Visiting Professor Weekend

We are happy to announce that Darian Leader, Lacanian psychoanalyst, will be SFCP’s Visiting Professor from April 12 — April 14, 2024.

During VP Weekend, Darian Leader will come to us via ZOOM in the following programs:

Saturday, April 13, 9:30—11:30 am
“The Role of the Analyst”
Presenter:  Darian Leader
Discussant:  Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein
Moderator:  Patricia Marra
Program Fee:
   $ 95 — General Admission
   $ 80 — SFCP Members
   Free — SFCP and non-SFCP Candidates, SFCP PPTP Trainees, and University Level Students
2 CME/CE credits available for free (for SFCP members) or $ 30 (for non-members)

Sunday, April 14, 10:00—11:30am
Professor’s Choice with Darian Leader
On “Constructions in Analysis”*

Presenter: Darian Leader
Moderator: Israel Katz
Program Fee:
   $ 65 — General Admission
   $ 50 — SFCP Members
   Free — SFCP and non-SFCP Candidates, SFCP PPTP Trainees, and University Level Students
1.5 CME/CE credits available for free (for SFCP members) or $ 22.50 (for non-members)

*Recommended Reading:
Freud, S. (1937). Constructions in Analysis. SE vol. XXIII, pp. 255—269.

Darian Leader is a Lacanian psychoanalyst and founding member of the Center for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR)  in London.  He is a thinker, speaker, and writer whose intelligence and clarity reach a wide international audience — Lacanian and beyond.  Among his prolific publications are titles such as:  Jouissance:  Sexuality, Suffering, and Satisfaction (2021);  “Rereading Little Hans” (2021); Why Can’t We Sleep? (2019); Strictly Bipolar (2013); and What Is Madness? (2011); Why Do People Get Ill?. Most recently, in 2023 he published his latest book,  Is It Ever Just Sex?  He also features in several YouTube lectures, including:  “Interpretation” (2022); “On Jouissance” (2022); and “What Is Sex?” (2022). In all of his writings and talks, Leader illustrates his belief that psychoanalysis thrives on real questions — on exploring what we don’t know —  and inspires his readers to question even further.

Program Schedule

Wednesday, February 25, 07:30pm – 09:00pm
Introductory Session
Peter Goldberg, PhD; and Kristin Fiorella, PsyD, MFT (presenters)

Saturday, March 14, 10:00am – 03:00pm
A Day With Rudi Vermote, MD, PhD
Rudi Vermote, MD, PhD (presenter)

Sunday, March 15, 10:00am – 11:30am
Professor’s Choice
Rudi Vermote, MD, PhD (presenter)

Rudi Vermote, M.D., Ph.D. is a training analyst with the Belgian Society of Psychoanalysis. Past president of the Society and emeritus professor at the University of Leuven, Dr. Vermote has played a major role in shaping psychoanalytic training and research.Internationally known for his presentations and author of Reading Bion (2019), Dr. Vermote draws on late Bion, Eastern philosophy, the writings of Meister Eckhart, and neuropsychoanalysis to illuminate the nonverbal communications of the unconscious (“something beyond thinking”) and its relevance to clinical practice.

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