The Major Events of an Analysis
Summer 2008 Syllabus

Joseph Scalia III, PsyaD (Cand), NCPsyA

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

TBA

$100. There is no additional registration fee. Scholarships are available for those in need. Registration Deadline: June 9, 2008

Description:
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. 
 

Freud I
Fall Semester 2008 Syllabus

Joseph Scalia III, PsyaD (Cand), NCPsyA

Fifteen one and one half hour periods, starting the week of September 8, 2008.

Time to be arranged

NRPI offices, Baxter Hotel building, Bozeman

None

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

Description:
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.

Required readings:

On the psychical mechanisms of hysterical phenomena: a lecture (1893)

The neuro-psychoses of defense (1894)

Obsessions and phobias: their psychical mechanism and their aetiology (1895 [1894])

Sexuality in the aetiology of the neuroses (1898)

Screen Memories (1899)

The interpretation of dreams (1900) – all except Chapters I and V

Fragments of an analysis of a case of hysteria (The “Dora” case) (1905 [1901])

Three essays on the theory of sexuality (1905)

Recommended readings:

Studies on Hysteria (1893-1895)

The psychical mechanism of forgetfulness (1898)

On the grounds for detaching a particular syndrome from neurasthenia under the description “anxiety neurosis” (1895 [1894])

The interpretation of dreams, Chapters I and V
 

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Psychopathology in Psychoanalytic Thought
Fall Semester 2008 Syllabus

Barton Evans, Ph.D, & Cindy Linse, D.E.A

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

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

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

Description:
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.

Required readings:
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.
 

Introducing Bion: A day-long workshop
Fall Semester 2008 Syllabus

Jeffrey Eaton, M.A., FIPA

Saturday, October 25th

9 am -5 pm

TBA

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

Description:
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
 

 
NRPI News

In the area of community outreach, the Clinic of NRPI began its efforts within the public school systems in the fall of 2003, with middle and high school group work, supported with monthly parent and community meetings.  Following this, work began and is on-going in a K-5 elementary school with one candidate (now a graduate) providing weekly or biweekly sessions as needed.  Teachers were asked to propose students for treatment based not on behavioral issues impacting the teacher, but on emotional problems which teachers felt would have students run into serious problems once they reached the middle school level.  Services expanded to a high-poverty K-8 public school two years later, where currently one NRPI graduate and one candidate are providing services to 9 students on a weekly basis. The children at this school are selected in cooperation with teachers and counseling staff at the school. The model of this K-8 school is practicable due to a psychoanalytic sensibility and understanding within the administration.  In both on-going school programs, student-patients are seen during the course of the school day.  Parents as well are seen on a quarterly basis as their schedules permit, either at the school during the day, or at the clinician’s private office if necessary.  In both schools the avowed sentiment is that the treatment supersedes all academic and other school activities.

Currently, the Executive Committee is completing work on a new curriculum, which will be the only tutorial course of psychoanalytic study available in the United States. The new curriculum will be posted upon its completion.