Peggy Vermeesch, PhD

Peggy Vermeesch, PhD

Peggy Vermeesch is a Jungian psychodynamic counsellor in private practice, who works via Zoom in English, French, and Dutch. She teaches English for psychologists at the University of Western Brittany, and is a former researcher in geophysics at Imperial College London and the Universities of Texas and Southampton.

She presents at international conferences and writes on Jungian topics in both French and English. She serves as editor-in-chief of Jungian Psychology Space (JPS) and bilingual content editor of Espace Francophone Jungien (EFJ). She is also the author of the book Making informed decisions on childbirth: One scientist’s international perspective, published under the pseudonym of Sofie Vantiers. 

For more information, see her webpage.

Articles

• Holding the tension of the erotic transference: embodying Captain Picard in Star Trek’s « The Perfect Mate »
• Erich Neumann’s New Ethic – Shadow and Evil in Star Trek:
  • The collective unconscious in its devouring and annihilating shadow aspect
  • Collective shadow projection and scapegoating: Skin of Evil
  • Transformation of the collective shadow
• Narcissism in fairy tales such as Mary’s Child, Snow White and others:
  • What fairy tales can teach us about healing from early trauma and narcissistic abuse
  • Tricked into carrying someone else’s shadow
  • Intergenerational trauma and healing
• Toni Wolff’s structural forms of the feminine psyche
• The need to acknowledge the archetypal forces within

Interviews

• Exploring paradox in the analytic process—an interview with Martin Schmidt (also available as a video interview)
• Darkness and Light in Seasons of Love—an interview with Susan Tiberghien & Catherine Chevron-Tiberghien
• Unrequited Love, Father Wound, and Fragility of Self—an interview with Susan Schwartz (also available as a video interview)
• Individuation of Analytical Psychology—an interview with Mark Saban

For a list of articles and interviews published in French, visit Peggy Vermeesch’s page on EFJ.