NPI’s Saturday Salon Series
Join us for Saturday morning CEs from 10 AM-1 PM. We have an exciting lineup of instructors covering a wide range of topics. See below for this a list of upcoming events.
Join us for Saturday morning CEs from 10 AM-1 PM. We have an exciting lineup of instructors covering a wide range of topics. See below for this a list of upcoming events.
Existential issues such as loss can challenge the therapist to shift their traditional therapeutic or analytic stance with their clients. This is true whether it is the therapist who has suffered the loss or the client. This course will explore the various ways in which that may occur and how to work with it.
This course will provide students with psychoanalytic insights and ideas regarding substance abuse/addictions.
Narcissistic injury can occur when reality disturbs one’s sense of well-being and personal worth. In order to escape the resulting feelings of: neediness, pain, littleness, loneliness, humiliation and shame, one creates internal narcissistic objects as protection.
This seminar will consider developmental factors that contribute to the development of the false self and the accompanying sense of futility, and how to identify when the false self is active
Through moving film and video micro-analyses, we will think together
about the psychological birth of the infant in relation to the other, about what predispositions the human infant enters the world with and how these predispositions interact through body mind and world to impact the developing personality.