21.–22. february 2026
Seminar led by Sarah Nettleton
Invitation:
The Slovak Psychoanalytic Association would like to invite you to a seminar on:
Christopher Bollas
Christopher Bollas has made an extraordinarily wide contribution to the field of contemporary psychoanalysis. His work covers theory, clinical technique and psychopathology. He has also applied his unique understanding of the mind to fields such as literature, architecture, history, social anthropology and politics, and he has written three novels and a volume of plays.
Expanding on the legacy of Freud, Winnicott and Bion, his work brings together normality and pathology, exploring the complex inter-relationship between the private, internal, subjective world and the world of external objects.
This seminar introduces Bollas’s innovative metapsychology, exploring many of the theoretical concepts that he has developed over the past half century. Clinical material will be used to illustrate his innovative way of working with free association.
Program:
Saturday 21st of February 2026
9:30 am Session 1: The receptive unconscious
11:30 am Coffee break
12:00 pm Session 2: Human idiom
14:00 Finish
Sunday 22nd of February 2026
9:30 am Session 3: Evocative objects and unconscious complexity
11:30 am Coffee break
12:00 am Session 4: Free association
14:00 Finish
Lecturer:
Sarah Nettleton is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. Originally she studied music, working for many years as a piano accompanist, and she has written on various aspects of music and the internal world. In the UK, she teaches Freud, the British Independents, clinical seminars and clinical writing groups, as well as post graduate courses on working with Free Association.
For the past 20 years she has specialised in the work of Bollas, giving lectures and seminars extensively in the UK and in Europe, Norway, Israel, America, Turkey, Mexico, Ukraine and India. This has given her the opportunity to create links with a wide variety of psychoanalytic cultures.
Her book The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: an Introduction was published by Routledge in 2016, and is available in 7 languages.
Interview: Why Bollas
https://porquebollasenglish.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/interview-with-sarah-nettleton-author-of-the-metapsychology-of-christopher-bollas-an-introduction/
Practical Information
- Form: in person
- Language: english
- Place: Slovak Psychoanalytic Association
Street: Jelenia 11, 1st floor, Bratislava
(bell: # 008) - Time: 9:30 – 14:30
- Capacity: 20persons
- Price: 180 EUR, (members of SPSp 90 EUR)
- Registration:
📧 babik@psychoanalyza.sk
With Regards
The Slovak Psychoanalytic Association