Connect with the NPI Psychoanalytic Community

NPI is a community of clinicians, scholars, and others interested in the many different traditional and contemporary applications of Freud’s original theories. NPI offers advanced training, seminars, discussion and study groups, and community outreach opportunities of both practical and theoretical nature for psychiatrists, psychologists, general practitioners, nurses, teachers, social workers, students, and other health care providers as well as the community.

We invite the community at large, including mental health clinicians, academicians, artists, and all others interested in learning, discussing, and applying psychoanalytic thought to become part of our organization.

Advance Psychoanalysis & Psychoanalytic Therapy

Advocate for the highest standards of psychoanalytic treatment, education, and scientific inquiry. Support a scientific/humanistic treatment approach that promotes individual freedom and growth. Foster public understanding and study of the human condition.

Member Benefits

  • Enhance Your Professional Education: Receive discounted registration fees to Scientific meetings, Community Programs, Conferences, and Salons. Receive access to Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP-Web).

  • Be Heard: Vote in NPI elections and participate in the varied committees available that foster cutting edge learning, community engagement, and social interaction. Become eligible to serve on or chair NPI committees and governance Board.

  • Increase Exposure: Be included in the NPI online clinician directory and referral service

  • Network with Colleagues: Meet with peers at NPI’s social, scientific, and community networking events. Become meaningfully involved in Institute leadership and gain a diversity of experience and perspectives.

Membership Levels

Full Membership

  • Must be a Graduate Psychoanalyst of an approved psychoanalytic training program, or its equivalent as determined by NPI.

  • Must meet the requirements as to character and ethical professional standards as established by this organization and the professional board under which the individual practices.

  • Must pay such dues and initiation fees as established by the Board of Directors.

Lifetime Member

  • Meets all the requirements of Full Membership.
  • Has paid the Life Membership dues as determined by the organization. This fee will be determined by the Board of Directors at the beginning of each fiscal year of the Corporation.

Honorary Member

  • Meets all the requirements of Full Membership.
  • From time to time the Board of Directors may nominate and designate any person who has made outstanding contributions to the field of psychoanalysis as an Honorary Member.

Emeritus Member

  • Meets all the requirements of Full Membership.
  • The Board of Directors has the privilege and authority to nominate and designate any Graduate Psychoanalyst of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute for Emeritus status.

Associate Member

  • Must be an NPI candidate in good standing.

Corresponding Member

  • Any person who is a graduate psychoanalyst and wishes affiliation and ongoing contact with the NCPS and its activities without the right to vote, hold office, or serve on the Board or committees shall be eligible for Corresponding Membership.
  • Being a Corresponding Member requires that the individual lives outside of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura Counties.

Friend of NPI

  • Any individual, professional clinician, lay community member, student, etc. who is psychoanalytically interested and wishes to affiliate with our organization may apply for membership.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist: A Membership for non-Psychoanalysts

  • If you are a not a Psychoanalyst, you can still enjoy the many benefits of being a NPI member.

Interested in Applying?

Please fill out an application and submit to [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!