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

Thursday, April 24, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Introduction to the work of Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA
Peter Goldberg, PhD (presenter)

Saturday, May 3, 10:00am – 12:00pm
A morning with Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA
Bion’s Technique
Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA (presenter)

Sunday, May 4, 10:00am – 11:30am
Professor’s Choice On “Container/contained transformed”
Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA (presenter)

Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA, is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She has presented on Bion’s work in the UK, Taiwan (annually 2005-2012), the USA, and Europe. From 2013–2015 she was a visiting professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Abel-Hirsch edited Hanna Segal’s last book Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2007); is the author of Bion 365 Quotes (2019) and Bion: An Introduction (2023), and is a co-author of Bion in the Consulting Room: An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry (2024). Under the auspices of Understanding Primitive Mental States (Susan Finkelstein, Chair) she is currently presenting a series of seminars on Bion’s work.

Abel-Hirsch: 10 Quotes

In order to get a sense of Dr. Abel-Hirsch’s analytic attitude, here are 10 quotes from a recent event to launch her new book, Bion in the Consulting Room

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