London, Sep 26–30 · Montreal, Oct 8–12 · 2026

Psychology, psychiatry and art therapy across two trips

Checked against each host organization's own page. Note that Sept 31 doesn't exist, so London is read as Sept 26–30, with Oct 1–2 flagged separately in case you meant the turn of the month.

London, in person

Sat 26 – Wed 30 Sept
Sat 26 Sep9:30am–5:30pm

The Inside Story: Psychoanalysts in ConversationIn person

Institute of Psychoanalysis, with the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research. Clore Management Building, London WC1E 7JL. Chaired by Alex Winter and Antonella Trotta.

£50, or £30 concession. A full day of talks and discussion groups on mourning and mental illness, becoming an analyst, psychoanalytic thinking with couples, and storytelling in psychoanalysis. Built for people new to the field or weighing up training, so no clinical background assumed. This is the clear pick of the window.

Tue 29 Sep8:15–9:45pm

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Self-Harm and SuicideHybrid

British Psychoanalytical Society. William Crouch, formerly consultant clinical psychologist in the NHS. Institute of Psychoanalysis, London W9 2BT, or online.

£160, or £120 concession. Three seminars (29 Sept, 6 and 13 Oct); registration covers the full series and can't be split. Papers circulated in advance. Open to clinicians across psychotherapy, psychiatry, nursing, social work and the voluntary sector.

London, online

Same window
Sat 26 Sep9am–3:45pm

Innovation, Inclusion and IntegrityOnline

International Postgraduate Conference on Psychoanalytically Informed Trainings. Run by the University of Exeter's Doctorate in Psychodynamic & Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice, listed through the British Psychoanalytic Council.

Free. Nine presentations by postgraduate researchers, practitioners and trainers, plus a CPD certificate for anyone who attends and a lunchtime set of Sufi poetry and folk songs from Arieb Azhar. Registration closes 18 Sept and the day is not recorded, so it has to be attended live.

Sat 26 Sep

Working alongside neurominority and learning disability communitiesOnline

British Association of Art Therapists. Masterclass on Zoom.

The only art-therapy event in the window. BAAT's annual conference is 7 Nov at King's College London.

Tue 29 Sep10am–12pm

Understanding emotions as an alternative to diagnosisOnline

British Psychological Society. Emotion-focused interventions for young people and adults, offered as an alternative to traditional CBT.

£91.67 + VAT, or £55 + VAT for members.

Tue 29 Sep1–2pm

Beyond the Fifty Shades DefenceOnline

BPS Insight Series, episode eight. Media representations of sexual agency and victim blaming in the Grace Millane case.

£10, free for BPS members.

Wed 30 Sep6–7:30pm

The Dead That Answer Back: Conversational AI, Mourning and Posthumous PresenceOnline

Freud Museum London, Freudian Research Seminar.

£10 to £15. On what happens when the dead appear to answer back.

Wed 30 Sep5:45–7:35pm

Introductory Lectures in PsychoanalysisOnline

Institute of Psychoanalysis. Autumn term runs Wednesdays from 23 Sept to 2 Dec.

£395 for the autumn term, £315 concession. A course rather than a drop-in, so it only works if she wants the commitment.

Montreal

Thu 8 – Mon 12 Oct

This window is empty, and that's the finding rather than a gap in the search. Mon 12 Oct is Thanksgiving. The only item anywhere in Montreal on those five days is a McGill health-sciences-education community meeting on Thu 8 Oct, which is a doctoral comprehensive presentation rather than a psychology or psychiatry talk.

The one genuine Montreal event nearby is the Douglas Research Centre neuroscience seminar with Stephanie Zandee of The Neuro and the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health, Mon 5 Oct, 11:30am, at 6875 Boul. LaSalle. That is three days before the window opens. The Douglas calendar carries exactly two entries for the whole of October, this and Thanksgiving.

Just outside the dates

If either trip can flex
Thu 24 Sep

Moral Injuries in Forensic Settings, BPS Faculty of Forensic Clinical Psychology annual event, in person, 9am–5pm. Two days early.

Thu 1 Oct

Why EDI Matters in Perinatal Psychology, BPS webinar, free.

Fri 2 Oct

Implementation of AI in Psychological Services, BPS Division of Clinical Psychology, free online workshop.

Sat 7 Nov

BAAT annual conference: Sustaining care, King's College London, Strand. £135 to £255. The main UK art therapy event of the year.

Nov 18–21

Canadian Psychiatric Association annual conference, Le Centre Sheraton, Montreal. Still the substantial Montreal option if the trip could shift.

Both earlier gaps are now closed. The British Psychoanalytic Council's listing was behind a bot block; opened directly in a browser, it added the free Exeter conference on 26 Sept. The Anna Freud Centre's trauma and neurodivergence conference turned out to be 21 April 2026, already past and marked full, so it was never a candidate. The rest of their catalogue is undated online e-learning rather than dated London conferences.

Also: searching "London psychology conference September 2026" returns a wall of ConferenceIndex and AllConferenceAlert listings. Those are predatory conference mills. Excluded on purpose.