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25/09/2026

🍂 NEW EVENT ADDED TO OUR AUTUMN PROGRAMME

We’re pleased to announce From Shut-Down to Aliveness: Rethinking Psychoanalytic Technique, a new event with Anne Alvarez and Graham Music, exploring what happens when interpretation alone isn’t enough.

Some patients may present as shut down, numb, empty or seemingly unreachable. But what if these states are not always expressions of conflict or defence? What are the implications for psychoanalytic technique when we are working with what is missing, rather than what is hidden?

Drawing on Anne Alvarez’s pioneering work and Graham Music’s clinical experience and research into trauma, neglect and development, this event will explore how therapists might work with states of disconnection and emotional deprivation and how therapeutic engagement can help bring something new into being.

The programme will consider:
• Working with “unsparked” and “undrawn” states
• The effects of emotional neglect on cognition and development
• Shut-down following trauma and the experience of disembodiment
• When interpretation is helpful and when a more active, responsive approach may be needed
• Embodiment, aliveness, hope and the therapeutic relationship

📅 Friday 20 November 2026
⏰ 2:00pm–5:30pm UK time
💻 Live online via Zoom + recording
🎓 3 CPD credits

Join us this autumn for a clinically rich exploration of psychoanalytic technique, trauma, neglect and what it means to help bring a patient back into connection and aliveness.

Explore the programme and secure your spot here: https://trtogether.com/events/when-interpretation-isnt-enough

24/09/2026

In this clip from our "A Contemporary & Intercultural Perspective on Psychoanalysis - Where do we stand now?" seminar, Prof Salman Akhtar, reflects on how early psychoanalytic thinking, particularly in Freud’s work, was largely shaped by a male perspective. As a result, the experiences and voices of women and girls were sometimes overlooked, misunderstood, or understood in relation to male development.

The development of feminist thinking challenged some of these assumptions, creating space for a richer understanding of female development, sexuality and psychology within psychoanalytic thought. Female psychology could increasingly be considered not as secondary or derivative, but as a central part of understanding psychic life.

This is one example of how psychoanalysis has continued to evolve in response to cultural and social shifts. As our understanding of gender, identity and human experience changes, so too must we continue to examine and question the theoretical frameworks through which we understand our patients.

For psychotherapists, this raises important clinical questions: How do the cultural assumptions within our theories influence the way we listen to and understand patients? What happens when previously marginalised experiences are brought more centrally into psychoanalytic thinking? And how can psychoanalysis continue to develop while remaining grounded in its core principles?

The full recording explores these questions further examining how psychoanalysis has evolved in response to cultural shifts and what this means for contemporary clinical practice. You can purchase the recording here: https://trtogether.com/event-recordings/intercultural-perspective-psychoanalysis

23/09/2026

When working with autistic adults, some of the assumptions underpinning traditional therapeutic frameworks may need to be reconsidered. What we understand as withdrawal, resistance or unusual communication may require us to think differently about how we listen, respond and create meaning together.

In this clip, Darian Leader, reflects on the shift from interpretation towards attunement, moving away from the therapist simply delivering interpretations and towards creating an atmosphere of safety, responsiveness and openness, where an autistic person’s communications can be received and responded to.

Rather than abandoning psychoanalytic thinking, this approach invites us to consider how psychoanalytic perspectives might help create the space for communication to emerge, rather than inadvertently shutting it down.

This raises important questions for clinical practice: What does it mean to be genuinely attuned to an autistic patient? How might our therapeutic stance need to change? And what becomes possible in the therapeutic relationship when communication is approached differently?

Join us for our upcoming seminar Psychoanalysis & Neurodiversity with Darian Leader, where we’ll explore these questions in greater depth and consider how psychoanalytic thinking can inform more responsive and nuanced work with autistic and neurodivergent people.

Explore the programme and book your place here: https://trtogether.com/events/psychoanalysis-neurodiversity

22/09/2026

A rare opportunity to think clinically with Dr Nancy McWilliams

We are pleased to announce that TR Together are offering a small-group Clinical Discussion Group with Dr Nancy McWilliams, providing clinicians with the opportunity to take her psychoanalytic thinking beyond theory and into the complexity of clinical practice.

Rather than a lecture-based format, this small-group experience offers clinicians the opportunity to engage closely with clinical material and consider:

• What lies beneath presenting symptomatology
• How unconscious processes emerge within the therapeutic relationship
• How personality organisation shapes what we listen for and attend to
• The role of defensive processes and unconscious communication
• How formulation can inform the analytic stance and therapeutic technique

The group will explore a range of personality organisations, including depressive and self-defeating, hysterical/histrionic, schizoid, paranoid, narcissistic and psychopathic presentations, moving beyond categorisation to consider their implications for clinical work.

The first session will begin with a clinical case presented by Dr McWilliams, with subsequent sessions offering participants the opportunity to bring their own anonymised clinical material for discussion.

Just 15 places available

📅 Thursday 28 January – Thursday 29 April 2027

⏰ 4:00–5:00pm GMT | Live Online

🎓 4 CPD credits

Places are offered via application and are limited to ensure an intimate space for sustained clinical dialogue and reflection. If interested, we would encourage you to secure your place early as it will sell out.

You can find out more and apply here: https://trtogether.com/events/cdg-nancymcwilliams

21/09/2026

What a thought-provoking afternoon we had on Friday, exploring how insights from somatic trauma therapies can be thoughtfully integrated into psychoanalytic treatment while remaining grounded in psychoanalytic principles.

A huge thank you to Dr David Levit for such an engaging and clinically rich seminar, and to Zach Eleftheriou for helping bring the afternoon together.

We explored how somatic approaches can deepen psychoanalytic work with traumatic, dissociated and previously unrepresented experience.

5 key takeaways:

1. Holding and containment are distinct but complementary
Holding provides a reliable relational environment in which the patient can feel sustained, while containment involves receiving and processing overwhelming experience so it can become bearable and thinkable.

2. Holding through protective postponement
Rather than moving directly into traumatic material, Levit emphasised slowing and modulating activation through protective postponement, titration and co-regulation, helping the patient remain present and able to think.

3. From somatic experience to psychoanalytic meaning
Working bottom-up, attention to bodily states and implicit/procedural memory can provide a route into psychoanalytic understanding, allowing previously unrepresented experience to become thinkable.

4. The therapeutic relationship extends beyond verbal communication
Intersomatic and sub-symbolic communication form part of the clinical encounter, with the therapist’s bodily and emotional responses potentially informing the countertransference.

5. Somatic experience can support psychological integration
Attending to bodily experience can help fragmented states become more integrated, supporting symbolisation and the capacity to think about traumatic experience.

A rich afternoon of clinical thinking and discussion, raising important questions about what becomes possible when we attend not only to what the patient says, but to what is communicated through the body.

The feedback has been fantastic, and we’re already exploring a Part 2 with Dr David Levit. Watch this space!

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17/09/2026

TOMORROW!

What happens when we bring psychoanalytic thinking into dialogue with somatic approaches to trauma?

Tomorrow, our Psychoanalysis and Somatic Trauma Treatment Models seminar with Dr David Levit and chair Dr Zack Eleftheriadou brings together psychoanalytic theory and contemporary understandings of the body, affect and traumatic experience, offering clinicians an opportunity to think more deeply about how trauma is held, expressed and worked through in the therapeutic relationship.

Join us to:
• Explore the relationship between psyche, body and traumatic experience
• Consider how somatic treatment models can extend and deepen psychoanalytic thinking
• Develop your understanding of embodiment, affect regulation and trauma within clinical work
• Deepen your understanding of bodily states within transference and countertransference

Swipe across to explore selected papers by our speaker Dr David Levitt. These papers provide a fascinating introduction to some of the thinking that will be explored during the seminar and the opportunity to engage with this work directly makes this a particularly valuable session for clinicians interested in developing their understanding of somatic trauma treatment.

Last chance to secure your spot: https://trtogether.com/events/psychoanalysis-somatics

17/09/2026

What a brilliant evening. Our An Evening of Film & Psychoanalysis was completely sold out, with the Freud Museum buzzing as we came together to explore what film can reveal about the unconscious, relationships, desire, conflict and the complexities of human experience.

The films gave us a starting point for thinking psychoanalytically but it was the discussion that followed which really brought the evening to life. Our audience shared reflections, questions and different interpretations, opening up new ways of seeing the films and the themes within them.

A huge thank you to our wonderful hosts, Perrine Moran and Martha Doniach, and our speakers, Christopher Clulow, Krisztina Glausius, Katalin Lanczi, Anne Patterson and Kate Thompson, for bringing such thoughtfulness, expertise and curiosity to the evening.Their contributions created a rich space for psychoanalytic ideas to be explored beyond the consulting room and in dialogue with film, culture and one another.

And, of course, we ended the evening with a drinks reception, a chance to continue the conversations, exchange ideas and reflect on the evening together.

We love hosting in-person events like this. There is something particularly valuable about being in a room together, having the opportunity to pause, think, question and exchange ideas in real time.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make it such a memorable evening. Here are some of our favourite moments🖤

15/09/2026

What might psychoanalytic thinking offer our understanding of autism?

Working therapeutically with autistic adults can challenge some of the assumptions we bring to the consulting room, particularly around communication, interaction and interpretation.

Neurodivergent ways of responding and relating can be easily misunderstood, with sensory experiences, direct questioning and differences in communication all shaping the therapeutic encounter.

A psychoanalytic perspective invites us to look more closely at what happens within that encounter.

Rather than focusing only on interpretation, it places importance on safety and attunement: creating the conditions in which an autistic person's communications can be received, responded to and gradually understood.

It also asks us to consider how traditional therapeutic frameworks may need to adapt, and what might become possible when we create space for communication rather than inadvertently closing it down.

How might this shift in perspective change the way we work therapeutically with autistic adults?

Join us for our upcoming seminar, Neurodiversity and Psychoanalysis with Darian Leader, to explore psychoanalytic perspectives on autism and their implications for contemporary therapeutic practice with autistic adults.

Explore the programme here: https://trtogether.com/events/psychoanalysis-neurodiversity

13/09/2026

What happens in the brain when we fall madly in love? And what might that mean for how we understand couple relationships?

In this short clip from our S*x in the Brain: A Neuropsychosexual Approach to Love and Intimacy Seminar, Janice Hiller explores a fascinating finding from neuroscience: activity in the prefrontal cortex and amygdala is reduced during the intense early stages of romantic love.

The prefrontal cortex plays an important role in judgement, decision-making and evaluating information. When its activity is reduced, our ability to critically assess the person we are falling for can become impaired. At the same time, reduced activity in the amygdala, associated with fear and awareness of danger, may mean we are less attuned to potential threats or negative aspects of a new partner.

In other words, the experience of being madly in love may quite literally alter the way we perceive the person in front of us.

For psychotherapists working with couples, this raises important questions. How might our understanding of the neurobiology of desire, attachment and romantic love help us make sense of the idealisation that often characterises new relationships? And what happens when those early neurochemical and neurological experiences change over time?

A neuropsychosexual perspective offers another lens through which to understand the complex interplay between brain, body, sexuality, attachment and intimate relationships and how these processes can shape the difficulties couples bring into therapy.

🎥 You can purchase the full recording here: https://trtogether.com/event-recordings/sex-in-the-brain

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10/09/2026

How might psychoanalytic thinking deepen our understanding of trauma when what has been experienced cannot yet be fully represented in words?

In our upcoming seminar, Psychoanalysis and Somatic Trauma Treatment Models, Dr David Levit will explore this intersection between psyche and soma through three key areas:

1. Holding and containing - examining the distinction between these often-interchanged concepts, and what it means for the therapeutic relationship when traumatic experience cannot yet be symbolised.
2. The body's protective responses - looking beyond fight-or-flight to freeze, attachment and orienting responses, and considering what happens when these systems remain dysregulated after trauma.
3. Somatic techniques in psychoanalytic treatment - exploring how somatic approaches can be woven into psychoanalytic work, including how clinicians might recognise and facilitate emerging signs of regulation, agency and a more centred sense of self.

For clinicians working with trauma, it offers an opportunity to consider what becomes possible when we attend not only to what the patient can say, but also to what is being communicated through the body.

📅 18 September 2026
🕐 2–5pm (UK time)
💻 Online & Recorded

Explore the relationship between psychoanalytic and somatic approaches to trauma by signing up today: https://trtogether.com/events/psychoanalysis-somatics

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