Timetable for Autumn term 2025
Venue: Birkbeck College, Malet Street, WC1 – ROOM NUMBER WILL VARY
The seminars will be a combination of in person at Birkbeck College and Zoom sessions
If you would like to join a seminar via Zoom then make a payment by the Friday before the seminar date. Once payment has been received your name will be put on the list and a link will be sent to you for the seminar(s) booked.
Entrance fees:
£10 for one seminar (£7 concessions)
£15 for two seminars attended on the same day (£12 concessions)
£22 for three seminars attended on the same day (£18 concessions)
** NB: SHORT COURSE: £100 for all four seminars or £27 per seminar **:
If you are unable to do this then please contact the administrator ([email protected]) who will provide BAC payment details.
| 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
Round Table; ADHD, ASD and Neurodiversity |
LUCA BOSETTI, ALEXANDRA LANGLEY, DARIAN LEADER, LAURA TARSIA |
| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm |
Introductory Lecture: The Unconscious from Freud to Lacan |
DANY NOBUS |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |
Short Course: Using Variable Time |
ASTRID GESSERT |
| 03:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Lacan through the Looking Glass: The Mirror Stage from 1877 to 1974 |
SAM PALMER |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |
Freud Seminar: The Neuropsychoses of Defence |
BERJANET JAZANI |
| 03:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Short Course: Using Variable Time |
VINCENT DACHY |
| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm |
Introductory Lecture: The Mirror Phase |
ANDREW HODGKISS |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |
ADHD – Mental Disorder or Augmented Child, Augmented Adult? |
PATRICK LANDMAN
Psychoanalyst and Psychiatrist, Paris. Member of Espace Analytique |
| 03:30 pm – 5:15 pm |
Samuel, The ADHD Child Who Was Never Listened To |
PATRICK LANDMAN |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |
Short Course: Using Variable Time |
BERJANET JAZANI |
| 03:30 pm – 5:30 pm |
The First Hyperactive Children: ADHD in Historical Context |
MATTHEW SMITH
Professor of Health History, University of Strathclyde’s Centre for Social History of Health and Healthcare |
| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm |
Introductory Lecture: The Oedipus Complex from Freud to Lacan |
ASTRID GESSERT |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |
Freud Seminar: Studies on Hysteria |
HENRIK LYNGGAARD |
| 03:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Why We Need a More Rigorous Approach to ‘Lived Experience’ in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research |
ILINA SINGH
Professor of Neuroscience and Society, University of Oxford, Co-Director at Wellcome Trust Centre for Ethics and the Humanities |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |
Short Course: Using Variable Time |
CHRISTOS TOMBRAS |
| 03:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Freud Seminar: Three Essays on Sexual Theory |
DANY NOBUS |
| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm |
Introductory Lecture: Identification |
LUCA BOSETTI |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |
Psychoanalysis and Capitalism(s) |
VINCENT DACHY |
| 03:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Critiquing the ‘Epidemic’ of ‘Adult ADHD’ and ‘Neurodiversity’. Lessons from Historical Socio-Psychiatric Phenomena |
DEREK SUMMERFIELD
Psychiatrist, Honorary Senior Lecturer at Institute of Psychiatry |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |
Child Analysis Working Group |
BICE BENVENUTO |
| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm |
Introductory Lecture: The Real, The Symbolic and the Imaginary |
BERJANET JAZANI |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |
Diagnostic Ambiguities: ADHD Diagnosis from a Lacanian perspective |
GWION JONES & KRISTINA VALENDINOVA |
| 03:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Dazed and Confused I: Approaching Lacan’s L’Étourdit |
CHRISTOS TOMBRAS |
| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm |
Round Table: ADHD and the (De)supposition of the Subject |
SOUKAINA AMIRA, LIVIA DE MARCO, LUCIA CORTI, ARTURO BANDINELLI |
| 03:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Psychoanalysis and Teaching |
JAMES TOWN |
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