Past events
Attachment and psychopathology special topics: Serious dysfunction, formulation and treatment planning
This course will focus on several serious disorders that have unclear aetiology and relatively ineffective treatment. The goals will be to explore...
Strength and vulnerability: exploring authenticity and risk in contemporary organisational life
Conference Director: Lydia Hartland-Rowe
Attachment and psychopathology
This three-day course focuses on the development, prevention and treatment of psychological disorder.
Medically Unexplained Symptoms / Somatic Symptom Disorder: National Summit 2018
Researched and produced in partnership with The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and chaired by Brian Rock, Director of Education and...
Ecology, Psychoanalysis and Global Warming - Present and future traumas
Global warming is the most important concern threatening humankind today. It can be both frightening and traumatic. It is a reality, which is often...
Understanding the emotional impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): looking after nurses looking after patients
This innovative conference will address the profound impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) on patients and the complex emotional impact on...
Trauma, Creativity and Resistance
Trauma refers to the emotional distress we experience in response to emotionally painful circumstances often linked to experiences of oppression,...
Systemic Psychotherapy and Queer Practice – Working Alongside LGBTQ People, Relationships and Families. Otherness & Reflexivity (CPD73i)
Guest Speaker: Amanda Middleton This half day workshop will help us learn how we might better get alongside LGBT families of choice. We will look...
The science of gender: evidence for what influences gender development and gender dysphoria and what are the respective influences of nature and nurture
The 2018 European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) science symposium
Assessing Risk in Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System: A relational approach
Practitioners in health, social care and the criminal justice system have to manage challenging risk issues in their day to day work, often without...
Annual General Meeting 2018
...And Portman.
Mentalization and DIT
Mentalization and DIT at the Anna Freud Centre with Deborah Abrahams and Peter Fonagy.
Gender Identity Clinic – information session for GPs
The London-based Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) is inviting GPs, nurses and healthcare professionals to a free Gender Identity Information Session...
Discovering Leadership: Authenticity, Action and Responsibility – a group relations conference
Conference Director: Ben Neal
The Contemporary Observer: Learning and Teaching Psychoanalytic Observation Today
8th International Conference for Teachers of Infant Observation
Book launch: Conjunctions: social work, psychoanalysis and society by Andrew Cooper
We would like to invite you all to the launch of Conjunctions: social work, psychoanalysis and society by Andrew Cooper
Mental Health Research for the 21st Century: Shaping Evidence, Policy and Practice
The University of Essex and The Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust's 4th Joint Annual Research Conference. Book your FREE place on Eventbrite...
Book launch and 50th Tavistock Clinic Series book celebration
We would like to invite you all to the launch of On Adolescence – Inside Stories by Margot Waddell, the 50th book published in the Tavistock Clinic...
Different pasts, shared future – Refugee Week 2018
“We are both similar and different, but we will thrive together” The Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees (University of Essex), The Tavistock...
Living Contradictions: Young people and identities in changing times
This first in a new annual lecture series on “Identities in Transition”, in memory of Stephen Thomson.
The Projections Society: ‘Confusion of Tongues’ and ‘The Nest’
At the 5th floor lecture theatre in The Tavistock Centre Two short films: Confusion of Tongues and The Nest Em Cooper is a British director and...
Trust Scientific meeting: “What were the Germans fighting for in World War II?”
The Second World War was a German war like no other. Having started it, the Nazi regime turned the conflict into the most horrific war in European...
Trust Scientific meeting: Catch 22 – the inflammatory nature of insight
Professor Allyson Pollock gives an account of the thinking behind the NHS Reinstatement Bill.
Understanding trauma: principles and practice - Open evening
If you work with people who have experienced trauma this course will help you to develop a deeper capacity to reflect on your working practice and...
Second systemic postgraduate research conference – curiosity and critical practice research
This postgraduate systemic research conference is for systemic practitioners and is jointly hosted by the two systemic Professional Doctorates at...
The 2018 Tavistock Doctoral Conference: ‘Growth, challenge and change – difference and Innovation in doctoral research’
Join us for presentations, workshops, debate, networking, refreshments, and inspiration.
Child, adolescent and family mental well-being: multidisciplinary practice (D24G, Stroud) - Open morning
This open event will provide a thorough introduction to the PgCert in Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Wellbeing, with presentations from both...
Working with children, young people & families: a psychoanalytic observational approach - Open evening
Our open evenings give you the opportunity to meet members of the course team and have your questions answered before beginning your application...
Systemic approaches to working with individuals, families and organisations - Open evening
This event will give you a chance to meet the course tutor who will be able to guide you through your application journey. We are hosting two...
Trust Scientific meeting: “I haven’t given up”: reflections from First Step about working with children and young people in care
Presenters: Martina Weilandt and Anna Kershaw Chair: Bernadette Wren First Step is a Tavistock service that works to understand better the...
Courage and conviction in conversation: exploring the Tavistock and Portman archives at London Metropolitan Archives
Discover the unique role played by the Tavistock and Portman in the advance of psychotherapy and developmental theory through patient files and...
Psychological therapies - Open evenings
This event is relevant to those who wish to become a child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapist. Tutors from the following courses will be...
Becoming ourselves: the personal experiences of living in care and beyond
Alert: conference postponed due to severe weather warningsDue to the adverse weather conditions (and the forecast looking worse going forward), we...
Trust Scientific meeting: "What is happening to our NHS"
Professor Allyson Pollock gives an account of the thinking behind the NHS Reinstatement Bill.
Austen O'Hanlon: Silence
Austen O’Hanlon is a painter focusing on observations from street scenes. He has a fascination for people and how they respond to their...
Community photography exhibition at Dalston C.L.R. James Library
Dalston CLR James Library, Dalston Square, London E8 3BQ
Education and training open day
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Ruth Solomon: Lightly Go We
Having completed her studies at The Tavistock and Portman, Ruth is returning to showcase some of her latest work. Clusters move together to sing...
The Hamish Canham (Applied) Prize – prizegiving presentation and discussion
Alumni, current students and staff are warmly invited to join us for the presentation of the prize, to hear the winning paper, and to participate...
On the experience of being a GP today
A Thinking Space for GPsGuest Speakers: Dr Jenny Darkwah, GP Dr Moyra McAllister, GP Tim Kent, Consultant Psychotherapist, Primary Care Lead, The...
The Projections Society: 'Truly, Madly, Deeply'
At the 5th floor lecture theatre in The Tavistock Centre An important early film written and directed by Anthony Minghella, Truly, Madly, Deeply...
The Projections Society: 'Still Life'
At the 5th floor lecture theatre in The Tavistock Centre Still Life 2013. Life for unassuming John May revolves around his work for the local...
The future of work in the therapeutic sector – a Tavistock policy seminar
Speaker: Elizabeth CottonChair: Julian LousadaThis seminar presented the results of the 2016 Surviving Work Survey, which looked at the future of...
Trust scientific meeting: 'The centre cannot hold: reflections on loss of form'
Students and alumni are welcome to attend this free meeting presented by Michael Brearley, a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and...
Michael O'Mahony: The dream of Cristiano Ronaldo and other drawings
Exhibition: 10 November-2 January 2018 (9am-8pm Monday to Friday) The works that will be on display at the Tavistock Centre form part of a series...
Effective leadership in the social work profession as a force for good
A Centre for Social Work Practice and Tavistock Clinic Special Event.
Medically Unexplained Symptoms /Somatic Symptom Disorder: National Summit October 2017
A joint conference by Healthcare Conferences UK & The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Trauma in schools: a one day conference supporting school staff and school leaders
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has hosted a series of conferences over many years which have been a focus for developing approaches...
Jas Dahele: Zentangle and Henna Art
Our October 2017 exhibition features another talented staff member from the TEL team. Jas is proud to exhibit her colourful array of pieces, which...
Annual General Meeting 2017
'Gender identity: learning from experience, learning from each other.'