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"Psychoanalysis still represents the most coherent and intellectually satisfying view of the mind."
--Eric Kandel, neuroscientist Nobel Laureate

Summer, Fall NRPI Courses and Seminar Announced
Two courses and a day-long workshop this fall have been announced by the Northern Rockies Psychoanalytic Institute. They include "Psychopathology in Psychoanalytic Thought," which explores Freud's, Lacan's, and Sullivan's concepts of psychopathology, "Freud I," part of a series on the work of Sigmund Freud, and "Introducing W. R. Bion: A Day-Long Workshop." This summer NRPI offers "The Major Events of an Analysis."
Please click on the course titles for more details below.
Summer Course: The Major Events of an Analysis
This short course will use Willy Apollon’s “The Untreatable” as its single reading, to be read very closely, and as a point of discussion for the stages of events in a psychoanalytic treatment, what it is that an analysis accomplishes, and the means with which it makes those accomplishments.

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

September 8: Freud I
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.

Click here for printable registration form

 

September 27: Psychopathology in Psychoanalytic Thought
Beginning with Freud's groundbreaking and enduring work on hysteria, psychoanalysis has provided central conceptualizations of psychopathology. As opposed to diagnostic approach found in the DSM IV, central to psychoanalysis is the deeply human position that psychopathology arises from mental processes common to everyone, not simply biological disorder. Using a case study approach, this course will explore Freud's, Lacan's, and Sullivan's concepts of psychopathology, as well as psychoanalytic discoveries regarding, among others, schizoid and obsessional phenomena, borderline and narcissistic personality disorders, and schizophrenia.  The course will feature two faculty from different theoretical orientations (Cindy Linse and Barton Evans) who will discuss each case from their particular perspective as a way to spur in-depth thinking about psychopathology.

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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October 25: Introducing Bion:  A day-long Seminar 
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.

 

Click here for printable registration form

 

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"Without a bent for melancholia there is no psyche,
only a transition to action or play." 
-- Julia Kristeva, 1989

"Symbolic life is partly concerned with what its own activity feels like and discovering what it can do."  -- Michael Eigen, 2004
 

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