APW Conferences

APW holds an annual conference that attracts Lacanian clinicians from around the United States and the world. 



APW’s previous conferences


  • Feminine Sexuality (1999), Boston, MA
  • On Reading (2000), Atlanta, GA
  • On Obsessional Neurosis (2001), Albany, NY
  • The Symptom (2002), Buffalo, NY
  • Fundamental Fantasies: Écrits and After (2003), Pittsburgh, PA
  • Working with the Symptom (2004), Omaha, NE
  • On Addiction (2006), Carrollton, GA
  • On Love (2008), Philadelphia, PA
  • The Ends of Analysis (2010), San Francisco, CA
  • On Madness (2012), St. Louis, MO
  • On the Imaginary (2013), Boston, MA
  • On Desire (2014), Toronto, ON
  • On Transference (2015), Ghent, Belgium
  • On Love (2016), Vancouver, BC
  • On Fantasy (2017), Toronto, ON
  • Psychoanalysis: Science and Truth (2018), Boston, MA
  • On the Drive (2019), Dublin, Ireland