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Peter Fonagy

@pfonagy.bsky.social
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Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis & Developmental Science, Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL

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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This might be of interest to Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy practitioners and trainers: I'm hosting an Anna Freud online Continuing Professional Development session on DIT, 30th April. More information available here: www.annafreud.org/training/cou...
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Epistemic Trust and Trauma in DIT - CPD Session
CPD session with Professor Peter Fonagy exploring epistemic trust, trauma and how DIT therapy restores learning, trust and change.
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Book your place for our conference Memory and its Vicissitudes taking from 28-30 November, for more details please visit ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Jacques Lacan: Oui ou non? Discover more about the speakers at our upcoming online conference and register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...
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After Lacan: The Other French School Conference
This UCL Psychoanalysis Unit online conference reintegrates the contributions of the Other French school into ‘classical’ psychoanalysis
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A former PhD student, Rose Palmer, has produced a wonderfully sensitive documentary, 1001 Days, about a team of home visitors supporting pregnant women, new mothers & their babies in a township in South Africa. You can now watch it online, tickets plus Q&A access can be bought here: bit.ly/42BPAvT
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1001 Days | 1001 DAYS | 1001 Days
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Join us this month to explore the barriers to epistemic trust, both within and beyond the therapeutic encounter, and develop transformative solutions at UCL’s "Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade" conference. Book here: www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...
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Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade
Join us to consider the role of epistemic trust in understanding the relationship between culture, communication and psychopathology at this hybrid event
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The current crisis in child mental health is a worrying & urgent issue, and it's not going to go away. Meeting needs for relatedness, autonomy & competence seems to me the basic scaffolding for supporting mental health - read more in this blog for Health Foundation www.health.org.uk/features-and...
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Understanding the crisis in young people’s mental health
Professor Peter Fonagy says the mental health crisis among young people is an urgent call for change.
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A new psychological therapy designed by researchers including Profs @pfonagy.bsky.social & Anthony Bateman & Dr Elizabeth Allison @uclpals.bsky.social has been found to reduce rates of violence and aggression among male offenders with antisocial personality disorder www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...
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New therapy reduces reoffending in male offenders with antisocial personality disorder
A new psychological therapy designed by a team of UCL-led researchers has been found to reduce rates of violence and aggression among male offenders with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD).
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I was delighted to be asked by the Royal Foundation to contribute a guest essay for the Shaping Us Framework launch. Here is a link to it: centreforearlychildhood.org/news-insight...
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Know Ourselves – the importance of self-awareness, agency, and aspiration in early childhood  - CFEC
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It seems ironic to put this up on social media when I suspect the rise of the internet has had a fairly catastrophic impact on social interactions and may be linked to increases in loneliness – but the work of this group on combating loneliness is inspiring: www.youtube.com/watch?v=94i6...
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Through The Ages: Tackling the UK’s Loneliness Crisis | Beyond Borders
YouTube video by Beyond Borders
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We now have the complete programme for our forthcoming hybrid conference on Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy, 22nd-23rd March, run by the UCL Psychoanalysis Unit. Find out more and book here! www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...)
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Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade
Join us to consider the role of epistemic trust in understanding the relationship between culture, communication and psychopathology at this hybrid event
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
What is epistemic trust and why does it matter? Here's a (thankfully) short attempt on my part to explain as a taster ahead of our conference on Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy, 22-23rd March mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/i40DF...
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Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade
Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy - join us at this conference as we look back on what we know so far and forward to new thinking on how the idea of epistemic trust can translate into psychotherapeutic practice. A hybrid event run by UCL Psychoanalysis Unit, 22-23 March: www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalys...
ucl.ac.uk
Epistemic Trust in Psychotherapy: The First Decade
Join us to consider the role of epistemic trust in understanding the relationship between culture, communication and psychopathology at this hybrid event
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
People who are either too trusting or too mistrustful are more likely to believe fake news and conspiracy theories - potentially leading to vaccine hesitancy - finds a new study by researchers @uclpals.bsky.social, including Professor Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de...
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Both mistrust and credulity linked to believing conspiracies
People who are either too trusting or too mistrustful are more likely to believe conspiracy theories and ascribe to vaccine hesitancy, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
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Peter Fonagy @pfonagy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hello Bluesky friends & colleagues. I don’t normally post about my papers but thought it fitting that my first message draws attention to why I am here and not on X. A study we’ve just published on conspiracy thinking, fake news & epistemic trust: journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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The role of epistemic trust and epistemic disruption in vaccine hesitancy, conspiracy thinking and the capacity to identify fake news
Epistemic trust ‐ defined as readiness to regard knowledge, communicated by another agent, as significant, relevant to the self, and generalizable to other contexts–has recently been applied to the fi...
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