Category Archives: Therapy

28/01/23 CFAR Bristol Lectures: An Introduction to the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real – Christos Tombras

CFAR IN ASSOCIATION WITH BRISTOL UNIVERSITY 2023

An Introduction to the Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real

(Or was it the other way around?)

Speaker: Christos Tombras

Christos Tombras is a supervising psychoanalyst with a Lacanian orientation, practising in London. He lectures, runs workshops and facilitates reading groups; his main research interest is in a dialogue between continental philosophy and psychoanalysis.

No prior knowledge of Lacan is assumed and the seminars will all include clinical examples involving the kind of problems and questions common to diverse currents in contemporary psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Book Tickets Here: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-introduction-to-the-imaginary-the-symbolic-and-the-real-tickets-486787934817

Bristol University staff & students: free admittance

Venue: Merchant Venturers Building, Room 1.11

Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB

Date: Saturday 28 January 2023

Time: 10am – 12 midday

Registration: 9.30am on the day

Please address enquiries to

Conor McCormack at cmccormack16@gmail.com

Kurt Lampe at clkwl@bristol.ac.uk

Public Lecture 26 11 2022 – CFAR & Bristol University ‘Who Am I?’ Psychoanalysis and Identity with Astrid Gessert

The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and Bristol University
Public Lecture Series 2022/2023

‘Who Am I?’ – Psychoanalysis and Identity with Astrid Gessert

Astrid Gessert is a psychoanalyst and a member of CFAR and of the
College of Psychoanalysts-UK. She has worked in the NHS, in
private practice and as a supervisor. She contributes regularly to the
CFAR public lecture and training programme and lectures and
facilitates seminars at other psychoanalytic organisations. She has
written articles and edited books on psychoanalytic concepts and
obsessional neurosis.

No prior knowledge of Lacan is assumed and the seminars will all
include clinical examples involving the kind of problems and
questions common to diverse currents in contemporary
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Attendance Fee: £15; students £10 (cash only) staff and students
at Bristol University free admittance.

Venue: Merchant Venturers Building, Room 1.11
Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB
Date: Saturday, November 26, 2022
Time: 10am – 12 midday
Registration: 9.30am on the day

Please address enquiries to
Conor McCormack at cmccormack16@gmail.com
Kurt Lampe at clkwl@bristol.ac.uk

Psychoanalyst Darian Leader on the Covid-19 Pandem

Darian Leader - Covid-19–

[Read the full article here on the Huffington Post Site]

“I see a lot of people during the lockdown finding isolation more positive than negative in the sense that they want to have space of their own. Again, the socio-economic factors have to be recognised here. For most people in the world, a lockdown doesn’t mean being on your own because you are in a small place with a lot of other people. You might be living in one room with your family or people that you work with, so it’s only a privilege for some to be able to retreat. In terms of my practice, though, a lot of people say they find the lockdown a great relief.”

Saturday 19th October 2019 – Taking the Royal Road: 120 years of working with dreams – Speaker: Christos Tombras

CFAR in association with Bristol University 2019/2020

Interpretation of Dreams

Four public seminars on the theme of Dream Interpretation will take place throughout the year. No prior knowledge of Lacan is assumed and the seminars will all include clinical examples involving the kind of problems and questions common to diverse currents in contemporary psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Saturday 19th October 2019

Taking the Royal Road: 120 years of working with dreams  

Speaker: Christos Tombras

A supervising psychoanalyst practicing in London, Christos is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.  He lectures, runs workshops and facilitates reading groups.  His book

Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan (2019) is out from Palgrave.

Attendance Fee: £15; students £10; staff and students at Bristol University free admittance.

Venue: Merchant Ventures Building, Room 1.11

Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB

Time: 10am – 12 midday

Registration: 9.30am on the day

Please address enquiries to

Elizabeth O’Loughlin at elizaariadne@blueyonder.co.uk

Jill Brown at mjillbrown@hotmail.com  

Kurt Lampe at clkwl@bristol.ac.uk

CFAR & Bristol Uni Lectures 2019-20: Interpretation of Dreams

CFAR IN ASSOCIATION WITH BRISTOL UNIVERSITY 2019/2020

Interpretation of Dreams

Four public seminars on the theme of Dream Interpretation will take place throughout the year. No prior knowledge of Lacan is assumed and the seminars will all include clinical examples involving the kind of problems and questions common to diverse currents in contemporary psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Saturday 19 October 2019
Speaker: Christos Tombras

Saturday 8 February 2020
Speaker: Dany Nobus

Saturday April 25 2020
Speaker: Vincent Dachy

Saturday 27 June 2020 (tbc)
Speaker: Julia Carne

Attendance Fee: £15; students £10; staff and students at Bristol University free admittance.
Venue: Merchant Venturers Building, Room 1.11
Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB
Time: 10am – 12 midday
Registration: 9.30am on the day

Please address enquiries to
Elizabeth O’Loughlin at elizaariadne@blueyonder.co.uk
Jill Brown at mjillbrown@hotmail.com
Kurt Lampe at clkwl@bristol.ac.uk