Touching the Real
About Leslie Chapman

About Leslie Chapman

I have been actively involved in the mental health field since 1992, including eighteen years as a psychoanalytic practitioner working within the Lacanian tradition. I undertook my clinical training at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) where I was an Associate Member up until September 2018. Over the last few years I have been exploring and developing a range of ideas concerning Lacan’s concept of the Real, and how this links to trauma, history, ideology and politics. In August 2023 I completed my doctoral thesis on the topic of Freud’s theory of the traumatic neuroses.