07/05/2026
This year's British Psychoanalytic Association Debbie Bellman Memorial Lecture, from Meg Harris Williams, is 'Learning from the Experience of Reading Bion’s Autobiographies'. In her talk Meg will describe some key elements that emerge from Bion’s presentation of his ‘self’ in his autobiographical works, and how, as with creative fiction, identification with these becomes a passionate learning experience for the reader, by encouraging or even demanding that further symbolic transformations are made.
📆 Friday 5th June 8:00 - 10:00 pm and Saturday 6th June 2026 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
📍 Hybrid event
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The Debbie Bellman Memorial Lecture is a special event organised by the Scientific Committee to celebrate the life of Debbie Bellman, a founder member of the BPA, its first Honorary Secretary, former chair of the Scientific Committee, and co-editor of two volumes of psychoanalytic papers authored by BPA writers. Debbie is warmly remembered as a committed teacher and tutor who wished the BPA to become an active participant in the international psychoanalytic forum by funding speakers from around the world.