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W R Bion commemorative conference

The Institute of Psychoanalysis
London 4th July 2025

Event chaired and introduced by Andrew Briggs

Featuring papers by Joseph Aguayo, Nicola Abel-Hirsch, Jani Santamaria, and R D Hinshelwood.

Bust unveiled by Julian Bion

Talks by Julian Bion and Billie Bond (sculptor)

Santamaría Psicoanálisis México

Bion Worldwide Online Seminars, 28th September 2025

Experiences in Groups – Andrew Briggs (UK) and Robert Hinshelwood (UK)

Belgian Psychoanalytic Society

Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, Brussels 15th March 2025

The Survival of thinking in the Workplace

Counselling and Family Mediation

Stornaway, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, 19th April 2025

Where have all the parents gone? Vulnerable children in a Vulnerable Society

Society for Psychotherapy Research (EU/UK Chapter)

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: 12th September 2024

Psychoanalytic Conceptualizations for Couple and Family Therapy and a Simple Way to Assess Effectiveness [Panel/Symposium] Friday | 10:30 am-12:00 pm | U32

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The role of the father is often overlooked by psychoanalytic clinicians largely because they have not been trained to observe it. Further, the role is near invisible in the literature. In this presentation I conceptualize the role and give a case illustration to illuminate how I see the parental couple in clinical work with families. This is based upon the Tavistock understanding of couples and so central to the discussion will be the internal parental couple. The case discussed is of a child with a mental ill-health diagnosis.
The clinical work revealed that the symptoms of this diagnosis were manifestations of parenting that did not include the father who had been excluded by his partner, the child’s mother. This exclusion was due to her denial of an internal father and pre-oedipal relationship with an internal mother. Therefore, ipso facto the internal parental couple was denied and thus so too the external couple as both a romantic/sexual and parental couple.

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