26/07/2026
📚We are delighted to share the programme and registration details for the International Postgraduate Conference on Psychoanalytically Informed Trainings: “Innovation, Inclusion and Integrity”.
📆 The conference is taking place online on 26 September 2026, with free registration, organised and hosted by the University of Exeter.
🌍 This international conference brings together postgraduate researchers, clinicians, psychotherapists and educators to explore how psychoanalytically informed trainings can respond thoughtfully to the challenges of our changing world through innovation, inclusion and integrity.
💡 The programme features nine presentations across four themed panels:
• Prof. Nicholas Sarra - Sacred Crucible: The Large Group Community Meeting on the DPPClinPrac Programme at Exeter University (UK)
• Dr. Libby Nugent - Symbolic Elasticity: When Language Shrinks in Psychoanalytically Informed Trainings (UK)
• Dr. Joanne Stubley & Dr. Zack Eleftheriadou - Why Do We Need a Postgraduate Training in Complex Trauma? (Tavistock Education and Training, UK)
• Prof. F***y Guglielmucci, PhD - Can Psychoanalysis Survive Without the University? Rethinking Training, Recognition and Mobility (Italy)
• Dr. Marie Derome, Dr. Dorothee Magni, Dr. Valerie Mortin & Dr. Jennifer Ng - Containment at a Distance: Trust, Co-Presence, and Infant Observation Teaching in Online Seminars (UK)
• Anastasiia Khotimska - A Living Frame: Rethinking Approaches to Psychoanalytic Training in Times of War (Ukraine)
• Lucy Taylor - Infant Observation: Making Sense of Cultural Difference (UK)
• Theodoros Tsirigotis - The Stranger Within: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Cultural Identity and the “Internal Foreigner” in Training Groups (Greece)
• José Antonio Hernández Zeind - Between Two Countries and Two Institutions: Training as a Migrant Clinician. (Mexico/USA)
The conference will feature a live lunchtime musical performance by Arieb Azhar, the Pakistan-based musician renowned for his renderings of traditional Sufi poetry and folk songs.
🖥️ Register for free: https://psychoanalytictrainingsconference.com/registration
🔹Download full programme: https://psychoanalytictrainingsconference.com/programme
