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Public Seminars


Timetable for Spring term 2026

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 **:

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If you are unable to do this then please contact the administrator ([email protected]) who will provide BAC payment details.

Saturday 10 January

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1.45 – 3.15 Short Course: Repetition DANY NOBUS
3.30 – 5.00 Round Table: RRB in Autism LIVIA DE MARCO, ALEXANDRA LANGLEY, DARIAN LEADER

Saturday 17 January

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11.00 – 12.45 Introductory Lecture: Transference DANY NOBUS
3.30 – 5.00 Freud Seminar: ‘Moses and Monotheism’ (1939) DANY NOBUS

Saturday 31 January

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11.00 – 12.45 Introductory Lecture: Hysteria and Obsession LUCA BOSETTI
1.45 – 3.15 Dazed and Confused II: Approaching Lacan’s L’Étourdit CHRISTOS TOMBRAS
3.30 – 5.15 The Element of Prosody in Communication with Out of Reach and Empty Patients ANNE ALVAREZ
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, former Co-Chair of the Autism Service at The Tavistock Clinic

Saturday 7 February

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1.45 – 3.30 What We Know About Risk Factors for Autism in the First Few Months of Life MARIE-CHRISTINE LAZNIK
Psychoanalyst, Paris, Centre Alfred Binet, Member Association Lacanienne Internationale
3.45 – 5.30 Transdisciplinary Treatment for Babies at Risk: The Psychoanalyst,
The Osteopath and The Psychomotor Therapist
MARIE-CHRISTINE LAZNIK

Saturday 28 February

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11.00 – 12.45 Introductory Lecture – Psychosis BERJANET JAZANI
1.45 – 3.15 Short Course: Repetition ANDREW HODGKISS
3.30 – 5.30 Neurodiversity: Critical Perspectives GINNY RUSSELL
Associate Professor in Mental Health Sciences, University College, London

Saturday 7 March

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1.45 – 3.15 Neurodiversity – School, Hospital, Clinic CONOR MCCORMACK
3.30 – 5.00 Child Analysis Working Group BICE BENVENUTO

 


Saturday 14 March

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11.00 – 12.45
The Drive
Via Zoom

EVE WATSON
Psychoanalyst and Lecturer, Dublin

1.45 – 3.15 Short Course: Repetition

Via Zoom

LAURA TARSIA

3.30 – 5.30 Autism Revisited: Early Signs. Early Intervention. Scales to Monitor the Process

STELLA ACQUARONE
Child and Adult Psychotherapist, Principal, Parent Infant Clinic and The School of Infant Mental Health, London 


Saturday 21 March

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1.45 – 3.15 Lacan’s Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex DANIEL MAPP
3.30 – 5.00 Period-Bound vs. Area-Bound Discoveries: G. E. Sukhareva and the Female Autism Phenotype
Via Zoom

CHARLOTTE SIMMONDS
Writer, Translator and Autism Researcher

 


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