Upcoming Events
Scientific Meetings
September 18, 2024 Two-Page Paper Presentation
October 16, 2024 Paper Discussion: "Maintaining and developing a containing institution: A challenge for psychoanalysts?" by Gabriele Junkers.
November 20, 2024 Nancy Chodorow: TBD
January 15, 2025 Paper Discussion: TBD
February 19, 2025 Paper Discussion: TBD
March 19, 2025 Dominique Scarfone: "That is not analysis: Ethics as the main tool for psychoanalytic knowledge and discussion".
May 21, 2025 Two-Page Paper Presentation
September 18, 2024 Two-Page Paper Presentation
October 16, 2024 Paper Discussion: "Maintaining and developing a containing institution: A challenge for psychoanalysts?" by Gabriele Junkers.
November 20, 2024 Nancy Chodorow: TBD
January 15, 2025 Paper Discussion: TBD
February 19, 2025 Paper Discussion: TBD
March 19, 2025 Dominique Scarfone: "That is not analysis: Ethics as the main tool for psychoanalytic knowledge and discussion".
May 21, 2025 Two-Page Paper Presentation
Past Events
2024
Scientific Meetings:
January 17 Neal Vorus: "The Interpretive Process"
March 13 Paper Discussion: "Thinking analytically, thinking better: Reflections on transgender" by Agvi Saketopoulou.
May 15 Two-Page Paper Presentation
2024
15th Anniversary VPSG Soirée Agvi Saketopoulou: "Gender through the Resource of Traumatophilia: Psychoanalytic Ethics and Intergenerational Trauma". event flyer
2023
Scientific Meetings:
January 18 Howard Levine: "Fear of Breakdown"
March 16 : Mitchell Wilson: "The Analyst as Innkeeper"
May 17 Two-Page Paper Presentation
September 20 Two-Page Paper Presentation
October 18 Judy Eekhoff: "Soma and Psyche"
2022
Scientific Meetings:
January 19 Fred Busch: "Dear Candidate: Analysts from Around the World offer Personal Reflections on Training" - event announcement
March 16 Maureen Murphy: "Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle": murphy-isc_flyer.pdf
May 18 VPSG Full Members Two-Page Paper Presentation
September 21 VPSG Full Members Two-Page Paper Presentation
October 19 VPSG Full Members Paper Discussion: Writings and Readings of the Pandemic: The Shadows Left Behind" by Fred Griffin
November 16 Caron Harrang: "River to Rapids: Speaking to the Body in Terms the Body Can Understand" harrang_event_flyer.docx
2021
VPSG Soirée Salman Akhtar: Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia: "Words, Wordlessness&Beyond" event flyer
Scientific Meetings:
March 17 Sally Ackerman: "A Diagnosis for Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century: Freud as Medicine" - event announcement
April 21 Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau: "Where Oedipus was, Pleasure shall be." - event announcement
May 19 Gabriela Legorreta: "Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Parenthood and Assisted Reproductive Technology" - event announcement
September 29 VPSG Full Members Two-Page Paper Presentation
November 17 Yolanda de Varela: "The Shift of Frame and the Primitive Anxieties" - event announcement
December 15 Louis Brunet: "Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy" - event announcement
2019
10th Anniversary VPSG Soirée Dominique Scarfone Training and Supervising Analyst, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute: "Transference and Time" - event flyer
2018
VPSG Soirée Alberto Fergusson Professor, El Rosario University, Bogota, Colombia: Beyond the Couch: An Analyst at Work in South America Negotiating Peace with the National Liberation Army - event flyer
2015
Members Meeting with Professor Alberto Fergusson - event announcement
2014
74th Congress of French Speaking Psychoanalysts
VPSG Joint Society Meeting with Mitchell Wilson
VPSG Soirée with Stefano Bolognini IPA President
2013
Members Meeting with Judy Kantrowitz - event flyer
Members Meeting with Fred Busch
Members Meeting with Bill Massicotte
2011
Guest Speaker Night with Ron Brown
2010
VPSG Scientific Meetings; Tuckett Method led by Sharon Dennett - Tuckett Method
Scientific Meetings:
January 17 Neal Vorus: "The Interpretive Process"
March 13 Paper Discussion: "Thinking analytically, thinking better: Reflections on transgender" by Agvi Saketopoulou.
May 15 Two-Page Paper Presentation
2024
15th Anniversary VPSG Soirée Agvi Saketopoulou: "Gender through the Resource of Traumatophilia: Psychoanalytic Ethics and Intergenerational Trauma". event flyer
2023
Scientific Meetings:
January 18 Howard Levine: "Fear of Breakdown"
March 16 : Mitchell Wilson: "The Analyst as Innkeeper"
May 17 Two-Page Paper Presentation
September 20 Two-Page Paper Presentation
October 18 Judy Eekhoff: "Soma and Psyche"
2022
Scientific Meetings:
January 19 Fred Busch: "Dear Candidate: Analysts from Around the World offer Personal Reflections on Training" - event announcement
March 16 Maureen Murphy: "Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle": murphy-isc_flyer.pdf
May 18 VPSG Full Members Two-Page Paper Presentation
September 21 VPSG Full Members Two-Page Paper Presentation
October 19 VPSG Full Members Paper Discussion: Writings and Readings of the Pandemic: The Shadows Left Behind" by Fred Griffin
November 16 Caron Harrang: "River to Rapids: Speaking to the Body in Terms the Body Can Understand" harrang_event_flyer.docx
2021
VPSG Soirée Salman Akhtar: Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia: "Words, Wordlessness&Beyond" event flyer
Scientific Meetings:
March 17 Sally Ackerman: "A Diagnosis for Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century: Freud as Medicine" - event announcement
April 21 Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau: "Where Oedipus was, Pleasure shall be." - event announcement
May 19 Gabriela Legorreta: "Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Parenthood and Assisted Reproductive Technology" - event announcement
September 29 VPSG Full Members Two-Page Paper Presentation
November 17 Yolanda de Varela: "The Shift of Frame and the Primitive Anxieties" - event announcement
December 15 Louis Brunet: "Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy" - event announcement
2019
10th Anniversary VPSG Soirée Dominique Scarfone Training and Supervising Analyst, Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute: "Transference and Time" - event flyer
2018
VPSG Soirée Alberto Fergusson Professor, El Rosario University, Bogota, Colombia: Beyond the Couch: An Analyst at Work in South America Negotiating Peace with the National Liberation Army - event flyer
2015
Members Meeting with Professor Alberto Fergusson - event announcement
2014
74th Congress of French Speaking Psychoanalysts
VPSG Joint Society Meeting with Mitchell Wilson
VPSG Soirée with Stefano Bolognini IPA President
2013
Members Meeting with Judy Kantrowitz - event flyer
Members Meeting with Fred Busch
Members Meeting with Bill Massicotte
2011
Guest Speaker Night with Ron Brown
2010
VPSG Scientific Meetings; Tuckett Method led by Sharon Dennett - Tuckett Method