Northern Rockies Psychoanalytic Institute is the only psychoanalytic institute anywhere between Minneapolis and Seattle north of Denver. Founded in Fall of 2003 to disseminate psychoanalytic thinking in a region largely unfamiliar with it, NRPI finds itself in a unique location, internally and externally speaking, from which to be developing its own assimilation of a host of psychoanalytic schools of thought, as well as disciplines outside of psychoanalysis – an enterprise Freud always thought was quintessential to its evolution.

Starting with Freud, and moving through Klein, Winnicott, and Bion, paralleled by the thinking of Carl Jung, enriched by Lacan, Hyman Spotnitz and Phyllis Meadow, we also study the contributions of contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers such as André Green, Christopher Bollas, Michael Eigen, as well as the intersubjectivists and relationalists. The work being done in environmental ethics, and by philosopher Slavoj Žižek, and their interfaces with psychoanalysts Françoíse Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilličre, which intersect with that of some Native American medicine men, also lend themselves to NRPI’s theoretical receptivity here in the Northern Rockies, whose stunning beauty and sublimity continually remind us not to be too attached to the things of our creation, be they mental or physical.

NRPI does not identify itself as embracing a particular school of psychoanalytic thought, but sees itself as ethically bound to deeply study and teach as much of "the world" as we are able. To that end, we are fortunate enough to have a correspondence with some of the world’s leading psychoanalysts, some of whom will travel and already have traveled here to present to us.

Member - National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Member - International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education
Affiliate Member - American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis