Conferences & Articles
2026, FEP Congress, Oslo
Conference :
Freud superstar: The psychoanalyst and their Public Avatar. A tempered Neutrality
2025, French Journal of Psychoanalysis, RFP
Article published:
The Selected Fact as a Compass, Between Flashes of Insight and Temperance: Thinking–Dreaming Beyond the Shattering Impact of Trauma
2025, FEP Congress, Dresden
Discussant at Piotr Kraskowski's conference:
Speak freely or you will lose your freedom?
In my own words...
2024, FEP Congress, Florence
Discussant for Julia Flore Alibert's conference:
Cross-identifications play in child therapy
2023, French Journal of Psychoanalysis, RFP
Article published, comments at the French Language Congress (CPL, Lausanne):
Psychoanalysis, an affected theory
2022, Swiss Psychoanalytic Society, Bern
Memorandum of transfer of ordinary (full member) membership:
A psychoanalysis on the lookout: suggestions, emergences and transformation
2022, Polish Psychoanalytic Society, IPP
Conference :
In the flesh: on the lookout for the infantile
2021, IPA Congress, Vancouver
Oral presentation as panel director:
The Infantile to the Rescue? Teleanalysis and Its Risks
2019, FEP Congress, Madrid
Conference
Psychosexuality in the body of the cure, whether you like it or not!
2018, French Journal of Psychoanalysis, RFP, PUF
2017, IPA Congress Buenos Aires
Conference & Published Article:
The work of the feminine in the psychoanalyst-analyzed relationship, or the discovery of the strange novelty of the other
2018, French Journal of Psychoanalysis, RFP, PUF
2017, IPA Congress Buenos Aires
Conference & Published Article:
The work of the feminine in the psychoanalyst-analyzed relationship, or the discovery of the strange novelty of the other
2016, IPSO, Geneva
Conference :
To play or not to play in the psychoanalyst's mind
2015, Bulletin of prerequisites for the CPL congress
Article in the pre-published proceedings of the Congress of French-Language Psychoanalysis (CPLF), Paris
What aspects of infantile sexuality allow for the acceptance or the stumbling block of the feminine in both sexes?
2015, Bulletin of prerequisites for the CPL congress
Article in the pre-published proceedings of the Congress of French-Language Psychoanalysis (CPLF), Paris
What aspects of infantile sexuality allow for the acceptance or the stumbling block of the feminine in both sexes?
2004, International Society for Adolescent Psychiatry and psychology, ISAPP, Rome
Conference :
Self-Harm in Adolescence: Pathology or Passing Trend?
Training
2022
Swiss and International Psychoanalytical Society
IPA/Sspsa
Psychoanalyst IPA/SSpsa
As a full member in 2022, Ms Valérie Ji-Sook Burnet is qualified to conduct psychoanalysis on the couch 3-5 sessions per week, indepedently, in order to train future psychoanalysts to become members of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society (SSpsa) and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) founded by S. Freud in 1910. She was admitted to training in 2011 and became an Associate Member in 2018. Like every member of her Society, Ms Valérie Burnet underwent extensive psychoanalysis herself and rigorous assesment by sevaral committees throughout her training.
2026
Swiss Association for Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy ASUPEA
Psychoanalytic psychotherapist for children and adolescents
Elected President in 2026, after having been a member of the executive committee, Ms. Valerie Ji-Sook Burnet supports psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented therapy within the association, notably by inviting psychoanalysts to give lectures and provide supervision. She graduated from ASUPEA in 2008.
2011
European Federation for psychoanalytic psychotherapy,
EFPP
EFPP-certified psychotherapist
Ms. Valérie Ji-Sook Burnet is qualified to supervise psychotherapists, psychologists and physicians working towards a federally recognised qualification in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
2005
Swiss Federation of Psychologists FSP
and right of practice Ge, Vd
FSP specialist psychologist in psychotherapy, licensed to practise in Geneva and Vaud
Federal recognition is required to practise independently and for treatment to be reimbursed by health insurance. This status requires adherence to professional confidentiality and the ethical principles of the profession.
2003
University of Geneva,
Faculty of Psychology, University of Geneva
Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology (DESS)
Bachelor's and Master's degrees in clinical psychology