Informal Skype in Preparation for December Quarterly Seminars

In preparation for the December quarterly seminar meetings, we have scheduled monthly, informal, Skype “call-ins” so that participants can ask and answer questions, clarify text, and build dialectic with others. Our next informal session is this Friday, October 12, 6 – 7:30 p.m. Please email me if you intend to participate in this informal monthly session and I will send you username information.

Kevin Boileau, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor, Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society
31 Fort Missoula Road, Suite 4
Missoula, Montana 59804

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EPIS Press Accepting Book Manuscripts

The mission of EPIS Press, like its companion academic journal, Presencing EPIS, is to publish high-quality academic work dedicated to contemporary psychoanalysis and phenomenology. Our editorial board reviews manuscripts covering theoretical and clinical issues emerging from existential psychoanalysis, phenomenology, traditional psychoanalysis, cultural studies, Critical Theory, post-structuralism, deconstruction, and fictional literature. The review board will also entertain manuscripts that explore substantive and methodological issues in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, including ethical, political, professional, sociological, and historical ideas, especially as they relate to similar professional practice. Submitted book projects should address theory, method, clinical case studies, previous articles/books, and research. Book projects may be reviewed in the journal, Presencing EPIS. There are currently two additional imprints from EPIS Press, including the ZeroPoint Series, which publishes work on existential psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and cultural criticism. The other imprint includes literary work in the Heart-of-Fire Series.

Contact episeattle.com or Dr. Kevin Boileau @ 406-396-7912/kbradref@gmail.com for further information.

Kevin Boileau, Ph.D., J.D.

EPIS Press

31 Fort Missoula Road, Suite #4

Missoula, Montana USA

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EPIS Post-Graduate Internship Program

The Existential Psychoanalytic Institute and Society (EPIS) is a contemporary psychoanalytic society, research institute, and publishing house dedicated to the exploration and treatment of the human condition through a synthesis of existential analysis, classical psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and critical philosophy. Our purpose is to facilitate the continued expansion of existentialist-based therapy, analysis, and theory by providing an educational, academic, and clinical environment that focuses on their development.

EPIS Press publishes academic works dedicated to contemporary psychoanalysis and phenomenology. Our journal, Presencing EPIS™ is dedicated to exploring the dialectic between existential phenomenology and psychoanalysis, including questions regarding semiology, deconstruction, and Critical Theory.

The overall mission of EPIS Education is to integrate three rich discursive practices that inquire into the human condition but whose doors have been historically closed to one another until the inception of our institute. These discourses include a) the classical psychoanalytic tradition from Freud to the present; b) the existential psychoanalytic tradition from Heidegger and Binswanger to the present; and c) the phenomenological tradition from Brentano and Husserl to the present. We investigate all of these discourses through the methodologies of the critical philosophies of the French and of the Germans, including hermeneutics, deconstruction, Critical Theory, and semiology.

Our post-graduate internships are designed for M.A./Ph.D. recent graduates in psychology, counseling, social work, philosophy, or a related field who are interested in the theoretical and clinical aspects of psychoanalysis (both classical and existential), phenomenology, and critical philosophy (primarily of the European tradition, 18th-21st centuries) and should be of particular interest to practitioners who want intensive study in psychoanalysis in a program that includes publishing opportunities. Each internship involves participation in various activities of EPIS including assistance with seminars, research, the publishing house, and the online journal.

These internships are highly focused on individualized research and include world access, offering academics and clinicians opportunities for professional development and advancement. Please write or call for details.

Professor Kevin Boileau, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M.
Executive Director
31 Fort Missoula Rd.
Ste. 4
Missoula, MT 59804
406-396-7912 main
206-853-2655 cell
KevinBoileau@episeattle.com; nazarita66@gmail.com; bethmoga@gmail.com

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EPIS Announces New Research Program in Environmental Sustainability & Phenomenology

Kevin Boileau, Ph.D., announces a new research program at the Missoula, Montana, headquarters of the Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society (of North America) in environmental sustainability & phenomenology. Interested parties include philosophers, psychoanalysts, geo-scientists, wildlife biologists, interior designers, and others. One of our premises is that until we re-orient the very nature of the way we look at these issues, any behavioral changes will not be efficacious. For more information please contact Dr. Kevin Boileau, Ph.D.

Kevin Boileau
Executive Director & Professor
Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society
Missoula, Montana
406-396-7912

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EPIS Conference in Phenomenology & Psychoanalysis @ University of Montana

1st Annual EPIS Summer Conference in Missoula
August 1, 2, 3
2013
University Conference Center at the
University of Montana

The Existential Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is pleased to announce The 1st Annual EPIS Summer Conference, which will include 25 hours of instruction, including seminars in phenomenological process, existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, and cultural criticism. Participants will be able to present their own work, which will be published in the August issue, 2013, of Presencing EPIS, the academic journal of the Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society (of Seattle & Missoula). There will also be a welcome dinner, artwork, and a film.

The main campus of the University of Montana is located in some of the most beautiful terrain in North America. It has several libraries and other quiet areas for writing, research, and study. In the summer, it is usually 90 degrees and sunny with blue skies and occasional showers. EPIS will be coordinating inexpensive lodging and economical meals, and other optional activities. Over the next several months, we will be providing highly detailed information that will make your stay and your conference experience highly valuable, enjoyable, and interesting. It is our hope that with your participation, we can run the EPIS Summer Conference every year well into the future.

Conference registration fees are as follows:

Core Registration prior to 9/1/12: $250.00
Early Bird, prior to 1/1/13: $400.00
General Registration: $500.00
Registration after 6/15/13: $600.00
Individual Seminars: $175.00
Fulltime student discount: 25%
Volunteer discount: 10%
Discounted EPIS memberships will also be made available to new EPIS members at the conference.

For more information please contact Nazarita Goldhammer at nazarita66@gmail.com or at 206-335-6857.

All suggestions welcome.

EPIS Programs 2012-2013

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EPIS Conference in Phenomenology & Psychoanalysis at University of Montana

1st Annual EPIS Summer Conference in Missoula
August 1, 2, 3  in 2013
University Conference Center at the
University of Montana

The Existential Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is pleased to announce The 1st Annual EPIS Summer Conference, which will include 25 hours of instruction, including seminars in phenomenological process, existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, and cultural criticism. Participants will be able to present their own work, which will be published in the August issue, 2013, of Presencing EPIS, the academic journal of the Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society (of North America). There will also be a welcome dinner, artwork, and a film.

The main campus of the University of Montana is located in some of the most beautiful terrain in North America. It has several libraries and other quiet areas for writing, research, and study. In the summer, it is usually 90 degrees and sunny with blue skies and occasional showers. EPIS will be coordinating inexpensive lodging and economical meals, and other optional activities. Over the next several months, we will be providing highly detailed information that will make your stay and your conference experience highly valuable, enjoyable, and interesting. It is our hope that with your participation, we can run the EPIS Summer Conference every year well into the future.

Conference registration fees are as follows:

Core Registration prior to 9/1/12: $250.00
Early Bird, prior to 1/1/13: $400.00
General Registration: $500.00
Registration after 6/15/13: $600.00
Individual Seminars: $175.00
Fulltime student discount: 25%
Volunteer discount: 10%
Discounted EPIS memberships will also be made available to new EPIS members at the conference.

For more information please contact Nazarita Goldhammer at nazarita66@gmail.com or at 206-335-6857.

All suggestions welcome.

EPIS Programs 2012-2013

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Press Release: Kevin Boileau, Ph.D., to Publish Another Novel

In this intentionally oblique continuation of his earlier work, The Patient, Kevin Boileau pushes our conceptions of the self even further than before through the exercise of semantic irony and applied parrhesia. Through mnemo-technics, Boileau displaces our normal conceptions of temporality and theodicy, giving us another minimalist novella that strains our bourgeois sentiments and awakens us like black coffee. It is anti-Balzacian and yet very much not so. Couragio!

Look for The Blue Pearl at Amazon, which will be released in late September/early October. Author Kevin Boileau is currently working on two new novels, one on abjection and bureaucracy, the other a psychologically-oriented western about the causal processes nature effects on culture. He is also doing research for a theoretical treatise on subjectivity.

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Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society In Montana

EPIS, The Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society, with offices in Seattle and San Francisco, is pleased to announce the opening of its new headquarters in Missoula, Montana, USA.

The office address is as follows:
EPIS
31 Fort Missoula Road
Suite #3
Missoula, MT 59804

For more information, go to episeattle.com or episeducation.com.

206-853-2655  Dr. Kevin Boileau, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M.

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EPIS Art, Phenomenology, and Psychoanalysis Initiative

The Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society’s new initiative in Art, Phenomenology, and Psychoanalysis will focus on a psychoanalytic and phenomenological approach to the arts. Phenomenology provides us with a process to better understand how we sense and perceive the world. In examining our conscious relationships to things, people and events in this world, we must begin with the objects themselves. As such, we will be examining works of art as objects full of meaning. Art can help us to see and be attentive to this world by allowing us to enter into a dynamic relationship with it, fusing this experience with everyday life. We will also be learning several classical psychoanalytic approaches to meaning, which will provide a hermeneutic dialectic for discussion. Together, these will be a valuable way to deepen an understanding of the arts, especially for writers, directors, producers, actors, or artists. Through a combination of seminars, presentations, tours, and education programs, members and guests will develop a new breadth and depth of understanding and appreciation.

EPIS Art, Phenomenology, and Psychoanalysis will begin a new graduate level seminar December, 2012, which will explore the phenomenological, philosophical, and psychoanalytic literature pertaining to a variety of art forms. We will read traditional and contemporary texts on philosophy, aesthetics, phenomenology, psychotherapy, semiology, and art therapy. A supplemental bibliography of readings in the field will also be available. This seminar will also be the basis for a new EPIS 1-year certificate program in phenomenology and art. This program will be open to students in any discipline, including philosophy, sociology, history, art, law, or science/mathematics. Additional information will be available on our EPIS Education website (episeducation.com). Seminar attendance is available with an inexpensive EPIS membership. The certificate program is separate.

In addition, EPIS Art, Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis will be scheduling guest lectures at local art events. Partnerships and alliances between EPIS and various art organizations will allow participants to engage in both psychoanalytic interpretive and phenomenological descriptive practices, and to discuss artworks in context. Using the methodologies of phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and cultural criticism, we will integrate theory and practice in order to analyze the meaning of works of art at both individual and social levels.

Finally, the Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society’s 1st Annual EPIS Summer Conference, on August 1-3, 2013, will include 25 hours of instruction, including seminars in phenomenological process, existential phenomenology, psychoanalysis and philosophy, and cultural criticism. Participants will be able to present their own work, which will be published in the August issue, 2013, of Presencing EPIS, the academic journal of the Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society (of Seattle & Missoula). The 3-day summer conference will be held at the University Conference Center at the University of Montana, Missoula, for which discounted pre-registration is now available. An art show and film viewing with discussion, analysis, and phenomenological account are being planned.

For further information, please contact Beth Moga at episartphenpsy@gmail.com or at 206-293-5718; or contact Nazarita Goldhammer at nazaritagoldhammer@episeattle.com, nazarita66@gmail.com or at 206-335-6857.

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EPIS Seminar Schedule 2012-13

Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society (episeattle.com)
(Seattle & Missoula)
2012-2013 Seminar Curriculum
Learning centers in Seattle, Missoula, Portland, Walla Walla, and Santa Rosa

*Note: There may be small modifications in the reading
depending upon the needs of the EPIS community

Session 1: September 7 & 8 (Friday, 4-8 p.m. & Saturday, 10-2 p.m.)
Phenomenological Process:
Practising Existential Psychotherapy (Read all) & The Interpreted World, Spinelli (Read Chapters 1, 2, 6, and 7);
The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology, Giorgi (Read as you can over the school year);
Skills in Existential Counselling, Van Deurzen (Read Introduction, Chapters 1-3, the balance over the school year);
Introduction to Phenomenology, Sokolowski (This is good background; read in full as soon as possible.).

Existential Phenomenology:
Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty (Read Introduction);
Suggest Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology, Dillon;
Ontology and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty, ed. Galen Johnson and Michael Smith;
The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, Madison.

Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
Jacques-Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Ragland-Sullivan
(Read Chapter 1);
Suggest the following:
Ecrits, The First Complete Edition in English, Lacan;
The Lacanian Subject, Fink;
Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, ed. Danny Nobus;
Lacan, Lionel Bailly;
The Cambridge Companion to Lacan, Ed. Jean-Michel Rabate;

Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory (Read Introduction, Chapters 1-3);
Suggest reading primary sources for any of the critical theorists; also suggest reading any history of European philosophy as well as literature in postmodern theory.

Session 2: November 30 & December 1 (Friday, 4-8 p.m. & Saturday, 10-2 p.m.)
Phenomenological Process:
Same reading as Session 1. Finish all texts. Bring either one clinical case study
or one significant social encounter to share.

Existential Phenomenology:
Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty (Read Part I, The Body)

Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
Jacques-Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Ragland-Sullivan
(Read Chapter 2)

Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory (Read Chapters 8-10).

Session 3: March 1 & 2 (Friday, 4-8 p.m. & Saturday, 10-2 p.m.)
Phenomenological Process:
Same reading as Session 1 & 2.
Bring either one clinical case study or one significant social encounter to share.

Existential Phenomenology:
Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty (Read Part II, The World as Perceived)

Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
Jacques-Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Ragland-Sullivan
(Read Chapter 3)

Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory (Read chapters 11-13).

Session 4: May 31 & June 1 (Friday, 4-8 p.m. & Saturday, 10-2 p.m.)
Phenomenological Process:
Same reading as Session 1, 2, & 3.
Bring either one clinical case study or one significant social encounter to share.

Existential Phenomenology:
Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty (Read Part III, Being-for-Itself and Being-in-the World)

Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
Jacques-Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, Ragland-Sullivan

Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory (Read chapters/articles 1, 4, 6, 7, and 10). * note that we have moved from the Cambridge Companion to The Routledge for this session.

June 5, 2012 version
Dr. Kevin Boileau, Ph.D., J.D.
EPIS curriculum, copyright, 2012
Official

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