CIPS NewsBriefs - Spring 2022
VPSG: Publications, Awards, Important Speaking Engagements
Reporter: Leslie Wells, LP, FIPA
Mina Levinsky-Wohl, LP, FIPA
July 29, 2021 – IPA Congress Online – Presenter. Pichon Rivière: Key Contributions and its Relevance to the Infantile.
Presenters: Mina Levinsky-Wohl, United States; Gabriela Legorreta Canada; Jani Santamaria, Mexico; Orly Marcovich, United States.
VPSG Events
2021 Soirée
Salman Akhtar, MD, FIPA, presented at VPSG’s soirée: “Words, Wordlessness and Beyond”. This event had two components. The morning presentation was for clinicians, “Listening to Silence: From Hesitation to Insight. The afternoon discussion was open also to poets, writers, readers, and philosophers, “Listening to Poetry: From Delight to Wisdom.”
Our Scientific Meetings 2021 included the following presentations:
- Sally Ackerman, PhD, FIPA, “A Diagnosis for Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century: Freud as Medicine” (March);
- Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD, FIPA “Where Oedipus was, Pleasure shall be” (April);
- Gabriela Legorreta, PhD, FIPA, “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Parenthood and Assisted Reproductive Technology” (May);
- Yolanda de Varela, PhD, FIPA, “The Shift of Frame and Primitive Anxieties” (November); and,
- Louis Brunet, PhD, FIPA, “Psychoanalysis and Psychoanaltyic Psychotherapy” (December).