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| PHILOSOPHY |
For the Northern Rockies Psychoanalytic Institute
and Society, the discoveries of Sigmund Freud maintain a core
or primary position, while subsequent "psychoanalytic schools
of thought" each augment and in certain ways modify each other
as well as modifying Freudian thought, all contributing to a
complex navigation of what must remain human mystery. As well,
these burgeoning developments have not only extended treatment
efficacy with the classical neurotic patient but have also extended
psychoanalytic reach to the full range of emotional disorders.
Particular schools of thought and theorists who occupy the attention
of NRPI include but are not limited to - after Freud - Lacan,
Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Meltzer and British Object Relations
in general, Jung, Searles, Ogden, Bollas, A. Green, Spotnitz,
Meadow, R. Marshall, and Modern Psychoanalysis in general, Eigen,
as well as the contributions of intersubjectivity and
relationalism.
Embedded in psychoanalytic thought is the fundamental Kantian revelation that empiricism always is necessary to understanding and experience while it is also limited in its capacity to apprehend what, for
brevity's sake, we might call infinity. We are always obligated to validate what we can, while resisting the temptation to misrecognize new discoveries as final answers or as necessarily invalidating earlier conceptual schemata. Thus, NRPI attempts to build bridges with other disciplines in the aim of each occupying its place of expertise and capacity to inform the other.
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