Clinical Structures
Bristol, CFAR/Bristol University, Clinical Structures, Culture, mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, talking treatment, Therapy
CFAR & Bristol University Lecture – May 16th 2026 – Luca Bosetti on ASD, ADHD and Neurodiversity
CFAR in association with Bristol University
Luca Bosetti on ASD, ADHD and Neurodiversity
CFAR IN ASSOCIATION WITH BRISTOL UNIVERSITY 2025/26
The third seminar of the series will focus in particular on the question of diagnosis and examine the differences between psychiatric diagnosis, psychoanalytic diagnosis and the phenomenon of self-diagnosis which has currently become prevalent within the neurodiversity movement. Considering some famous cases of both unquestionable and questionable diagnoses of autism – including the animal scientist Temple Grandin and the pianist Glenn Gould – the seminar will illustrate how key psychoanalytic concepts like identification, psychical causality and symbol-formation remain essential resources for clinicians who want to find their bearing when working with patients who present symptoms associated with ADHD or AS
Venue: Please note new venue (no longer at the Merchant Venturers Building!): Room 1.06, Queens Building, University Walk, Clifton BS8 1TR
Please address enquiries to
Conor McCormack at cmccormack16@gmail.com
Bristol, CFAR/Bristol University, Clinical Structures, Culture, mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, talking treatment, 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
Bristol, CFAR/Bristol University, Culture, Freud, mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, talking treatment
Darian Leader – 22nd June 2019 Bristol – Ego-Ideal-Superego: what can we hope for?
CFAR IN ASSOCIATION WITH BRISTOL UNIVERSITY 2018/2019
Ego, Ideal, Superego
Four public seminars on the theme of Ego, Ideal and Superego 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, June 22, 2019 – DARIAN LEADER – Psychoanalyst
Ego-Ideal-Superego: what can we hope for?
After distinguishing the concepts of ego, ideal and superego, we ask the question of how these can be changed – or not – during an analysis. Is the ego diminished or even abolished? Can the Ideal be challenged or displaced? And does the superego become harsher or less punitive?
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: 10.00 am – 12.00 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
Bristol, CFAR/Bristol University, Clinical Structures, Freud, psychoanalysis, talking treatment, Uncategorized
18/5/19: From Freud’s Second Topic to Lacan’s Subject of the Unconscious – Berjanet Jazani
CFAR IN ASSOCIATION WITH BRISTOL UNIVERSITY 2018/2019
Four public seminars on the theme of Ego, Ideal and Superego 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 May 18, 2019
From Freud’s Second Topic to Lacan’s Subject of the Unconscious
BERJANET JAZANI
Berjanet Jazani is a medical doctor and a practicing psychoanalyst in London. She is a trustee and an analyst member of CFAR, where she teaches and supervises clinicians and candidates in training. Forthcoming publications include: “Phoenix: Faces of Desire” Routledge, 2019. “Lacan, forbidden!” in Persian, 2019. Smell: A research on the concept of Drive” and “The Unconscious: Never Explained”. 2020
Attendance Fee: £15; students £10; staff and students at Bristol University free admittance.
Venue: Lecture Room 8, 21 Woodland Road, Clifton
Bristol BS8 1UB
Time: 10.00 am – 12.00 pm
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
Bristol, CFAR/Bristol University, Culture, Freud, mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, talking treatment
CFAR / Bristol Uni Lecture 16/02/19 – Christos Tombras ‘Constructing an Ego – Inhabiting an Identity’
CFAR In Association with Bristol University 2018/2019
Ego, Ideal, Superego
Four public seminars on the theme of Ego, Ideal and Superego 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 16 February 2019:
CHRISTOS TOMBRAS – ‘Constructing an Ego – Inhabiting an Identity’
Christos is a supervising psychoanalyst, practicing in London. He is a member of CFAR. He lectures, runs workshops and facilitates reading groups extensively. His main research interest is in a dialogue between continental philosophy and psychoanalysis. His “Discourse Ontology”, a book discussing Heidegger with Lacan, will be out this summer.
Attendance Fee: £15 students £10; staff and students at Bristol University free admittance.
Venue: (NB!) Lecture Room 8, 21 Woodland Road, Clifton (so not at the Merchant Venturers building!) Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB
Time: 9.30 am – 11.30 pm
Registration: 9.00am 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
Bristol, CFAR/Bristol University, Culture, Freud, mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, talking treatment
Ego, Ideal, Superego: CFAR & Bristol Uni Lectures 2018/2019
CFAR IN ASSOCIATION WITH BRISTOL UNIVERSITY 2018/2019
Ego, Ideal, Superego
Four public seminars on the theme of Ego, Ideal and Superego 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 20 October 2018
Speaker: Anouchka Grose
Saturday 16 February 2019
(speaker to be confirmed)
Saturday 18 May 2019
Speaker: Berjanet Jazani
Saturday 22 June 2019
Speaker: Darian Leader
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
NB The Venue will be confirmed for each event as there may be changes.
Bristol, CFAR/Bristol University, Clinical Structures, Culture, Freud, mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, Queer Theory
CFAR/Bristol Uni: June 30th – Lacan’s of Clinical Structures – PERVERSION – Dr Anne Worthington
CFAR IN ASSOCIATION WITH BRISTOL UNIVERSITY 2017/2018
Lacan’s Concept of Clinical Structures
PERVERSION – Dr Anne Worthington, Psychoanalyst and Senior Lecturer Centre for Psychoanalysis, Middlesex University
Four public seminars on the topics of Neurosis (hysteria and obsession), Psychosis and Perversion 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.
Date: Saturday, June 30, 2018
Attendance Fee: £15 students £10
Bristol University students and staff : free of charge
Venue: Merchant Venturers Building, Room 1.11
Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB
Time: 10am – 12 midday
Registration: 9.15am 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
Bristol, CFAR/Bristol University, Clinical Structures, Culture, mental health, psychoanalysis, Psychosis, psychotherapy, talking treatment
May 12th – Lacan’s Concept of Clinical Structures: Psychosis – Alexandra Langley
CFAR IN ASSOCIATION WITH BRISTOL UNIVERSITY 2017/2018
Lacan’s Concept of Clinical Structures
May 12th 2018 – Psychosis – Alexandra Langley
Four public seminars on the topics of Neurosis (hysteria and obsession), Psychosis and Perversion 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.
Alexandra Langley is a psychoanalyst practising in Richmond. She is member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of The College of Psychoanalysts – UK.
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2018
Attendance Fee: £15 students £10
Venue: (Please note venue change!) Lecturer Theatre 3; Arts Complex 3 – 5 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UB
Time: 10am – 12 midday Registration: 9.15am 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
Bristol, CFAR/Bristol University, Clinical Structures, Culture, Feminism, Freud, mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, talking treatment
3/2/18 CFAR & Bristol University Lecture: ‘Hysteria And Obsession’ by Julia Carne
Lacan’s Concept of Clinical Structures
Four public seminars on the topics of Neurosis (hysteria and
obsession), Psychosis and Perversion are taking place
during 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.
HYSTERIA AND OBSESSION with JULIA CARNE
Psychoanalyst CFAR & In private practice near Cambridge
Member of CFAR’s Training Committee
Date: February 3, 2018
Attendance Fee: £15 students £10
Bristol University Students and Staff: Free of charge
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