Events and Seminars

Event	:	47th International Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy Colloquium
Venue	:	Anna Freud 4-8 Rodney Street London N1 9JH
Date	:	17/09/2026 - 18/09/2026
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Extra Info	:	Adolescent Mental Health in the Digital Age (Hybrid) Join us for our 47th International Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy Colloquium, where we'll examine the realities of adolescence in the digital age and reflect on culture, clinical risk and suicide. About this conference Our founder Anna Freud recognised adolescence as a venture into uncertain territory - a necessary exposure to risk, relationality, and the gradual negotiation of a self. But the terrain has shifted. The physical and social environments in which this developmental work has traditionally taken place are contracting with digital platforms filling the spaces they leave behind. The clinical implications are only beginning to be understood but the epidemiological context is stark. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly half of all lifetime mental health conditions emerge before the age of 18, with suicide among the leading causes of death for adolescents and young adults in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Our colloquium aims to bring together clinicians, researchers, and academics to examine the evolving landscape of adolescence in a technologically saturated world, bringing together reflections on digital culture, clinical risk, and contemporary therapeutic practice. Through a series of talks, panel discussions, clinical papers and clinical groups, participants will be provided opportunities to reflect on how psychoanalytic thinking can engage with these shifting realities, holding together the vulnerabilities and resilience of young people while creating spaces for thoughtful clinical reflection rather than simple solutions. Aims of this conference - To bring together clinicians, researchers and academics to share the latest developments in contemporary psychoanalytic approaches in working with adolescents. - To examine how adolescents’ use of digital self-diagnosis and health-tracking practices shapes identity formation and the experience of self in technologically mediated environments. - To integrate research and clinical practice in understanding how to engage and manage risk in working with non-help seeking adolescents presenting with high risk of suicide. - To offer participants an opportunity to share their own clinical experience for further reflection - To introduce two evidence-based psychodynamic models in working with adolescents, The ECID Project in Barcelona and IPDT internet-based psychodynamic therapy.
Organised By	:	Anna Freud
Web Link	:	https://www.annafreud.org/training/courses/adolescent-mental-health-in-the-digital-age-in-person/