Wilfried
Ver Eecke obtained a doctorate in philosophy
from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He did doctoral
and post doctoral work in Paris, France (with Ricoeur,
Hyppolite, Lacan, and Benveniste), in Freiburg/iBr,Germany
(with Lohmann) and at Harvard, USA (with Putnam, Cavell,
Erikson, Jakobson, Kagan, and Brown). He also obtained
an M.A. in economics at Georgetown University. And was
admitted for psychoanalytic training in the New York Freudian
Society, Washington,DC branch in September 2002. Wilfried
Ver Eecke is professor in philosophy and adjunct professor
in psychology at Georgetown University. He was chairman
of the Philosophy Department from 1980 1983. He was awarded
research grants from the Belgian Science Foundation, the
French Government, the von Humboldt Stiftung and Georgetown
University. In 1973, he received the annual prize of the
Belgian Academy of Sciences and Humanities for a manuscript
later published as Negativity and Subjectivity.
His research interests include (1) Hegel; (2) Philosophy
of psychoanalysis with an emphasis on Lacan including
ethical problems with the treatment of mentally ill persons;
(3) ethics and economics including public policy implications;
(4) Contemporary Continental philosophy; (5) The concept
of person; and (6) Political and social philosophy including
distributive justice.
Wilfried Ver Eecke provides philosophical counseling
intended to help solve ethical problems and promote human
growth. He likes to help with problems of work dissatisfaction,
interpersonal relations and expressions of negative feelings,
such as, for instance, sibling rivalry.
He provides philosophical counseling on a sliding scale
fee. He can be reached by tel. at 202-363-1841 or by email
at vereeckw@georgetown.edu.
For more information on the research interests and publications
of Wilfried Ver Eecke check:
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