Melanie Klein Trust Conference 2023 (In Person & Online)

About this Event

This year’s conference will be offered both in person and online. Please read all of the following carefully before booking.

Full programme coming soon…

This year’s conference, ‘Psychic Change: Challenges for Technique‘, taking place on the 10th of June 2023, will be a hybrid event which means we’ll be offering it both in person and online. Our event will be hosted at the Royal College of Physicians, located in London.

Our key speakers will be David Bell and Catalina Bronstein and the conference will be chaired by Gigliola Fornari Spoto.

Dr David Bell is a Training Analyst and former President of the British psychoanalytic society. He recently retired from the Tavistock, London, where he was Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy and led a specialist unit, the Fitzjohn’s Unit for patients with complex/severe disturbance. He has lectured and published on a wide range of subjects, and throughout his career has been involved in interdisciplinary work exploring the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, philosophy and socio-political theory. He has been deeply engaged in the issue of gender dysphoria in children, trying to keep alive a psychoanalytic perspective in a rather toxic climate. He is also a leading psychiatric expert in asylum / immigration / human rights.

Catalina Bronstein is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and its former President. She is a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst. She is visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London. For the past 25 years she has worked at the Brent Centre for Young People in London, and chairs a psychotherapy workshop there. She is a former London Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and is now on the journal’s Board. Her published works span a range of analytic themes including Klein and Bion, the body and psychosomatic phenomena, adolescent pathology, and the role of delusion and hallucinations and their connection to early anxieties, unconscious phantasies and symbol formation. She edited Kleinian Theory: A Contemporary Perspective, and co-edited a number of books (Attacks on Linking Revisited, The New Dialogues Klein-Lacan, and On Freud’s The Uncanny, amongst others).

Optional online and in person clinical seminars will be offered at various times on Friday 9th of June in the evening and Sunday, 11th June in the morning. These seminars will be open for booking shortly. Places are limited and you are advised to book for these as soon as possible. You may book a seminar on Friday and Sunday, if you wish.

Please note that only qualified psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and IPA candidates may attend clinical seminars and all seminar participants must have stated the name of their registering professional body on their booking form. We reserve the right to cancel and refund your booking if you do not do this.

Tickets: Once you have booked and paid you will receive an email from Eventbrite with your tickets attached. Those attending online will receive a Zoom link closer to the time of the event.

The Ethical Obligations of All Remote Participants:

All those registered for the conference are expected to adhere to the highest professional standards. They must respect confidentiality. Therefore, if you are joining via Zoom, please join the conference from a secure environment where you will not be interrupted by other people. If you think you recognize the identity of a patient in any presentation, please leave the session. Never discuss clinical material outside with anyone. Do not record or disseminate any part of the presentations and discussions on any device. If you have difficulty with any of these requirements, please contact us so we can cancel your registration and refund your conference fees.

Bursaries: The Melanie Klein Trust is a charity, and we rely upon income from events like these to continue our work. However, just as it is a challenging time for us, we understand that many others are in a similar situation, and we do not want the price of entry to be a barrier to anyone keen to attend. We have therefore made a limited number of free places available for those who cannot afford the ticket price. To apply for a free place please contact us, giving some details about yourself and your current situation.

Refund Information: We are unable to offer refunds after 10th May. Unfortunately if you alter your plans and want to join online rather than in person we cannot refund the difference due to the costs we will already have incurred.

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