Providing London with free and low cost therapy
Howard Hodgkin, Ice, 2013
Courtesy of the Estate of Howard Hodgkin
The Big Give Christmas Challenge
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Matching Donations. Multiplying Impact.
Double the difference of your donation to CPU London by donating through the Christmas Challenge 2023.
We are trying to raise £70,000 or more to help us continue to provide free and low cost psychotherapy in London. We already have donations pledged but we want to raise as much money as possible during this campaign so we would be enormously grateful if you could donate towards our campaign.
#ChristmasChallenge
The Reactor
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“Here's where I am, I guess, on this strange journey of grief, unsure of myself, in the mood for strong forces.” – Nick Blackburn, The Reactor
The Sunday Painter is pleased to announce the opening of The Reactor, a group show spanning painting, installation, text and sculpture that explores the profound and often unspoken impact of grief.
In tandem with the exhibition, a concurrent fundraising effort seeks to offer vital assistance to two London based charities, Camden Psychotherapy Unit and The Listening Place.
How did we get here and why?
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Hugh Brody and Mike Brearley in conversation, exploring the overlaps between psychoanalysis and anthropology.
In their two new memoirs, Mike Brearley and Hugh Brody have written about the unexpected but intensely absorbing directions their lives have taken. In their conversation about these books, they will share memories that link the personal with the professional. They will also explore some of the fascinating bridges across seemingly wide intellectual divides: both anthropologist and psychoanalyst are participant observers, intensely engaged with the other but also capable of detachment. Both are on the edge looking into the culture or the patient. Both aim to combat tendencies to assume that the practitioner, by virtue of their training, automatically achieves a dispassionate neutrality. These and other zones of overlap between their different but parallel ways of working and understanding the world will guide their conversation.
Hybrid - Online and In Person at the Institute of Psychoanalysis
Recording will be available for one week after the lecture takes place.
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
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This astonishing recent documentary expands and elevates a 3 minute home-movie into a beautiful, forensic examination of a community obliterated.
Join the film's Director and Producer Bianca Stitger, the film’s narrator Actress and CPU Ambassador Helena Bonham Carter and Psychoanalyst, Academic and Author Josh Cohen for a screening and discussion.
24 Hour Knitathon
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Our heartfelt thanks and congratulations to one of our magnificent supporters, Angela Stewart, for raising an incredible £1,375 by holding a 24 hour knitathon.
We are tremendously grateful to Karen for coming up with this brilliant idea to mark World Mental Health Day, and for all her efforts to support us and raise awareness.
Heatwave: Online Art Auction
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An online-only sale featuring contemporary art, editions and photographs from emerging and established artists.
Various artworks (Lots 33 to 51) kindly donated to raise funds for CPU.
London to Brighton Bike Ride
Congratulations to our honorary psychotherapists for completing the epic London to Brighton bike ride in seven hours!
And a big thank you to all of you who sponsored them!
A Springtime Recital: From Chopin to Novello
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Special Fundraising Concert featuring Pianist Ann Sloboda, Cellist Richard Bolton and Tenor Philip Robinson
Art by the Canal with Sheridan Russell Gallery
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A unique art exhibition set in a private house backing onto Regent's Canal.
Listening Devices by Abigail Schama
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Abigail Schama, a longstanding supporter, friend and patron of CPU will be exhibiting new work 'Listening Devices' as part of the London Craft Week.
Talks from the Living Room | Josh Cohen in conversation with Dr Devorah Baum
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Josh Cohen in conversation with Dr Devorah Baum on the publication of his new book ‘How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature’.
Online event
Talks from the Living Room | Rowan Williams in conversation with Michael Brearley
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Rowan Williams in conversation with Michael Brearley.
Online event
50th Anniversary Conference | On Truth
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“…human kind / Cannot bear very much reality” - T. S. Eliot
A day of talks and screening of Hugh Brody’s 1986 film ‘Nineteen Nineteen’ followed by a panel discussion and Q&A
Inside Australia | An Evening with Antony Gormley, Hugh Brody and Margot Waddell
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Antony Gormley in discussion with Hugh Brody and Margot Waddell. Including a screening of Hugh Brody’s ‘Inside Australia’
The Good Life | Fundraising Conference
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What makes a life worth living? In what ways do our relationships — past and present — help create the people we are? What do psychoanalysis, art and spirituality have to tell us about forging meaningful lives? A day of talks and discussions.