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Tavistock Relationships Couple Therapy Summer School Session Spotlight!Homophobia for Everyone: The Relevance of Homopho...
20/06/2026

Tavistock Relationships Couple Therapy Summer School Session Spotlight!

Homophobia for Everyone: The Relevance of Homophobia and Shame for All Sexualities

What if homophobia is not only a social phenomenon, but a psychic one?

In this thought-provoking session, Leezah Hertzmann explores how psychoanalysis, once used to pathologise homosexuality, can instead help us understand the complex and often unconscious nature of desire, identity, shame, and prejudice.

Drawing on contemporary psychoanalytic thinking from a post-heteronormative perspective, Leezah will consider the role of internalised homophobia, the enduring relevance of Oedipus, and the ways shame can shape both intimate relationships and clinical work. Through clinical vignettes, she will invite therapists to reflect on where homophobia and shame reside within their own internal worlds, and what this means for working with couples and individuals today.

A compelling session for psychotherapists interested in sexuality, unconscious process, and the challenges of contemporary clinical practice.

You can explore the full Summer School programme here: https://trtogether.com/events/couple-therapy-summer-school-2026

⏰ Last Chance to Join!What might the skin be expressing when words cannot?Join Prof Jorge Ulnik today for a fascinating ...
19/06/2026

⏰ Last Chance to Join!

What might the skin be expressing when words cannot?
Join Prof Jorge Ulnik today for a fascinating psychoanalytic exploration of the skin as a psychic boundary and a site where emotional experience may find expression.

Drawing on clinical work at the intersection of psychoanalysis and dermatology, this webinar will explore how symptoms such as eczema, psoriasis, chronic itching, and skin-picking can be understood as unconscious communications, difficulties in symbolisation, and expressions of psychic suffering.

Attendees will gain:
✓ A deeper understanding of the skin as a psychic container
✓ Insight into psychosomatic processes and affect regulation
✓ Rich clinical material from psychoanalytic psychodermatology
✓ New perspectives to bring into therapeutic practice

📅 Today | 2-5.30pm (GMT)
💻 Live Online
🎓3.5 CPD Points | Certificate & Recording Included

Secure your place now: https://trtogether.com/events/skin-and-psychoanalysis

Why More Psychoanalytic Clinicians Should Train in Couple Work When a couple begins to recognise that what feels fixed, ...
18/06/2026

Why More Psychoanalytic Clinicians Should Train in Couple Work

When a couple begins to recognise that what feels fixed, personal, and one-sided is also jointly produced, the clinical field shifts. Attention moves away from locating “the problem” in one partner and towards understanding the emotional positions each has come to occupy in relation to the other. The relationship itself becomes available for thought in a new way.

Shared unconscious fantasies, projections, and long-standing collusive patterns often experienced as simply “how things are” begin to lose their inevitability when they can be reflected upon rather than only enacted. Partners are encountered less as fixed roles (the withdrawer, the critic, the needy one, the one who shuts down) and more as complex individuals caught within a shared relational system.

This does not remove conflict. It changes its meaning. The aim is not harmony, but psychological freedom: the capacity to think, to feel, and to respond rather than repeat.

Some of the most significant shifts are subtle, certainty giving way to curiosity, blame interrupted by reflection, and moments where something new becomes possible between two people.

If this way of thinking about relationships interests you, we are running introductory trainings in couple psychotherapy.

Tavistock Relationships Couple Therapy Summer School: https://trtogether.com/events/couple-therapy-summer-school-2026

An Introduction to Therapy with Couples: https://trtogether.com/events/an-introduction-to-therapy-with-couples-summer-26

Foundation Certificate in Couple Counselling and Psychotherapy: https://tavistockrelationships.org/training-courses/introduction-foundation/foundation-counselling-course

17/06/2026

⏰ Tomorrow! Free Series: Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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

Join Aner Govrin in conversation with Meg Harris Williams as they explore Meltzer's enduring contribution to psychoanalysis, including his influential understanding of borderline and psychotic states and his concept of the Claustrum.

This thought-provoking discussion will offer fresh insights into personality development, states of mind, and the evolving relevance of contemporary psychoanalytic thinking.

Attendees will gain:
✓ An accessible introduction to Meltzer's key concepts
✓ New perspectives on emotional development and mental functioning
✓ Insight into borderline and psychotic states
✓ The opportunity to engage in live discussion and Q&A with leading psychoanalytic thinkers

📅 Tomorrow, 18 June | 18:00–19:15 (GMT)
💻 Live Online
🎓 1 CPD Point
🎟️ Free to Attend

Secure your free place: https://trtogether.com/events/intro-contemporary-psychoanalysis-meltzer

This Friday: Skin & Psychoanalysis with Dr Jorge Ulnik What can psychoanalysis and dermatology reveal together about suf...
16/06/2026

This Friday: Skin & Psychoanalysis with Dr Jorge Ulnik

What can psychoanalysis and dermatology reveal together about suffering, identity, and the body?

Drawing on decades of clinical and research experience in psychodermatology, Dr Jorge Ulnik will explore the intersection of psychoanalysis and dermatology, examining how subjective experience can be expressed through the skin.

Topics include skin and gaze, itching and anxiety, body image, ego functions, and the role of boundaries in the development of identity. Skin symptoms can be understood as forms of communication, defense, or even substitutes for identity.

A physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, Dr Ulnik is a Full Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, founder of a psychosomatic treatment centre for patients with skin diseases, founder and president of EULAPS, and recipient of the 2021 Sigourney Award.

Join us this Friday for a fascinating exploration of the skin as a site where mind and body meet.

📅 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

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Compulsive Eating & GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs with Susie Orbach, Jean Petrucelli, ...
15/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Compulsive Eating & GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs with Susie Orbach, Jean Petrucelli, and Tom Wooldridge on Friday 12 June.

Together, we explored the profound clinical questions emerging as GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro become increasingly present in therapeutic work.

Our top 6 takeaways from the afternoon:

1. Eating Disorders and GLP-1s
The complexity of these drugs for those with eating disorders whether they restrict, binge or purge.

2. Losing defences too quickly
What happens when defences (body fat) are stripped away too quickly and the psyche cannot process that which emerges.

3. Embodied counter transference
Working with the body, and states of body/mind is important with these clients due to difficulties of living from the body and of embodiment itself.

4. Empty Countertransference when working with patients in GLP-1s
Some felt a void in the countertransference when working with these patients as if a communication had been muted or dissociated.

5. The illusion of control
An omnipotent sense of control may be what patients are seeking through these drugs which offer an alternative to limits and frustration but can also give way to newfound agency and the liberation of aggressive energies in the service of the client.

6. The therapist’s body
What happens when the clinician is also on GLP1drugs or has a different body shape to the client.

We look forward to continuing the conversation. Watch this space!

14/06/2026

This summer marks 40 years since Susanna Abse first attended the Couple Therapy Summer School.

Since attending, Susanna has become one of the UK's leading psychoanalytic couple psychotherapists. She is Co-Director of the Queen Anne Street Practice, author of Tell Me the Truth About Love, former CEO of Tavistock Relationships, former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and a Senior Fellow of the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology.

We're delighted to welcome her back to this year's Summer School, where she will lead a session exploring the particular fragilities men struggle with in their couple relationship and how this can manifest in the consulting room.

Join Susanna and an expert faculty for four days of rich clinical thinking, psychoanalytic discussion, and exploration of contemporary couple and family life.

📅 21–24 July 2026
📍 London
📜24 CPD Credits & Certificate included

Book your place and become part of a Summer School that has inspired generations of psychotherapists: https://trtogether.com/events/couple-therapy-summer-school-2026

GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are transforming the experience of appetite and bodily control fo...
12/06/2026

GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are transforming the experience of appetite and bodily control for many patients. For clinicians, the central question is not whether these treatments are “good” or “bad,” but what happens to psychic life when a limit no longer demands adaptation, frustration, or mourning in the same way.

Today’s talks open a space to think about appetite not only as biology, but as meaning, conflict, and relationship at the level of the consulting room.

📍 Online | Today
🕒 Full programme running from 14.00–17.30 (UK)
Jean Petrucelli’s talk will not be recorded.

Join the conversation here: https://trtogether.com/events/compulsive-eating-weight-loss-drugs

Are more of your clients talking about Ozempic, Wegovy, or Mounjaro?As GLP-1 medications become increasingly common, the...
11/06/2026

Are more of your clients talking about Ozempic, Wegovy, or Mounjaro?

As GLP-1 medications become increasingly common, therapists are being faced with new clinical questions that many of us were never trained to think about.

✔ What happens when hunger is medically silenced?
✔ How do these medications change the therapeutic work with compulsive eating?
✔ What happens when hunger is no longer available as a form of communication?
✔ How do we understand changes in appetite, desire, identity, and body experience?
✔ What new challenges and opportunities might emerge in treatment?

Tomorrow's online conference brings together Susie Orbach, Jean Petrucelli, and Tom Wooldridge to explore what these medications mean for psychotherapy and psychoanalytic practice.

If you've been wondering how to think clinically about GLP-1 drugs, this webinar will help answer some of the most pressing questions emerging in practice today.

📅 June 12
💻 Live Online
📜 3.5 CPD Points & Certificate included

Find out more & join the conversation today: https://trtogether.com/events/compulsive-eating-weight-loss-drugs

"The course was insightful and highly relevant to clinical practice... I just wished the Summer School was longer, but t...
10/06/2026

"The course was insightful and highly relevant to clinical practice... I just wished the Summer School was longer, but then good times always feel short!"

Join a community of couple and family therapists, psychotherapists and trainees for four days of learning, reflection and connection at the Tavistock Relationships Couple Therapy Summer School 2026.

Through lectures, clinical discussions, case supervision and shared conversations, you'll explore the unconscious dynamics that shape contemporary relationships. From solo motherhood and changing family structures to shame, sexuality, masculinity, vulnerability and the evolving nature of partnership, the programme offers a rich opportunity to think deeply about the complexities of couple and family life today.

Whether you're looking to deepen your clinical practice, engage with new ideas, or connect with colleagues who share your interests, the Summer School offers a unique space to think and reflect together.

📅 21–24 July 2026
📍 London
🎓 24 CPD points & certificate
🎭 Includes a theatre trip

Secure your place and join the conversation today: https://trtogether.com/events/couple-therapy-summer-school-2026

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