Nate Koser

Nate Koser earned his BS in psychology and MA in counseling from Eastern Mennonite University. He earned a PhD in psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco, California. Nate is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in continual formation. He works closely with Lutecium: The Psychoanalytic Foundation (formerly Lutecium: Lacanian non-school of Psychoanalysis), the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW), and Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. Nate provides psychoanalysis and psychotherapy at Aporia Counseling & Psychotherapy, PLLC in Harrisonburg, VA. A wide foundation in psychoanalysis, psychology, and the humanities influences his work from a psychoanalytic approach. Nate’s research interests include: Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis, critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, philosophy of mind, psychology, trauma, ethics, and attempting to forward a psychoanalytic articulation of human-to-human relationships.

Lacanian/Freudian Psychoanalysis, Continual Formation
Lutecium: The Psychoanalytic Foundation, San Francisco, CA
The Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW)
Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, August 2013
Saybrook University: School of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, San Francisco, CA

Master of Arts in Counseling, April 2009
Eastern Mennonite University: Masters of Arts in Counseling, Harrisonburg, VA

Bachelor of Science in Psychology, April 2007
Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA

Koser, N. (in press). An aporia of the psychoanalytic discourse from a Lacanian perspective with special reference to the theory of intersubjectivity.

Koser, N. (2013). Impossible. Eastern Mennonite University, Master of Arts in Counseling Newsletter.

Koser, N. (2012). Brief reflections on the psychoanalytic discourse. Eastern Mennonite University, Master of Arts in Counseling Newsletter.

Koser, N. (2012). Reflections on the body. Eastern Mennonite University, Master of Arts in Counseling Newsletter.

Koser, N. (2012). On the newsense of nonsense. Eastern Mennonite University, Master of Arts in Counseling Newsletter.

Koser, N. (2011). Ethics (re)visited: Or, on failure and strangeness. Eastern Mennonite University, Master of Arts in Counseling Newsletter.

Koser, N. (2011). On ethics: Opening the question. Eastern Mennonite University, Master of Arts in Counseling Newsletter.

Koser, N. (2010). The tragic and the transcendent. Society for Humanistic Psychology Newsletter.

Koser, N. (2010). An exploratory presence. The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 50(3), 297-311. doi: 10.1177/0022167809349750

Presenter, “To a Void with Love,” The Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW) 11th Annual Conference: On the Imaginary, Boston, MA, October 12, 2013

Presenter, Didactic Seminar on Lacan’s Seminar VIII: The Transference, Lutecium: The Psychoanalytic Foundation, San Francisco, CA, June 2013

Presenter, Clinical Case Conference, Lutecium: The Psychoanalytic Foundation, Spring Immersion, San Francisco, CA, March 23, 2012

Co-presenter, Ethics from the Inside Out, EMU Continuing Education Series, Harrisonburg, VA, April 15, 2011

Provide psychotherapeutic/psychoanalytic treatment to underserved populations pro bono at Aporia Counseling & Psychotherapy, PLLC.

Lead free reading groups open to the wider community.

Lead consultation and supervision groups for counselors, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals in the community.

Recipient of the 2012 Rollo May Scholarship from Saybrook University, San Francisco, CA

Licensed Professional Counselor (VA) #0701005150

American Counseling Association (ACA) 2007 – present
Lutecium: The Psychoanalytic Foundation 2010 – present
The Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW) 2010 – present
Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis 2013 – present

Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW), Annual Conference, On the Imaginary, October 2013

Lutecium: The Psychoanalytic Foundation, Spring/Summer Immersion, May 2013

Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW), Annual Conference, On Madness, October 2012

Lutecium: The Psychoanalytic Foundation, Spring Immersion, March 2012

Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups (APW), Study Weekend, Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une-bévue, a s’aile à mourre, November 2011

Paris-USA Lacan Seminar, Lacan’s Legacy, October 2011
The Ecole de Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ Lacanien, The 5th International

English-Speaking Seminar, The Proper Place of Affects in Psychoanalysis: Freud to Lacan, April 2011