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 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 Autumn 2024

Seminars this term include: “The Unconscious from Freud to Lacan”, “Diagnosis”, and “Lacan, T.S. Eliot, and the Seductions of Modernism”

Short Courses - Autumn 2024 – Diagnosis

Lacanian psychoanalysis puts special emphasis on the question of diagnosis. This does not mean pigeonholing the patient, but elaborating a framework which will help with the listening process and attending to the particularity of each individual subject. A sensitivity to diagnostic issues will also contribute to the formulation of clinical strategies and tactics.

Introductory Course 2024 - 2025

Freud – Lacan: The fundamentals of psychoanalysis