upcoming events
trauma, neglect and neurodevelopment: technical challenges of working with complex disabilities
The BPF is bringing together experienced professionals working with children and young people who have experienced trauma,...
sexuality now: moving beyond heteronormativity?
This full-day event is an opportunity to hear from the editors and contributors to the new book 'Sexuality and Gender Now...
mothers accused and abused: addressing complex psychological needs
Angela Foster will focus on the challenges to therapists as they struggle to ‘face’ abusive mothers and hear these women’s...
comparative clinical methods workshop
Members' event. A second workshop on the Comparative Clinical Method (CCM) - a method of understanding better how we work...
latest blog posts
the loop of happiness How to live a good life? Let alone a meaningful one? The mind is required to adjust to a changing world out there and a changing internal landscape inside both body and brain...
pull yourself together: or why you can’t. unravelling mental myths how does therapy change your brain? Mental illness isn’t like physical illness. Mainly because you can’t see it. Humans have...
boarding school syndrome: in conversation with joy schaverien In her book 'Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the “Privileged” Child' Joy Schaverien identified a cluster of...
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