EPIS – Southern California
EPIS – Southern California
EPIS – The Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society – is a contemporary psychoanalytic society, research institute, and educational forum dedicated to the exploration and treatment of the human condition through a synthesis of existential analysis, traditional psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and critical theory.
Our membership is national and international, with easily-accessible, web-based seminars, an annual summer conference, and opportunities to publish in our peer-reviewed journal and at our professional press (EPIS Press). Although our research institute is based in Missoula, Montana, we are expanding our physical presence into Southern California. As such, we welcome new members, whether you are a professional, professor, or student. We also have an educational program in existential psychoanalysis you can review at episeducation.com.
New Southern California members will be able to meet at our offices in Solana Beach, CA, with additional opportunities for conference space in San Diego County, Orange County, and Los Angeles County. We also offer convenient access to through web-conferencing at no additional cost.
We started EPIS in 2001-2 to provide innovative, forward-thinking psychoanalytic seminars, research, and discussion that would be integrated with discourses in phenomenology, critical theory, and philosophy – a much needed additional in our view. From the moment of that inception, we have continued to learn from this expanded and deepened view of psychoanalysis, and the human condition.
For more information, please contact:
Prof./Dr. Kevin Boileau, PhD
Dean of Faculty, EPIS Education
Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society
415.830.0065
Here is a sample from our 2017 regular seminar curriculum:
Session 1:
September 1 & 2 (2017)
Applied & Clinical Phenomenology/Existential Analysis:
(Friday, 4-6 p.m. MT)
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 our 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.).
Bring one clinical case or social encounter that you are willing to share within regular guidelines of confidentiality. We will apply the phenomenological method, thereby showing the dialectical tension with the natural attitude.
Transcendental/Existential Phenomenology:
(Friday, 6-8 p.m. MT)
The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem. Jan Patocka. Translated by Erika Abrams. Edited by Ivan Chvatik, Edited by Lubica Ucnik. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.
Recommended (Primary)
An Introduction to Husserl’s Phenomenology. Jan Patocka. Translated by Erazim Kohák. Edited by James Dodd. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1996.
Body, Community, Language, World. Jan Patocka. Translated by Erazim Kohak. Edited by James Dodd. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1999.
Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History. Jan Patocka. Translated by Erazim Kohák. Edited by James Dodd. Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1996.
Recommended (Secondary)
Edward F. Findlay, Caring for the soul in a postmodern age: politics and phenomenology in the thought of Jan Pato?ka
Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death
Erazim Kohak, Jan Patocka: Philosophy and Selected Writings
Psychoanalysis & Philosophy:
(Saturday, 10-noon p.m., MT)
Ecrits, The First Complete Edition in English, Lacan, Articles 19 & 20.
Critical Theory, Cultural Criticism & Psychoanalysis:
(Saturday, noon-2 p.m. MT)
Being and Event, Volume 2 (Logics of Worlds), Book II, Greater Logic 1, Alain Badiou
For more information, please contact:
Prof./Dr. Kevin Boileau, PhD
Dean of Faculty, EPIS Education
Existential Psychoanalytic Institute & Society
415.830.0065