The Object Relations Institute is a New York State Chartered Educational Institute offering:

• Certificate programs in Object Relations Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
  • One Year Object Relations Day Program for Practicing Clinicians
  • Four Year Certificate Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
  • One Year Evening Program: An Introduction to Object Relations Theory & Clinical Application
  • One Year Supervisory Training Program for Psychoanalysts
• Group and individual supervision
• Annual conference & workshops.
• Exposure to the work of advanced clinicians
• Sliding fee scale therapy referral service for individuals, couples, adolescents and children

The Object Relations Institute offers certificate programs in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with a special curriculum featuring the teaching of the British and American Object Relations theorists and their clinical applications. The curriculum stresses preoedipal stage psychopathology contributing to character disorders, and modifications and elaborations in Freudian theory and technique made by object relations theorists. Object relations theorists have contributed to deepening our understanding of psychical structures and offer us techniques for dealing with clients who were thought to be unreachable.

This unique curriculum conducted in small group and class settings provides the candidate with the whole experiential dimension of learning related to the processing of  "objective countertransference" feelings, associations, and visceral experiences. These issues are seen as the key to understanding the split off and dissociated aspects of the psychotherapy or psychoanalytic patient, as the clinician sits in the room with him or her. This experiential study takes place in supervision groups, which highlight the group process as a medium for the learning personal development process. In-depth communication between candidates in each class is encouraged in relation to their internal processing of their clinical work.

The Object Relations Institute features an Annual Workshop Series and Conference, as well as Open House Meetings for prospective candidates. Our faculty and founders are always available to answer any of your questions. We encourage you to contact us at 212/268-8638 or by email at news@orinyc.org.