight into how Meltzer's ideas can enrich clinical understanding and therapeutic work
✓ The opportunity to engage directly with leading psychoanalytic thinkers through live discussion and Q&A

Whether you're a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychiatrist, counsellor, or simply interested in the evolution of psychoanalytic thought, this free online event offers an accessible introduction to ideas that continue to shape clinical practice today.

📅 18 June 2026
💻 Live Online
🎟️ Free to attend
🎓 1 CPD credit

Reserve your place and join the conversation today: https://trtogether.com/events/intro-contemporary-psychoanalysis-meltzer

Psychoanalysis has always understood that our earliest experiences shape who we become. Today, attachment research, deve...
02/06/2026

Psychoanalysis has always understood that our earliest experiences shape who we become. Today, attachment research, developmental neuroscience and trauma studies continue to deepen our understanding of how relationships, adversity and development interact across the lifespan.

This August, the Tavistock Relationships Contemporary Psychoanalytic Online Summer Programme explores human development from infancy to later life, including attachment, infant research, developmental trauma, dissociation, couple relationships, ageing and mortality.

Join Dr Zack Eleftheriadou, Dr Joanne Studley and Dr Andrew Balfour for three engaging sessions of psychoanalytic thinking across the lifespan.

You can explore the full programme here: https://trtogether.com/events/online-summer-school-2026

📅 3–5 August 2026
🕘 9.00am–12.00pm
💻 Online

Psychoanalysis

01/06/2026

Susie Orbach invites you to join her, Tom Wooldridge, and Jean Petrucelli for our upcoming webinar, Compulsive Eating & GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs, on 12 June.

As GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro become increasingly common, they are transforming not only people's relationships with food but also raising important questions for psychotherapists.

These medications are designed to suppress hunger and create rapid satiety, but what happens to the feelings of longing, desire, need, and appetite that have traditionally been explored in therapy? How do we understand eating difficulties when appetite itself is being altered?

Drawing on clinical case material and contemporary thinking about the body, Susie will explore the psychological, relational, and ethical questions these medications bring into the consulting room, and how therapists can work thoughtfully in this changing landscape.

A thought-provoking session for anyone working therapeutically with eating, body image, desire, and control. You can secure your place here: https://trtogether.com/events/compulsive-eating-weight-loss-drugs

📅 12 June 2026
📍 Live Online
🎓 3.5 CPD points + certificate included
🎥 Recording included

31/05/2026

Get to Know Our Speaker: Prof Jorge Ulnik

Prof Jorge Ulnik is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and internationally recognised expert in psychosomatics and psychodermatology. For many years, he has worked alongside dermatologists, exploring the complex relationship between the mind, the body, and the skin.

In TR Together's upcoming webinar, Skin and Psychoanalysis, Prof Jorge Ulnik will draw on his extensive clinical experience to examine how emotional suffering may be expressed through the skin, and how psychoanalysis and dermatology can work together to deepen our understanding of patients' experiences.

The seminar will explore themes including:
• Skin and gaze
• Itching and anxiety
• Body image and identity
• Ego functions and psychic boundaries
• The relationship between what the psychoanalyst hears and what the dermatologist sees

A fascinating and clinically rich perspective for anyone working therapeutically with patients suffering from skin conditions.

📅 Friday, June 19th, 2026
📅 14.00 – 17.00 (UK)
📍 Live webinar

Certificate and recording included . You can secure your place here: https://trtogether.com/events/skin-and-psychoanalysis

How do early attachment experiences shape one’s capacity to manage pain and emotional distress?Over six weeks, participa...
30/05/2026

How do early attachment experiences shape one’s capacity to manage pain and emotional distress?

Over six weeks, participants joined us for Working at the Intersection of Attachment, Trauma, and Chronic Pain with Dr Frances Sommer Anderson and Katy Wakelin, exploring contemporary understandings of chronic pain through a relational and psychotherapeutic lens.

Some key takeaways from the series:

1. Acute and Chronic pain are perceptions comprised of sensations and reactions to sensations: Sensations+Emotions+Beliefs = SEC

2. Chronic pain is not due to tissue injury, structural deformity, or disease process.

3. A thorough medical evaluation is essential before attempting to treat chronic somatic pain.

4. It may be necessary to help the patient learn to regulate the autonomic nervous system before they can deal with more complex learning.

5. Education about chronic pain and how it is generated by and processed by the brain is necessary to reduce the fear of the sensations, to help the person learn to feel safe in their bodies, and to learn to feel safe experiencing their emotions.

6. Chronic pain can serve as a psychic regulator, e.g., a distraction or a psychological defense again emotions/memories that are too painful to feel consciously.

7. The quality of the relationship with the physician and mental health clinician is central because it taps into the earliest roots of our attachment to caregivers.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this thought-provoking and clinically rich series.

This year’s Tavistock Relationships Couple Therapy Summer School explores Couple and Family Life in Transition through a...
29/05/2026

This year’s Tavistock Relationships Couple Therapy Summer School explores Couple and Family Life in Transition through a series of thought-provoking lectures and discussions from our experienced faculty.

Here is a snapshot of some of the speakers and what they will be exploring.

- Perrine Moran will examine contemporary film as a lens through which changing relational identities and “in-between” states can be understood clinically.

- Martha Doniach will explore solo motherhood by choice, inviting us to rethink assumptions about triangulation, absence, and psychic thirdness beyond the traditional heterosexual couple.

- Susanna Abse will consider masculine fragility and the defences mobilised against vulnerability and dependence within intimate relationships.

- Leezah Hertzmann will explore homophobia and shame when it extends beyond sexuality itself, challenging clinicians to reflect on the unconscious normative assumptions within their own internal worlds.

Alongside this, the programme explores themes of assisted reproduction, sexuality, cultural difference, and ageing, offering rich opportunities for learning, reflection, and discussion.

Our summer school is open to experienced couple clinicians and those in the field who are curious to learn more. Lectures will be taught as a group, and clinical discussions will be organised around clinical experience. You can apply here: https://www.tfaforms.com/5194085

📅 21–24 July 2026
📍 London

Prof Jorge Ulnik brings psychoanalysis into dialogue with dermatology through years of collaborative work alongside derm...
28/05/2026

Prof Jorge Ulnik brings psychoanalysis into dialogue with dermatology through years of collaborative work alongside dermatologists treating patients with skin conditions.

In his work, symptoms such as eczema, psoriasis, chronic itching, and skin-picking are understood not only medically, but also psychologically as forms of communication, affect regulation, and expressions of emotional experience that cannot easily be symbolised.

Ulnik observed that patients often split their difficulties between the dermatologist and the analyst, seeking either medical or psychological help. Bringing these disciplines together supported a deeper integration of psyche and soma, often contributing to the healing process itself.

A fascinating and clinically rich perspective for anyone working therapeutically with patients suffering from skin conditions.

Skin and Psychoanalysis
With Prof Jorge Ulnik
📅 Friday, June 19th, 2026
📅 14.00 – 17.00 (UK)
📍 Live webinar

Certificate and recording included

Book tickets here: https://trtogether.com/events/skin-and-psychoanalysis

Join us for what promises to be a rich and reflective session.

27/05/2026

What do GLP1 medicines do to the inner life not just the body?

In his talk for our upcoming workshop on compulsive eating and GLP1 drugs Tom Wooldridge, psychoanalyst, will draw on a composite case. One in which binge eating resolves without significant weight loss and where mourning of an idealised self is necessary and another where pharmacologically assisted weight loss delivers a powerful new feeling of control and with it unveils conflicts and meanings that unwanted weight had previously held, mourning does not simply disappear when the body finally changes, it shifts.

It’s not one to miss! Join the conversation today: https://trtogether.com/events/compulsive-eating-weight-loss-drugs

📅 June 12, 2026, 14.00 - 17.30 (UK)

📍 Online Event
🎥 Recording included with all tickets
📜 3.5 CPD Points & certificate included

For psychoanalysis, eating has never been simply about food. Appetite, bingeing, hunger, fullness, and bodily distress a...
26/05/2026

For psychoanalysis, eating has never been simply about food. Appetite, bingeing, hunger, fullness, and bodily distress are often bound up with longing, attachment, rage, shame, dependency, control, and unmet emotional need.

As GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro increasingly enter the consulting room, clinicians are being confronted with profound new questions:

• What happens when compulsive eating is abruptly switched off?
• What does appetite, craving and desire go?
•What about mourning?
• How do these medications reshape transference and countertransference?

Join Susie Orbach, Jean Petrucelli, and Tom Wooldridge for a thought-provoking online conference exploring the psychological and cultural implications of GLP-1 weight loss drugs and their impact on contemporary psychoanalytic practice.

📅 Friday, June 12, 2026 | 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm (UK)
📍 Zoom & Recording
📚 Ticket includes: Certificate (3.5 CPD credits), & Recording
🔗 Register here: https://trtogether.com/events/compulsive-eating-weight-loss-drugs

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