Visiting Professor Weekend

Introductory Session

Date:Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Time:07:30pm – 09:00pm PT
Presenters:Peter Goldberg, PhD; and Kristin Fiorella, PsyD, MFT
Location:Online via Zoom
Program Fee:Free

Rudi Vermote is coming in person from Belgium to San Francisco as SFCP’s Visiting Professor the weekend of March 14 and 15, 2026.  To set the stage for his visit, Peter Goldberg and Kristin Fiorella will conduct a workshop to introduce aspects of Vermote’s thinking on late Bion, especially his conceptual and clinical use of “O.”

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.

Further Readings

In order to get a sense of Dr. Vermote’s analytic attitude, here are some further readings and links!

Books:

  • Vermote, R. Reading Bion (2019)
  • Vermote R. Reaching the body through the mind:  a model and its implications.  In The Somato-Psychic Realm (2025). Ed. Power and Power.

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