View our past events, conferences, workshops & groups below.

Past Training Opportunities, Workshops, Groups & Events

  • January 16, 2026

    9:00 am - 12:00 pm PT

    NPI Virtual Open House

      Join us for an engaging opportunity to learn more about NPI! Meet the Dean and President for an introduction to the programs offered, connect with current candidates, experience a live class in action, and participate in a Q&A session to explore all our program offerings. Virtual Open House: Friday, January 16, 2026 (9:00 am [...]

  • December 13, 2025

    10:00 am - 1:15 pm PT

    Clinical Perspectives on the Psychoanalytically-Informed Treatment of Substance Use Disorders

    Join us while we examine psychoanalytic perspectives on SUDs.

  • September 20, 2025

    9:00 am - 1:00 pm PT

    The Unfinished Copernican Revolution: An Introduction to the Work of Jean Laplanche

    An Introduction to the Work of Jean Laplanche

  • October 11, 2025

    9:00 am - 4:30 pm PT

    Bodies on the Edge: De/constructing the Ideal

    Join us for NPI's Fall Conference: Bodies on the Edge, De/constructing the Ideal

  • October 3, 2025 - October 31, 2025

    10:30 am - 12:00 pm PT

    Reading and Process Group

    Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

  • February 14, 2025 - March 21, 2025

    8:30 am - 10:00 am

    Theories of Mind: An Introduction to Working Psychoanalytically (Second Section)

    NPI has now opened a second section of the Theories of Mind Course! 

  • May 17, 2025

    10:00 am - 1:10 pm PT

    Saturday Salon: Understanding and Treating Eating Disorders Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

    Join Dr. Jennifer Hanlin as she explores the concept of eating disorders through a psychoanalytic lens.

  • May 10, 2025

    9:00 am - 1:20 pm PT

    Psychological Nudity in Couples: From Sexual Arousal to Sexual Sadism

    Join Professor Brett Kahr as he explores the true contents of sexual thoughts, fantasies, and unconscious wishes and desires.

  • May 3, 2025

    9:00 am - 4:30 pm PT

    Small Moments, Big Consequences: Race and Culture Collisions in Clinical Work

      NEW DATE: May 3, 2025 (times remain the same)  Course Description:  We are all imbedded in the sociocultural context in which we exist. The personal subjectivities of both therapist and patient are deeply affected by the experiences within their particular sociocultural context. Race and culture make their way into the clinical dyad in myriad [...]

  • March 15, 2025

    10:00 am - 1:10 pm PST

    The Dead Mother Complex Revisited: Exploring Vicissitudes and Spectral Dynamics in Contemporary Clinical Practice

    Join Dr. Afsaneh Alisobhani to explore Andre Green's The Dead Mother.