Peggy Vermeesch, PhD

Peggy Vermeesch, PhD

Peggy Vermeesch is a Jungian-oriented 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 publishes articles in French and English, and acts as Bilingual Content Editor for Jungian Psychology Space (JPS) and its Francophone mother site 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

• 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.