Open Days
Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Training
Date: Friday 19th December 2025
Time: 13:30 - 17:30
Venue: In person at BTPP, 322 Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AA
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Modified Adult Psychotherapy Training
Date: Tuesday 13th January 2026
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Venue: Online
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Friday Open Lectures
" Thinking about Birth and Trauma in a CAMHS Under Fives Clinic"
Speaker: Worcestershire Under Fives Team
Date: Friday 19th December 2025
Time: 13:30 - 15:45
Venue: In person at BTPP, 322 Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AA
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Cost: £40
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“Psychoanalytic Understanding of Emotionally Unregulated Personality Disorder: Countertransference as a Guide, not a Problem”
Speaker: Marcus Evans
Date: Friday 23rd Janaury 2026
Time: 13:30 - 15:45
Venue: Online
Cost: £40
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Speaker: Maria Papadima
Date: Friday 27th March 2025
Time: 13:30 - 15:45
Venue: In person at BTPP, 322 Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AA
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Cost: £40
SATURDAY LECTURES
Speaker: Robert Caper
Date: Saturday 6th December 2025
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Venue: Online
Robert Caper received his medical training at the UCLA School of Medicine and his psychoanalytic training in Los Angeles, from a group of London Kleinians including Hanna Segal, Betty Joseph, Elizabeth Spillius, James Grostein, Donald Meltzer and Wilfred Bion. He is a former member of the editorial boards of International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and is the author of a number of papers on psychoanalytic theory and technique as well as four books: A mind of One's Own, Immaterial Facts, Bion and Thoughts too Deep for Words and Building Out Into the Dark.
Cost: £40
This session is for past and present Trainees and Tutors only.
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More 2026 lectures coming soon …
Workshops are open to professionals working with children and adolescents and others interested in working in a psychodynamic way but places must be booked in advance.
Venue: Birmingham Trust for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Studio 322, Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham B9 4AA
Tel: 0121 7530413
Email: info@btpp.co.uk Website: www.btpp.space
ALL THE SPEAKERS ARE EXPERIENCED CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPISTS, ADULT PSYCHOTHERAPISTS OR PSYCHOANALYSTS WORKING IN THE NHS AND IN PRIVATE PRACTICE.
Previous lectures:
“Psychoanalysis, Eros and Clinical Practice”: Speaker: Maxine Dennis : Date: Saturday 11th October 2025
“May these Memories Break your Falll”: Speaker: Megan Bennett: date Friday 19th September 2025
“Working with Two Siblings in Local Authority Care” : Speakers: Lorraine Mattocks & Jemima Phorson : Date: Friday 18th July 2025 - in memory of Simi Colford.
“Approaching Death and Dying” : Speaker: Elisabeth Dennis : Date: Saturday 14th June 2025
A Qualifying Paper: “Come in - Keep Out” : Speakers: Heather Stewart and Natasha Stubbs : Date: Friday 11th April 2025
“The dreamer is the thinker: discussion of a dream sequence presented by Donald Meltzer” : Speaker: Meg Harris Williams : Date: Saturday 5th April 2025
“Making a Space for Meaning: psychotherapeutic work with autistic children and young people”: Speaker: Matthew Jenkins: Date: Friday 20th December 2024
Live Clinical Supervision : Speaker: Robert Caper : Date: Saturday 7th Decmeber 2024
The ‘transferential leap’- Weaving the work of Louise Bourgeois and infamous Anansi stories Maxine Dennis (psychoanalyst) describes clinical material illustrating the complex interplay between intergenerational trauma and racialisation: Speaker: Maxine Dennis : Date: Saturday 12th October 2024
“Race in the Clinical Encounter: Listening to the Nuances”: Speaker: Narendra Keval : Date: Friday 15th November 2024
“Ali`s wonderland and what she found there: A journey of piecing the unintegrated experience to help the thinking girl build a proper foundation.” : Speaker: Katrina Brailsford : Date: Friday 20th September 2024