7th February 2026 Lecture

Adapting the psychoanalytic approach to work with complex trauma - Joanne Stubley 

To be held online from 10.00am to 12.00noon on Saturday 7th February 2026, by Zoom. Attendance is free of charge for all FPC members and will count as 2 hours CPD. The lecture will not be recorded. To book a place please email admin@thefpc.org.uk 

As our understanding of trauma and its impact broadens, so too must our thinking about how to approach it in the consulting room, especially when working psychoanalytically. A consideration of the role of attachment and mentalisation, neurobiological research, the importance of dissociation and trauma’s impact on the body as well as the mind all needs to be held within a psychoanalytic frame. This allows for a recognition of the centrality of the therapeutic relationship and the transference/ countertransference matrices which will inevitably arise and contribute to the potential for enactments, especially when adaptations are required to engage and contain the individual in the therapeutic work.

Dr Joanne Stubley is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She is the lead clinician of the Tavistock Trauma Service, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a psychoanalyst who has also been trained in trauma-specific modalities of care. Dr Stubley was Co-Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Expert Reference Group on non-recent child sexual abuse. She is an honorary lecturer at University College London and has written widely on trauma, teaching nationally and internationally. She is co-editor of “Complex Trauma: the Tavistock Model” with Linda Young, published in 2022, which was nominated for a Gravida Award. Her second co-edited book with Daniel Taggart is entitled Talking about non-recent child sexual abuse: survivor, clinician and researcher perspectives and is due for publication in 2026.