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, M.Ed. 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. Scalia is the author of Intimate Violence: Attacks Upon Psychic Interiority, the editor of The Vitality of Objects: Exploring the Work of Christopher Bollas, and a Gradiva Award recipient.  He is a member of The Society of Modern Psychoanalysts and of the Chicago Circle of L'École Freudienne du Québec.

Jeffrey Eaton, M.A., FIPA
Seattle, Washington USA
Visiting Faculty

Jeffrey Eaton, M.A., is a graduate of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is in private practice providing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy to children and adults. He is a clinical faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine and teaches in several psychoanalytic training programs in Seattle. For over ten years he has helped to direct The Alliance Community Psychotherapy Clinic, a nonprofit project providing low fee psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the greater Seattle area. His essays have appeared in Psychoanalytic Review and The Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations. He is winner of the 10th Annual Frances Tustin Memorial Lecture for his paper "The Permanent Earthquake: Notes on the Treatment of a Young Boy". His chapter "From Nowhere to Now-here: Reflections on Buddhism and Psychoanalysis" appears in the book Into Mountain Streams: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism, edited by Paul Cooper.

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

Cindy Linse studied Lacanian psychoanalysis in Paris under Jacques-Alain Miller. She 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. She interned at Courtil, the diagnostic center of the Institut Medico-Pédégogique Notre Dame de la Sagesse, a Lacanian institution in Belgium similar to GIFRIC in Quebec. 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 that outlines some of her experiences there. Linse teaches English at Montana State University-Billings.

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 and psychotherapy 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 National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and of the San Francisco 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.

Faculty

Barton Evans, Ph.D.
Bozeman, Montana

Barton Evans, Ph.D. holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from The American University and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University School of Medicine. He holds the rank of Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences at George Washington University School fo Medicine.  Before moving to Bozeman, MT, Dr. Evans was a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry, where he taught comparative psychoanalytic theory and the interpersonal theory of Harry Stack Sullivan. He has experience in the treatment of severe personality disorders, personality assessment, forensic psychology, and clinical supervision. He has taught on the faculties of The American University, Georgetown University, University of North Carolina- Greensboro, and Montana State University. He has published in professional journals and book chapters. He has authored two books: Harry Stack Sullivan: Interpersonal Theory and Psychotherapy and forthcoming edited book (with Carl Gacono) The Handbook of Forensic Rorschach Psychology.

Paul Geltner, D.S.W
New York City, New York USA
Visiting Faculty

Paul Geltner, D.S.W. is the Director of Training at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center. He is also visiting faculty at the Colorado Center for Modern Psychoanalysis. He presents frequently on topics related to psychoanalytic theory and practice, on the role of psychoanalysis in the treatment of learning and attention disorders and mood disorders. He has published papers on dreams, countertransference, and evolutionary psychology. He is in private practice in New York City and in Brooklyn, specializing in mood and learning disorders, and in individual and group supervision.

Victor Stampley, M.S.W.
Missoula, Montana, USA

Victor Stampley, MSW, has been in private practice in Western Montana since 1984. He has studied for a decade each, at Colorado Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, and the Ridhwan School (a Boulder, CO program focusing psychoanalytic inquiry into spiritual matters). His areas of interest include analytic perspectives on popular and political cultures, and the application of analytic practice with a sense of place.

Paul Watsky, Ph.D., ABPP
San Francisco, California USA
Visiting Faculty

Paul Watsky, Ph.D., ABPP, holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, is a diplomate in psychoanalysis in psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He has experience in teaching and in clinical supervision, with emphasis on dream interpretation and issues concerning high performance in areas of intellectual and artistic creativity. Before becoming a psychologist he earned a doctorate in English, specializing in modern poetry, from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and taught for five years as an assistant professor at San Francisco State University. His poetry has been widely published in literary journals, and he has a book forthcoming from Bloody Twin Press.
 

 Training and supervising analysts 

Robert Marshall, Ph.D.
New York City, New York, USA

(Supervising)

Anthony Molino, Ph.D.
Vasto, Italy

(Training and Supervising)

Marianne Spitzform, Ph.D.
Missoula, Montana, USA

(Training)