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• Consult Group

  • Start
    10/07/2025
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  • End
    06/16/2026
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  • Schedule
    35 sessions
  • Location
    Labour Temple

  
  

  NPSI Consultation Group: For the Curious Analytic Mind

  ENROLLMENT FOR THE 2025/26 ACADEMIC YEAR IS NOW CLOSED.

  Course Description

  This in-person course is designed for licensed mental health professionals interested in psychoanalytic theory and its application to clinical practice. The Consultation Group will consist of five to six members, maintaining a small size to promote an intimate learning experience. The group will focus on clinical work presented by participants and led by rotating NPSI analysts.

  Consultation Experience

   In this nine-month program of weekly case consultation, participants will have the experience of following clinical material, to deepen their understanding of how analytic concepts such as transference, countertransference, unconscious phantasy, anxieties and defenses are manifested during a session. Our analyst-facilitators will help the group members become increasingly adept at psychoanalytic listening, using reverie, thinking psychoanalytically and making psychoanalytically-informed interventions. For a more immersive experience, this course can be taken along with the Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis course. 

  Collegial Camaraderie

  The course opens the door to connecting with like-minded colleagues and analyst mentors. By joining the NPSI community, participants are welcomed into myriad opportunities for ongoing personal and professional growth.

  General Information

  Course: Weekly in person classes beginning Tuesday, October 7, 2025, through June 16, 2026 (9 months).  *Specific dates listed to the left.

  Time: Tuesdays, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Pacific Time.

  Location: NPSI offices - 2800 1st Ave, Seattle WA 98121

  Group Facilitators: NPSI Psychoanalysts

  
  

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• Fundamentals II

  • Start
    10/09/2025
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  • End
    06/25/2026
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  • Schedule
    34 sessions

  FUNDAMENTALS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS II

  (application window is currently closed)

  One way that Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute manifests the mission to “offer outstanding psychoanalytic training to mental health professionals” is by offering a Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis certificate course designed for clinicians who seek to deepen their understanding of the psychoanalytic knowledge base, enhance their knowledge and skills for clinical practice, and cultivate a network of like-minded colleagues. The program marries theory and practice in two (academic) year-long small group seminars, which accrue to a satisfying whole. Each year can be taken separately or sequentially. 

  Upon completion of the course, students will receive a certificate of attendance and 1.5 continuing education credits for each session attended. Perfect attendance for the 2025-26 academic year will result in 51 Continuing Education Hours (NASW).

  Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis is:

  Theoretical

  In a nine-month program of weekly classes, we study major works by the foundational thinkers in the British object relations line. Year One is primarily Freud, while Year Two continues Freud’s ideas through the works of Klein, Winnicott, and Bion, considering links and divergences in this line of thought evolution. By completing the course, learners will have a sense of how psychoanalytic thinking has evolved, from Freud to the current day.

  Clinical

  Each monthly unit will be augmented by a clinical case presentation, demonstrating the application of theory in working with patients. In Fundamentals courses, learners will become increasingly adept at discovering unconscious processes in clinical work and developing strategies for intervention.

  Fun

  Following an innovative design, each monthly unit will be taught by a different instructor, each of whom is an experienced psychoanalytically oriented clinician. The group will stay together, and the faculty will rotate, which promotes the formation of a strong learning group.

  GENERAL INFORMATION:

  Course Length: Weekly classes beginning Thursday, October 9, 2025, through June 25, 2026 (9 months)

  Time: Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30 pm

  
  

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• NPSI TA Study Group

  • Start
    10/14/2025
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  • End
    06/09/2026
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  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    Labour Temple

  
  

  *Please register by October 3, 2025*

  NPSI would like to announce the inauguration of two Study Groups: a Recent Grad Study Group, for those a couple to a few years post grad, and for those further along or interested in soon applying for TA status, a TA Study Group, each group emphasizing a space for learning from one’s experience with the other participants, including the facilitators and from oneself. The format will be presentation of clinical cases by participants, in rotation. 

  This ‘learning from experience’ is one overarching goal.  As well, for those ultimately interested in applying to become an NPSI TA, this TA Study Group may be considered as partial preparation for taking the clinical evaluation portion of that application.

   

  The Study Groups will be open-ended in terms of participation, but for continuity, participants are asked to give at least a 6-month commitment.
  

   

  Minimum number per study group: 3

  Maximum number per study group:  6

  
  

  Facilitators

  For Recent Grad Study Group: 

  Marianne Robinson, PhD, MSW, BCPsa

  
  

  For TA Study Group: 

  Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA

  & Dana Blue, LICSW, BCPsa, FIPA

  
  

  Meeting Dates/Times

  Both Study Groups will meet monthly on the

  second Tuesday of the month

  beginning October 14, 2025

  6:30PM - 8:00PM

  
  

  Location

  For Recent Grad Study Group:  via Zoom

  For TA Study Group:  in person, Labour Temple, Seattle, WA

  
  

  Cost

  Recent Grad Study Group:  $35 per session

  TA Study Group:  $50 per session

  (to be billed after each monthly session)

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• NPSI New Grads Study Group

  • Start
    10/14/2025
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  • End
    06/09/2026
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  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    via Zoom

  
  

  *Please register by October 3, 2025*

  NPSI would like to announce the inauguration of two Study Groups: a Recent Grad Study Group, for those a couple to a few years post grad, and for those further along or interested in soon applying for TA status, a TA Study Group, each group emphasizing a space for learning from one’s experience with the other participants, including the facilitators and from oneself. The format will be presentation of clinical cases by participants, in rotation. 

  This ‘learning from experience’ is one overarching goal.  As well, for those ultimately interested in applying to become an NPSI TA, this TA Study Group may be considered as partial preparation for taking the clinical evaluation portion of that application.

   

  The Study Groups will be open-ended in terms of participation, but for continuity, participants are asked to give at least a 6-month commitment.
  

   

  Minimum number per study group: 3

  Maximum number per study group:  6

  
  

  Facilitators

  For Recent Grad Study Group: 

  Marianne Robinson, PhD, MSW, BCPsa

  
  

  For TA Study Group: 

  Maxine Anderson, MD, FIPA

  & Dana Blue, LICSW, BCPsa, FIPA

  
  

  Meeting Dates/Times

  Both Study Groups will meet monthly on the

  second Tuesday of the month

  beginning October 14, 2025

  6:30PM - 8:00PM

  
  

  Location

  For Recent Grad Study Group:  via Zoom

  For TA Study Group:  in person, Labour Temple, Seattle, WA

  
  

  Cost

  Recent Grad Study Group:  $35 per session

  TA Study Group:  $50 per session

  (to be billed after each monthly session)

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• Psychoanalytic Training Winter Quarter

  • Start
    12/05/2025
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  • End
    03/06/2026
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  • Schedule
    12 sessions
  • Location
    Labour Temple

  Winter Quarter begins December 5, 2025!

  ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2025-26

  
  FALL QUARTER 2025:

  September 5, 12 19, 26, October 3, 10, 24, 31, November 7, 14, 21 (Thanksgiving November 28)

  *9/6 Saturday Seminar - 2nd and 4th year cohorts
  *10/17 pre-EBOR class taught by plenary - all candidates
   
  WINTER QUARTER 25/26:

  December 5, 12, 19, January 9, 16, 23, 30, February 6, 13, 20, 27, March 6 (Winter break: December 26 and January 2)

  *12/6 Saturday Seminar - 2nd and 4th year cohorts
   
  SPRING QUARTER 2026:  

  March 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 29, June 5, 12 (Spring break March 13, Memorial Day weekend break May 22)

  *3/21 Saturday Seminar - 2nd and 4th year cohorts

  
  

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• NPSI January Scientific Meeting

  • When
    01/24/2026
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    9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
  • Location
    via Zoom

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  “The Present in the Past and the Past in the Present:

  Édouard Manet: The Lure of Past and the Gaze"

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, PhD, FIPA

  
  

  Jeanne Wolff Bernstein will present her psychoanalytic pictorial analysis of the works of French painter Édouard Manet from three viewpoints—personal, historical, and identificatory. Illustrated with several of Manet’s paintings, she develops these perspectives as they appear in her recent book, The Lure of the Gaze and the Past, a Psychoanalytical Study of the Works of Édouard Manet (2025). Linking the limited biographical data available about Manet with his painterly representations, Wolff Bernstein offers unexpected inferences about his life. She interprets Manet’s numerous references to Old Masters’ paintings as evocations of his painterly—rather than personal—past and uses Freud’s concept of Nachträglichkeit to uncover the veiled relationships between Manet’s contemporary painted figures and his citations of past imagery.

  
  

  Wolff Bernstein will also show how Manet expressed a pointed critique of his political and social milieu by placing the present in the past, and the past in the present. In doing so he reinterpreted traditional works in light of contemporary social and artistic upheavals, using the past both as a cover and a powerful explanatory force. Manet fundamentally transformed the relationship among the spectator, the painting, and the object depicted in the painting. To further understand how the spectator is caught in the gaze of the depicted object, Wolff Bernstein draws on Freud’s (1905) essay, “Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious,” which analyzes the triadic relationship within which the joke-teller invites his listener to complete the joke through a third person. In a similar manner, Manet engages the viewer’s unconscious processes to 'complete' the scenes on his canvases. Unlike many of his contemporaries and artistic predecessors, who either invited the viewer into the painted scene or held them at a distance, Manet subverts the viewer’s desire for identification. He facilitates the spectator's awareness of their own voyeuristic processes through his intricate play of simultaneously luring them into and out of his painted scenes.

  
  

  Learning Objectives

  After attending this scientific meeting, participants will be able:

  • To deepen their understanding of different psychoanalytic approaches to viewing an artwork.

  • To explore the dynamics of Nachträglichkeit when applied to the arts.

  • To be familiar with Freud’s (1905) “Jokes and their Relations to the Unconscious” and its application to the arts.

  About the Presenter

  Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, PhD, FIPA is a psychoanalyst living and working in Vienna, Austria. She is a member and training analyst at the The Wiener Arbeitskreis für Psychoanalyse (WAP) where she is also a member and Vice- President of the Board. She heads the Scientific Advisory Council of the Vienna Sigmund Freud Museum where she was the Fulbright Freud Visiting Scholar in Psychoanalysis in 2008. Prior to moving to Vienna, Wolff Bernstein was a past president and supervising and personal analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She is on the faculty at PINC, at the NYU Postdoctoral Program, New York and teaches at WAP.
  
  She has published numerous articles on Lacan and the interfaces between psychoanalysis, the visual arts and film. A selection of her most recent publications includes: the chapter on Jacques Lacan in The Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2012/2024); “Living between two languages: A Bi-Focal Perspective,” in: Immigration in Psychoanalysis (2016); her book, The Lure of the Gaze and the Past, A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Édouard Manet’s Work, published in January 2025, Alexander Verlag; co-editor with Daniela Finzi Of Thoughts for the Time on Groups and Masses, A Sigmund Freud Museum Symposium (2025); and co-editor with Helga Klug and Daniella Kammerer of Neu Denken und Handeln, Der Einfluss gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche auf die Psychoanalyse: (The Influence of Societal Upheavals upon Psychoanalysis) (2025) Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen.

  
  

  About the Moderator

  Nancy C. Winters, MD, FIPA, is a psychoanalyst living and working in Portland, Oregon. She is a training and supervising analyst at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute and the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and a Clinical Professor at the Oregon Health & Science University, where she was Professor and Residency Director in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry. She is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Co-editor of “Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond” (2022), recent publications include “Autoimmunity and its Expression in the Analytic Situation: Contemporary Reflections on Our Inherent Self-Destructiveness” (IJP, 2022), “A Home to the Lie: The Contemporary (Per)Version of Truth (AJP, 2023),” and “Transformations in O Online: Group Process in the Virtual Realm” (PQ, 2024). Recent presented papers include “The Liar and the Truth-Teller: An Analytic Dialogue (Lisbon, 2025), and “Schubert’s Final Piano Sonata in B Flat Major as a Metaphor for Analytic Termination: (Seattle, 2025).

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• NPSI Training and Education Open House Events

  • Start
    01/24/2026
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  • End
    02/28/2026
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Hybrid Event: In person at The Klee and via Zoom

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  DEEPEN YOUR CLINICAL WORK

  WITH EDUCATION AT NPSI

  
  

  We at Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute are delighted to announce our upcoming opportunities for community psychotherapists to learn more about the processes and rewards of engaging in the educational programs at our institute. 

  We are currently offering two paths for deepening your learning and work. In Fall 2026, we will again offer the first year in our Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis course. We are also accepting applications to join a new cohort to enter Psychoanalytic Training in Fall 2026.

  To learn more about these programs and our community, we invite you to the following events, to be held at The Klee Condominium Community Room, 2717 Western Avenue.

  Saturday morning, January 24th:  11:00 am to 12:30 pm

  "Seeing the Growth in Our Listening Ears"

  
  

  A panel presentation to be followed by Q & A, this event will allow us to hear several current candidates in training discuss their personal experience of development in their ability to listen for unconscious communication.  This will be a hybrid event, with Zoom and in-person attendance.

  
  

  Saturday morning, February 28th:  11:00 am to 12:30 pm

  
  

  Janelle Eckhardt, PhD, MIPA will offer thoughts on the differences and similarities between psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. We will include discussion time with event participants. This will be a hybrid event, with Zoom and in-person attendance.

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  Information about our training programs are available at our website: https://npsi.us.com/Training

  Links to the Application forms for both educational programs are available online.

  It is the policy of the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute to select qualified individuals without discrimination on the grounds of political affiliation, religion, marital status, color, gender, national origin, non-disqualifying physical handicap, sexual orientation, or age. In addition, NPSI has a zero tolerance policy for sexual harassment. However, it is understood that applicants accepted to NPSI will be fluent in the English language, written and spoken. Attempts will be made to accommodate the needs of students with hearing, visual, and/or physical challenges.

  Questions? Need help? The Admissions committee and the Fundamentals committees are available to assist you.

  
  

  THE ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE:

  Margaret Bergmann-Ness, MA, LICSW, FIPA

  NPSI Chair of Admissions

  (206) 551-4824

  margaret@mbntherapy.com

  
  

  Carolyn Carlson, MA, LMHC

  (206) 679-6776

  carolyn.carlson@me.com

  
  

  
  

  Janelle Eckhardt, PhD, MIPA

  (206) 637-2260

  janellereckhardt@gmail.com

  
  

  Felipe Matamala, PhD, MIPA

  (206) 604 - 5106

  felipematamalas@icloud.com

  
  

  
  

  THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS COMMITTEE:

  
  

  Becky McGuire, MS, LMHC, MIPA

  NPSI CHair-Elect of Fundamentals Program

  (425) 501-2303

  bdmcjackson@gmail.com

  
  

  
  

  David Parnes, LICSW, FIPA

  NPSI Chair of Fundamentals Program

  (206) 290-9221

  davidleeparnes@gmail.com

  
  

  
  

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• NPSI February Scientific Meeting

  • When
    02/18/2026
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom

  SAVE THE DATE

  NPSI February Scientific Meeting

  
  

  “Realizations Prevented From Emerging:

  Concretization in the Analytic Field”

  
  

  Presenter: Caron Harrang

  Moderator:  Drew Tillotson

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• NPSI March Scientific Meeting

  • When
    03/18/2026
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom

  SAVE THE DATE

  NPSI March Scientific Meeting

  
  

  “On Terminating, Ending, and Not Ending”

  
  

  Presenter: Stephen Purcell

  Moderator:  Nancy Winters

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• Psychoanalytic Training Spring Quarter

  • Start
    03/20/2026
  •  
  • End
    06/12/2026
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  • Schedule
    12 sessions
  • Location
    Labour Temple

  Spring Quarter begins March 20, 2025!

  ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2025-26

  
  FALL QUARTER 2025:

  September 5, 12 19, 26, October 3, 10, 24, 31, November 7, 14, 21 (Thanksgiving November 28)

  *9/6 Saturday Seminar - 2nd and 4th year cohorts
  *10/17 pre-EBOR class taught by plenary - all candidates
   
  WINTER QUARTER 25/26:

  December 5, 12, 19, January 9, 16, 23, 30, February 6, 13, 20, 27, March 6 (Winter break: December 26 and January 2)

  *12/6 Saturday Seminar - 2nd and 4th year cohorts
   
  SPRING QUARTER 2026:  

  March 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 29, June 5, 12 (Spring break March 13, Memorial Day weekend break May 22)

  *3/21 Saturday Seminar - 2nd and 4th year cohorts

  
  

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• NPSI Candidate Saturday Seminar - 2nd and 4th year

  • When
    03/21/2026
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Labour Temple

  
  

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• Premonition, Hope, and Dread in the Analytic Hour

  • When
    05/02/2026
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  SAVE THE DATE

  "Premonition, Hope, and Dread in the Analytic Hour"

  Presenter:  Judy K. Eekhoff

  Moderator:  Caron Harrang

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• NPSI May Scientific Meeting

  • When
    05/20/2026
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom

  SAVE THE DATE

  NPSI May Scientific Meeting

  
  

  "Secrets and Psychotherapy: 

  Stories that Inform Clinical Work"

  
  

  Presenter: Kathryn Zerbe

  Moderator:  Nancy Winters

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• NPSI June Scientific Meeting

  • When
    06/17/2026
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom

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  NPSI June Scientific Meeting

  
  

  "A Peculiar People: 

  Mormonism, Drag Performance and Erotic Non-Belonging"

  
  

  Presenter: Danny Gellersen

  Moderator:  Caron Harrang

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• Psychoanalytic Training Application Fee

  • When
    09/04/2026
  • Location
    Application Fee

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• NPSI September Scientific Meeting

  • When
    09/16/2026
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    via Zoom

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  NPSI September Scientific Meeting

  
  

  [Title TBD]

  
  

  Presenter: Jeffrey Eaton

  Moderator:  Caron Harrang

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• "Ethical Uses of Countertransference Love: The Analyst's Embodied Presence"

  • When
    10/24/2026
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    TBD

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  "Ethical Uses of Countertransference Love:

  The Analyst's Embodied Presence"

  Presenter:  Andrea Celenza

  Moderator:  Drew Tillotson

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