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A beautiful setting. Three days. Fifteen films. Countless conversations.

Join us for the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival. Explore PASSION through extraordinary European cinema, live discussions and conversation.

13–15 Nov | London

Book: https://t.co/ljQBmuvlxX

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🎥 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐎𝐫𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧 (𝐀́𝐫𝐯𝐚) (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓)

From Oscar-winning director László Nemes, a powerful story of family, memory & identity.

🎤 Followed by a panel with Nemes & Antje Netzer-Stein.

🎟️ https://t.co/ljQBmuvlxX

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What happens when we stop thinking about mind and body as separate?

Join the Maudsley Lectures in Psychoanalysis for an 8-part series exploring psychosomatics, trauma, medicine and clinical practice.

12 Oct–7 Dec | Hybrid | Book: https://t.co/7MRc30PXcj

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Last chance to save 20% on our On Demand courses.

Use code SUMMERIOPA26 before the offer ends and explore expert-led psychoanalytic learning online.

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🎬 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 #𝟔: 𝐎𝐫𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐧 (𝐀́𝐫𝐯𝐚) (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓)

Budapest, 1957. A young boy’s ideas of family, memory & identity begin to unravel.

🎤 Followed by a panel with director László Nemes & Antje Netzer-Stein.

🎟️ https://t.co/ljQBmuvlxX

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Working with self-harm and suicide can be complex and emotionally demanding. Explore a psychoanalytic perspective with William Crouch in 3 hybrid seminars.

📅 29 Sep, 6 & 13 Oct
🕗 8:15–9:45pm

Book: https://t.co/PTz1Vtjs59

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Intrigued by our recent Reading Winnicott Book of the Month series?
Continue exploring Winnicott's ideas with our online Introduction to the Work of Donald Winnicott course, featuring 8 recorded lectures on his key concepts and their clinical relevance.
https://t.co/kyBmvF9kr9

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🎥 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐬𝐭 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒)

A bold exploration of love & mortality through drama, music and dance.

🎤 Screening followed by a panel featuring director Carlos Marqués-Marcet.

🎟️ https://t.co/ljQBmuvlxX

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Relationships are central to mental health work.

Join Marcus Evans and Jo Osimuwa for an 8-part online course exploring therapeutic relationships and some of mental health practice’s biggest challenges.
Book here: https://t.co/bKk9OVs4aq

📅 13 Oct–8 Dec 2026
💻 Online | £100

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🎬 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 #𝟓: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐬𝐭 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒)

Winner of TIFF’s Platform Award, this moving drama explores love, mortality & letting go.

🎤 Followed by a panel with director Carlos Marqués-Marcet.

🎟️ https://t.co/ljQBmuvlxX

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What can psychoanalysis reveal about cruelty, violence and the enduring impact of history?

Join Jonathan Sklar for a special Political Mind event: Dresden: A Discussion of Cruelty, Then and Now.

When? 8 Sept 2026

Book here: https://t.co/ruzHsUtxwt

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Take your learning further this summer.

Save 20% on our On Demand courses with code SUMMERIOPA26 and access expert psychoanalytic teaching whenever it suits you.

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🎬 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 #𝐄𝐏𝐅𝐅𝟏𝟑

15 European films. Three days of screenings, filmmaker conversations & psychoanalytic discussion, exploring this year’s theme: Passion.

📅 13–15 November 2026
📍 1 Wimpole Street, London

🎟️ https://t.co/ljQBmuvlxX

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Book of the Month 📖
Reading Winnicott
Edited by Lesley Caldwell and Angela Joyce

Few psychoanalysts have written more evocatively about what it means to become oneself than Donald Winnicott.

To purchase:🔗https://t.co/OZuMRmYUjI

#DonaldWinnicott #Psychoanalysis

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🎥 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐢𝐦'𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 (𝐋𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐉𝐢𝐦) (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒)

Selected for Cannes Premiere 2024.

🎤 Stay afterwards for an exclusive discussion with co-director Jean-Marie Larrieu.

🎟️ https://t.co/ljQBmuvlxX

#EPFF13 #LeRomandeJim

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Join us for Child & Adolescent Analysis: Under 3s as Judith Jackson presents The Premature Infant, exploring severe prematurity, neonatal care and early relationships through a psychoanalytic lens.

When? 25 Sept 2026

Book your place: https://t.co/5ia6aWyK1r

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🎬 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 #𝟒: 𝐉𝐢𝐦'𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 (𝐋𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐉𝐢𝐦) (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒)

Selected for Cannes Premiere 2024.

A moving drama exploring fatherhood, love and the families we choose.

🎟️ https://t.co/ljQBmuvlxX

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What does it really mean to think psychoanalytically? 🧠

Join The Inside Story: Psychoanalysts in Conversation for talks, discussion & Q&A with members of the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

📅 Sat 26 Sept
📍 Clore Management Building, London

Book: https://t.co/wIB9t6sov2

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Book of the Month 📖
Reading Winnicott
Edited by Lesley Caldwell and Angela Joyce

One of the twentieth century’s most influential
psychoanalysts, Donald Winnicott’s ideas transformed our understanding of emotional development.

🔗https://t.co/OZuMRmYUjI
#DonaldWinnicott

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🎥 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞! (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓)

A brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey. #EPFF13.

🎤 Stay afterwards for an exclusive discussion with writer & director Igor Bezinović.

🎟️ https://t.co/ljQBmuvlxX