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).