Friday Open Lectures
“May these Memories Break your Fall”
Speaker: Megan Bennett
Date: Friday 19th September 2025
Time: 13:30 - 15:45
Venue: Online
This paper is based on my intensive psychotherapy work with a young boy in a CAMHS service. It explores some of the main themes, highlighting the impact of the absence of a reliable maternal object in early emotional development, and tracking the onslaught of chaotic methods deployed by the child to keep any thinking out.
A fragmented inner world is brought crashing into the clinic room. Over a period of three and a half years, the relentless dangers and provocations gradually find a way of being understood, and allow for the tiniest glimpses of space, extending the boy’s potential to care, and be cared for.
Megan Bennet trained at BTPP and qualified as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in 2024. She has worked with children and families for 25 years in various settings including army barracks and isolated communities. After completing a fine art photography degree, she furthered her interest in the value of non-verbal communication while working with groups of young people in a Women’s Aid centre, and this interest continues to inform her work.
She was an early member of the ACP Climate Action Group and continues to feel drawn to young people’s experience of living and developing in a time of environmental crisis.
Megan currently works in a CAMHS service in Oxfordshire.
Cost: £40
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SATURDAY LECTURES
“Psychoanalysis, Eros and Clinical Practice”
Speaker: Maxine Dennis
Date: Saturday 11th October 2025
Time: TBC
Venue: In person at BTPP, 322 Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AA
Join us for a thoughtful provoking session. Maxine Dennis will move between clinical material, music and literature
Maxine Dennis is a Psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and consultant clinical psychologist , who works with individuals, groups and organisations. One of the original founding members of 10 Windsor walk ( which provides psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and training in south London) and a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. A speaker, lecturer for various psychology, counselling , psychotherapy organisations in the UK and abroad. A training analyst for child psychotherapy and various adult psychotherapy trainings. Her clinical practice is in South London. She has Directed and staffed on numerous group relations conference .
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Cost: £40
Speaker: Robert Caper
Date: Saturday 4th December 2025
Time: TBC
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.
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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:
“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