So often, the general public and the professional disciplines providing treatment unwittingly expect psychological and psychiatric interventions to aid the patient in avoiding those very aspects of life which make us human, which are at once most trying and most promising.  What is the difference between treatment and care, between collusion with defense mechanisms and respectful guidance into one’s depths?

This course will examine how the Freudian School of Quebec has utilized Freudian and Lacanian principles in ways which honor the entire Freudian opus, including his most courageous and seminal explorations toward the end of his life. Click here for printable registration form

Instructor:
Joseph Scalia III, PsyaD (Cand), NCPsyA

Time:
To be arranged among participants; Four One-and-a-Half Hour Class Meetings

Tuition:
$100. There is no additional registration fee. Scholarships are available for those in need.

Registration Deadline:
June 9, 2008

The teaching of the work of Sigmund Freud in this series, taught by Joseph Scalia, takes the position that not only is Freud still necessary but that Freud’s discoveries are still at the heart of psychoanalysis.  This point is difficult to make clearly enough in a few words.  Some say that Freud’s teachings are best understood and practiced when they are “re-worked” through the lenses of later theoreticians.  This course takes the position that later works serve as addenda to Freud.  Sex and aggression, , the life and death drives, libido and destrudo, the dual drive theory – however one names them and their expressions, remain crucial.  Transformations of the libido, the defenses including repression and sublimation; transference and narcissistic neuroses; the illusory transference cure, free association and evenly suspended attention: vital concepts all.  Condensation, displacement, overdetermination, manifest and latent content, the dreamwork, drive derivatives all are still necessary knowledge.  The Oedipus and castration complexes, metapsychology including the topographical, structural, dynamic and economic models of the mind, primary and secondary process thinking, the repetition compulsion and negative therapeutic reaction are all vibrantly active in society and in the consulting room.

This course will ambitiously undertake a study of the major concepts Freud developed into 1909, stopping short of the “Little Hans” and “Rat Man” cases, which will be taken up at the start of Freud II.

Instructor:
Joseph Scalia III, PsyaD (Cand), NCPsyA

Dates:
Class will be 15 one and one half hour periods, starting the week of September 8, 2008

Time:
To be arranged among instructor and students

Place:
NRPI classroom

Tuition:
$275 -- Deadline for registration is August 18th, with tuition due the first day of class.

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Prerequisite: The student will have completed the four-course sequence in Freud, or permission from the faculty. 

Reading: Readings will be posted at a later date. Additionally, Lacanian case material will be distributed to registered students, as it is needed and becomes available.

Faculty:
Barton Evans, Ph.D, and Cindy Linse, D.E.A

Dates/Times:
Saturdays, September 27 and December 13, 9:30 – 4:00 pm both at NRPI as well as biweekly Monday evenings 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (dates to be arranged by participants) at NRPI and in Billings connected by phone.

Tuition:  $275 -- Deadline for registration is August 18th, with tuition due the first day of class.

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W. R. Bion's work has gained increasing attention in recent years. He has a reputation for being intimidating and difficult to comprehend.
This seminar will offer participants personal descriptions of some of Bion's major concepts. Through a series of short lectures with ample time for questions and discussion, Eaton hopes to show that Bion's work is practical, experiential, and clinically relevant.

To prepare for the seminar participants are asked to read: "The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion" by Neville Symington and Joan Symington.

Faculty:
Jeffrey Eaton, M.A., FIPA

Date:
Saturday, October 25th, 9-5

Tuition:
$150 -- Deadline for registration is August 18th, with tuition due on the day of class.

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