Welcome to The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research


The Centre’s activities include psychoanalytic training, psychoanalytic courses and study groups, a public seminar programme, a clinical service including a low cost clinic, the annual publication of our journal JCFAR and an online web journal offering free articles and transcriptions.

Membership of CFAR gives registration with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). CFAR is a UKCP registered training organisation which is authorised to accredit psychoanalysts.

If you would like to contact one of our psychoanalysts, details can be found on the Analysts of the Centre page.



  • CFAR Open Morning

    Please attend to find out more about our Introductory and Psychoanalytic Studies courses as well as our clinical training in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

  • CFAR Annual Conference

    Structures of Love: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

  • CFAR In Association With Bristol University 2024/25 (Click here)

    Please note that CFAR public seminars will be held at Birkbeck College but are also available on Zoom for those who are unable to attend in person.



CFAR Psychoanalytic Studies 2024

The Psychoanalytic Studies programme offers the opportunity to attend and participate in all relevant CFAR lectures, seminars and activities that form part of the training programme, with the exception of the specific category of ‘clinical seminars’.

CFAR Public Seminars Summer 2025

Seminars this term include: “The Drive”, “Beginning the Treatment”, and “The Object”

Short Courses - Summer 2025 – BEGINNING THE TREATMENT

Explore the Freudian and Lacanian parameters of preliminary meetings

Introductory Course 2025 - 2026

Freud – Lacan: The fundamentals of psychoanalysis