Public Seminars – Autumn 2025
Saturday 27 September (Room 532)
Add to Google Calendar| 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm |  |
Round Table; ADHD, ASD and Neurodiversity | LUCA BOSETTI, ALEXANDRA LANGLEY, DARIAN LEADER, LAURA TARSIA |
Saturday 4 October (Room 532)
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Introductory Lecture: The Unconscious from Freud to Lacan | DANY NOBUS |
| 1:45 pm – 3:15 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 |
Saturday 11 October (Room B20)
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Freud Seminar: The Neuropsychoses of Defence | BERJANET JAZANI |
| 03:30 pm – 5:00 pm | |
Short Course: Using Variable Time | VINCENT DACHY |
Saturday 18 October (Room B20)
Add to Google Calendar| 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 |
Saturday 1 November (Room 152/153)
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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 |
Saturday 8 November (Room B20)
Add to Google Calendar| 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 |
Saturday 15 November (Room B20)
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Short Course: Using Variable Time | CHRISTOS TOMBRAS | |
| 03:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Freud Seminar: Three Essays on Sexual Theory | DANY NOBUS |
Saturday 22 November (Room B20)
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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 |
Saturday 29 November (Room B20)
Add to Google Calendar| 01:45 pm – 03:15 pm | Child Analysis Working Group | BICE BENVENUTO |
Saturday 6 December (Room B20)
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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 |
Saturday 13 December (Room 421)
Add to Google Calendar| 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 |