Re-booking for Thinking about Adolescents: A Work Discussion Seminar with Debbie Hindle

Following the success of Thinking about Adolescents: A Work Discussion Seminar with Debbie Hindle, the group will continue to meet under Debbie's supervision. Read more

ISE - Endings and loss: In my beginning is my end

*EVENT SOLD OUT* With T.S. Eliot’s lines from East Coker in mind, Katie Lewis will be exploring the circularity of endings and beginnings, our defences against the painfulness of loss and the possible resolution of mourning. However, there is no development without loss and not all endings are negative. Katie will give three clinical vignettes which will be a basis for discussion during the ISE. Read more

Open Day - May 2022

Join us for our in-person Open Day this May.  It’s an opportunity for prospective students to find out more and speak to our teaching staff about our academic courses. Please note that pre-registration is required for this event.  Read more

Keeping the Baby in Mind: A Celebration of the Work of the Third Sector

HDS has had the privilege of working alongside an amazing group of workers from a variety of settings and agencies in the Third Sector where we have been thinking about Infant Mental Health and in particular baby observation. Now, at the end of our series of courses, we want to welcome back our former students and their colleagues to celebrate and think about the journey we have had together, a rich interchanging of ideas that has informed all our practice. Read more

Graduation event 2023 TWCYP

Join our graduation event at our HDS Training Suite. This will be an opportunity to celebrate our new graduates and provide a networking opportunity. Read more

Graduation event 2023 HRC

Join our graduation event at our HDS Training Suite. This will be an opportunity to celebrate our graduates and any graduands at an in-person event. Read more

ISE - “Just sit with it”: how psychoanalytic observation can sustain thinking and containment in educational settings

Our next ISE (Intensive Study Event) will be in-person and led by Fanny Lena - Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist who trained at the Tavistock Centre in London. Closing date for bookings is 5pm on Monday 6 November. Read more