Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory & Technique of Psychotherapy
(Trimester 1 of the 1st Year of All Training Programs at the ORI.
This 10-week course can be taken as a separate non-credit course)
Date and Time: Thursdays, October 6 - December 15, 2011, 8:30-9:45pm
Professor: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt
Location: 115 East 9th Street; 12P, NYC, 10003
Class 1: Introduction of the course and its readings. Clinical role-play will be offered, to illustrate the Object Relations clinical technique.
Required reading: “The Matrix of the Mind,” by Thomas H. Ogden (Jason Aronson, 1986; available on-line).
Class 2: Discussion of Chapters 1 and 2, Matrix of the Mind.
Chapter 1: The Psychoanalytic Dialogue.
Chapter 2: Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.
Topics: The concept of phantasy; Psychological deep structure; The preconception and the realization; Freud’s conception of “Inheritance of Knowledge;” The symbolic form of early phantasy activity; The role of the environment.
Class 3: Discussion on Chapters 3 and 4.
Chapter 3: The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.
Topics: Splitting, Early stages of integration; Splitting as discontinuity of history.
Chapter 4: The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.
Topics: The Transition into the Depressive Position; The development of subjectivity; The management of danger in the depressive position; The creation of history; The manic defense; The achievement of ambivalence; The depressive position and the Oedipus complex.
Class 4: Discussion on Chapter 5 and a role-play experience in class.
Chapter 5: Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.
Topics: Acute regression to the paranoid-schizoid position; A foray into the depressive position; The creation of psychic reality; Oedipal-level transference and countertransference.
Class 5: Discussion on Chapter 6.
Chapter 6: Internal object Relations.
Topics: An Object Relations theory of internal objects; Transference, countertransference, and projective identification.
Class 6: Discussion on Chapter 7.
Chapter 7: The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.
Topics: The period of the subjective objects; the period of transitional phenomena, the period of whole-object relatedness.
Class 7: Discussion on Chapters 8 and 9.
Chapter 8: Potential Space.
Topics: Winnicott’s Language; The Phenomenon of Playing; Potential Space and the Dialectical Process; Psychopathology of Potential Space; The Symbol, the Symbolized, and Subjectivity; Empathy and Projective Identification.
Chapter 9: Dream Space and Analytic Space.
Topics: Dream Space; Analytic Space.
Class 8: Discussion about the article by Thomas Ogden, “Reading Susan Isaacs: Toward a radically revised theory of thinking,” in International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2011, Vol. 92, pp. 925-942.
Required reading: Article will be distributed by Dr. Kavaler-Adler.
Class 9: Discussion about the issues of symbolism and erotic transference.
Required reading: Articles by Dr. Kavaler-Adler (to be distributed by Dr. Kavaler-Adler):
· “Mourning and Erotic Transference” (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1992, Vol. 73:3).
· “Lesbian Homoerotic Transference in Dialectic With Developmental Mourning: On the Way to Symbolism from the Protosymbolic” (Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2003).
Suggested reading: “Case of Laura,” in Susan Kavaler-Adler’s book, “Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2003; winner of National Gradiva Award in 2004).
Class 10: Role-play demonstration intertwined with discussion of course readings.
Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and
Clinical Technique
- with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).
Projective Identification:
Object Relations View (part 2 of the mini-video series)
Time as an Object - Object Relations view (part 3
of mini-video series)
Self Sabotage - Object Relations view
(part 4 of mini-video series)
Fear of Success - Object
Relations View (part 5 of mini-video series) - NEW!
Mourning, Developmental
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