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 Spring 2025

Seminars this term include: “Acting Out”, “Anxiety and Phobia”, and “Hysteria and Obsession”

Short Courses - Autumn 2025 – Acting Out

What makes a patient act out? Is it always to correct the therapist’s mistakes? We are all familiar with the clinical phenomenon of acting out, but how can it best be addressed within the context of analytic work, and how does it differ from passages to the act?

Introductory Course 2024 - 2025

Freud – Lacan: The fundamentals of psychoanalysis