2026

Tuesdays, August 4, 11, 18, 25 and September 1st (3:30 – 5:00 pm PT), Newport Psychoanalytic Institute presents: Consultation and Reading Group: Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind

Presented by: Deborah Farnsworth, Psy.D., LMFT, FIPA

7.5 CE Credits Available

Course Description: An intensive reading group on Fred Busch’s book, Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. Busch, an influential ego psychologist, writes complex psychoanalytic ideas in an unusually clear, usable way. This seminar cultivates a Busch-informed clinical stance and technique, with close attention to reverie, countertransference as an instrument, timing of interpretation, symbolization, working through trauma and splitting, and fostering analytic creativity and ethical presence. Ideal for clinicians and training, psychoanalytic candidates, advanced psychotherapy trainees, early-career therapists, and clinical graduate students.

For information and registration, please visit: https://www.npi.edu/events/creating-a-psychoanalytic-mind/

Saturday, September 19th, 10:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. PT, Newport Psychoanalytic Institute Saturday Salon presents: The Unconscious Effects of Postpartum Depression
Presented by Dawn Krikyan, RN, MSN, Psy.D., Ph.D.

In-Person: NPI Office
3 CE Units

This course defines postpartum depression (PPD) and explores it through the lens of psychoanalytic framework. The course will examine the role of ego regression in PPD, as well as specific triad of unconscious conflicts: dependency, anger, and maternal identification.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Describe PPD within the psychoanalytic framework
Explain and discuss the role of ego regression in PPD.
Identify and discuss three unconscious conflicts of PPD.

Read Dawn Krikyan’s bio, learn more, and register at NPI.EDU/CONTINUING-EDUCATION/

Saturdays from 9:00 am – 11:00 am PT: 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, and 10/10, Newport Psychoanalytic Institute presents: Psychoanalytic Supervision (Second Section), Presented by Dr. Holly Han & Dr. Cheryl Farole-Roman

Course Description:
Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This series of 4 classes introduces an approach to supervision that emphasizes developing supervisory alliance, parallel process, working with countertransference, and the supervisor-supervisee dynamic. Both didactic and experiential learning will be equally emphasized. This class is designed for those who supervise graduate students, interns, postdocs, and associates at multiple levels of training in academic, community, and private practice settings.

8 CE Credits Available

For additional information and to register please go to: https://www.npi.edu/events/psychoanalytic-supervision-2/

IFPE’s 36th Annual Conference, Subversion, October 1st - 3rd, 2026, Details @ https://www.ifpe.org/2026-conference

Saturday, October 3rd, 9:30-12 PM PST . Live via Zoom, The Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute presents: The Frightened Child - Danger, Safety, and the Risk of Closeness, Dr. Galit Atlas

In this exclusive Zoom webinar, international bestselling psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas dives deep into a chapter of her new book Come Closer (release date September 29), which explores the link between childhood wounds and adult love. This event is hosted in collaboration with CPI trainer and podcaster, Bryan Nixon, LPC.
General admission price: $185. Student pricing available with .edu email.
Price of admission includes a preorder copy of Dr. Atlas’s new book with signed bookplate, shipped to your preferred mailing address.

Register today: https://www.psychodynamicinstitute.com/buy/p/thefrightenedchild-galit-atlas-rpkrg