FACULTY & staff

Executive Director:  Joseph Scalia III, M.Ed.
Development Director:  Lynne S. Scalia, M.Ed.
Administrative Director:  Erna Smeets, M.S.

Faculty, available as training and/or supervising analysts:

Joseph Scalia III, M. Ed.
Bozeman, Montana USA
Executive Director

Joseph Scalia III is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Bozeman, Montana. He is a Psya.D. candidate, in Psychoanalysis and Culture, at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, and a member of Groupe interdisciplinaire freudien de recherche et d'intervention clinique et culturelle (Gifric).

Cindy Linse, D.E.A.
Billings, Montana, USA

Cindy Linse is an analyst in private practice in Billings Montana. She studied Lacanian psychoanalysis in Paris under Jacques-Alain Miller, and holds the Diplôme d’Études Approfundis (D.E.A.) in psychoanalysis from the Université de Paris VIII-St. Denis, which is a doctoral level professional diploma. Her work with early onset psychosis  at Courtil, the diagnostic center of the Institut Medico-Pédégogique Notre Dame de la Sagesse (a Lacanian institution in Belgium) is central to her training and understanding of Lacan. To get a better sense of who Cindy Linse is go to the Courtil Papers website and click on Cindie Linse at the bottom of the page, where you will find her introduction to the Courtil Papers outlining some of her experiences there.

Erna Smeets, M.S.
Bozeman, Montana
Administrative Director

Erna Smeets is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a graduate of the Northern Rockies Psychoanalytic Institute. She provides psychoanalysis to children and adults in Bozeman, Montana. As well, she initiated the involvement of the NRPI clinic in the Gallatin County public school system, where she continues to provide psychoanalytic treatment in a local public school. Ms. Smeets is a member of the California Circle of L'École Freudienne du Québec.

Charles Turk, MD
Chicago, Illinois USA
Visiting Faculty

Charles Turk is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in Chicago.  He graduated from Western Reserve University School of Medicine, took his residency at the Neuropsychiatric Institute - University of Illinois - Chicago and obtained psychoanalytic training at the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago. For three decades Dr. Turk has pursued an interest in combining psychoanalytic psychotherapy and medication in the treatment of psychotic and other severely ill people.  For twelve years he was medical director of a partial hospitalization program in a community mental health center, in suburban Chicago, for which he received an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in 1992. In 2004 he received a Local Educator award from the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education - where he makes frequent presentations on various aspects of his work with psychotic patients. For the past ten years he has continued his psychoanalytic studies at the Ecole Freudienne du Quebec, the school founded by GIFRIC (Interdiscipinary Freudian Group for Research and Clinical Intervention). He has collaborated in translating "Traiter la psychose" a work that describes the theory, function and results of  "388"- a psychoanalytic treatment program for psychotic young adults developed by GIRFIC.He is a founding member of the Chicago Circle of the Ecole Freudienne du Quebec.  This group is currently working to develop a treatment program for psychotic young adults in Chicago.  Last year he was invited to become a member of GIFRIC.