Limits & Liberation in Psychoanalysis: Working with the Frame and Transference

An online workshop with Andie Newman
Saturday 11th October 2025
10am-1pm

Ideas around limits, restrictions and constraints are everywhere to be found within psychoanalysis. In this workshop, we will reflect on how limits operate within – and are essential to – the psychoanalytic approach, including thinking about the frame, boundaries and ‘the rules’; and the consequences of restrictions in opening up – or liberating – the space for the work of psychoanalysis to unfold.  

Alongside other texts, we will be guided by Freud’s key papers on technique, where he outlines his methodology, and those conditions he considers essential to the treatment, based on his discovery of unconscious processes, including transference and resistance.

We will discuss different approaches to the frame, and address the clinical questions and dilemmas thrown up by the traditional conventions of psychoanalysis, and whether or not we need to hold onto these conventions in a contemporary practice.

Andie Newman is a psychoanalyst and supervisor working in private practice in North London. Andie trained with The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and has been a member of the Site’s Training Committee and teaching faculty since 2022. Andie has also taught at AGIP, Highbury Counselling Centre and The Guild of Psychotherapists.

Workshop: 10am – 1pm
Venue: Online

Cost: £40

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The MHCPC Continuing Professional Development programme (CPD) offers short courses to keep clinicians up to date with current developments in the profession and enables them to explore various subjects in more depth. Visiting lecturers and speakers have included:

Christopher Bollas, Patrick Casement, Lavinia Gomez, Nina Farhi, Adam Phillips, Neville Symington, Margot Waddell, Anne-Marie Sandler, Sue Gerhardt.