Ralph Beaumont, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute and a faculty member at the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis in Portland. He is a graduate of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East. Among his special interests are psychoanalytic listening, the epistemology of the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic setting, topics in the relation of theory and practice, and psychoanalytic institutes and medical schools.  He is in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Portland.

Duane Dale, MD graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1975. Dr. Dale completed his psychiatric residency in 1978 at San Mateo County Mental Health in San Mateo, CA., and a fellowship in child psychiatry at OHSU in 1980. He graduated from the Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute in 1988, and was awarded a Training and Supervising Analyst appointment by the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2000. Dr. Dale is a founding member of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute, and served as the Institute Director from 2004 to 2008. Dr. Dale is Vice President of the OPC Board, is a faculty member at the Northwest Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at OHSU, and is in private practice in Portland, treating adults and children in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Barbara Drinka, LCSW is a 2005 graduate and board certified psychoanalyst of the Oregon and San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institutes. Her career began in Oregon public mental health and school systems, which included teaching and supervising graduate students at PSU. From 1981-84 she was awarded a post-graduate fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and Judge Baker Guidance Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Smith College School of Social Work, where she trained as a psychodynamic therapist in both in-patient and out-patient settings. On the faculty of Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute, she teaches candidates and is currently OPC’s Chair of Arts’ Community Outreach. In this capacity, Barbara has combined her life-long involvement in the arts and the creative process with the wisdom of psychoanalytic theory and technique. She has maintained a private psychotherapy practice in Portland since 1984, working with children, adolescents, adults, and couples, that now includes psychoanalysis.

Nancy Winters, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and a fourth-year candidate in the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute. She received her medical training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, her adult psychiatric training at Yale University, and child/adolescent psychiatric training at OHSU, where she directed the child psychiatry residency from 1998-2007. She has authored many articles in the psychiatric literature and has lectured locally and nationally on diverse topics. Among her special interests are eating disorders, the integration of neuroscience and psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic perspectives on the arts, and mental health systems of care. She practices psychoanalytic psychotherapy of adults and adolescents in Portland.