Certificate Courses

Individual courses & seminars (new in 2011)

Inquire about these courses by email to Admin@ORINYC.org or by phone (646-522-0387).

Thursday Evening Courses
 

Individual 10-Week Course Series on Introduction to the Object relations Theory
This 10-week course will offer an interplay of readings on clinical technique, in vivo role-playing of patients in class
with the instructor playing the psychoanalyst, and readings on in-depth clinical cases. 

These courses are offered on Thursday evenings: Group Peer Mentoring course, 6:15pm-7:30pm; Clinical
Theory Course, 8:15pm-9:30pm.

Fees (payable to ORI): $450/ 10-week Clinical Theory course; $450/ 10-week Group Peer Mentoring course.
Fees for each course are fully refundable before first class, but only partially refundable after the first class of
each semester. 

Useful information related to getting financial assistance for your education from your employer:

Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (Training Foundation)  is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization.

Our EIN # 133697333. We are chartered by NYS Department of Education to provide post-graduate training in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

To register, please send the registration form and the payment to:
ORI Administrator, 75-15 187 street, Fresh Meadows, NY, 11366-1725.
 

For more information, email Admin@ORINYC.org or DrKavalerAdler@gmail.com, or call 212-674-5425 or 646-522-0387.
Certificate for CE credits (APA and NAAP-based) can be provided if inquired in at least 30 days in advance
(write to admin@ORINYC.org).

  October 6 - December 15, 2011, 8:30-9:45pm. Course Calendar: October 6, 13, 20, 27; November 3, 10, 17; December 1, 8, 15.

Location: 115 East 9th Street; 12P, NYC, 10003

Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory & Technique of Psychotherapy - course is completed
 Instructor: Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler

This course will introduce students to critical psychic structure issues related to character disorder pathology and
the related developmental issues.  Clinical technique will be addressed through both readings in British Object Relations
Theory and American Object Relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing,
the students will have an opportunity to “get inside the skin of their patients,” or experience their patients from the inside
out, while the Instructor will play the role of the psychoanalytic object relations psychotherapist-analyst. British Object relations theory will come alive through the writings and work of American Object Relations theorists.

Full syllabus is available HERE for download OR CLICK HERE to be forwarded to the web page dedicated to this course

For more information, contact ORI Administrator at 646-522-1056.

  October 6 - December 15, 2011, 8:15-9:30pm. Course Calendar: October 6, 13, 20, 27; November 3, 10, 17; December 1, 8, 15.

Location: 19 West 34th Street; Penthouse suite, 13th floor, room A13; NY, NY, 10001.

Introduction to Melanie Klein; Her Writing and Work - course is completed
 Instructor: Charles Bonerbo, LCSW

This course serves as an introduction to the major psychoanalytic concepts of Melanie Klein. The class will examine the history and subsequent development of core clinical concepts of Kleinian theories and explore their relevance and applications to treatment. 

Depressive and Paranoid-Schizoid Positions, “Phantasy”, “Manic Defenses,” Envy and Gratitude, and Projective Identification will be studied and discussed.

Clinical examples will be offered. Candidates are also requested to provide their own clinical examples. 

Full syllabus is available HERE for download OR CLICK HERE to be forwarded to the web page dedicated to this course

For more information, contact ORI Administrator at 646-522-1056.

  January 5 - March 8, 2012. Course Calendar: January 5, 12, 19, 26; February 2, 9, 16, 23; March 1, and 8.

Sigmund Freud as an Object Relations Theorist - course is in progress
 Instructor: Rafael Javier, PhD

Place: 217 E 12th St. 4F (between 2nd and 3rd Ave).

This course offers a careful critical examination of major original works of Freud from its very beginning of his publication on hysteria to his later works on the extent to which the work of psychoanalysis is greatly limited by the strength of the instincts in terms of its capacity to produce permanent cure. The emphasis of this course is on the careful
delineation of how Freud’s concepts  of the “object” is present in his major works, and how his thinking contributed extensively to current theoretical positions on object relations. 

In this context, we examine his work on symptom formation, narcissism, sexuality, masochism, to name a few.  Students are expected to read these original works,
which are also supplemented with other relevant writings from current thinkers.

For the Course Syllabus, click here

  January 5 - March 8, 2012. Course Calendar: January 5, 12, 19, 26; February 2, 9, 16, 23; March 1, and 8.

Donald Winnicott and His Contribution to Object relations Clinical Thinking: The Theory, Practice, and Importance  - course is in progress
 Instructor: Ruth Danon, PhD 

Place: 88 University Place, 4G; NYC. Instructor's contact Info: 212-673-4894; rd2@nyu.edu

"Psychotherapy takes place in the overlap of two areas of playing, that of the patient and that of the therapist. Psychotherapy has to do with two people playing together. The corollary of this is that where playing is not possible then the work done by the therapist is directed towards bringing the patient from a state of not being able to play into a state of being able to play. (from "Playing: Its Theoretical Status in the Clinical Situation," 1971)"

This is a ten week introduction to the theory, practice, and significance of the work of the British Object Relations theorist and practitioner, D. W. Winnicott. We will first place Winnicott in context and then move through some of his major concepts. In each class we will do close reading of significant papers and discuss application to actual practice.

This course shows how D.W. Winnicott transformed the practice of psychoanalysis, enlarging its scope to understand the developmental progressions, disruptions, and traumas that take place within with the whole, or the leaking container of the “mother-infant matrix.”

We will be working mainly with primary material, though other texts may appear along the way or in the course packet. Through Pediatrics to Psychoanalysis is required. I will provide a course packet that includes the articles we will use from other texts. If you’re really interested, you should get the wonderful collection of Winncott’s letters, called The Spontaneous Gesture.  I will use excerpts from the book during the class. These, too, will be in the course packet.

Supplementary material by Ogden, Kavaler-Adler, and others will be included in the course packet and referred to during the course.

For course outline, please Click HERE

  March 15 - May 24, 2012

Course Calendar: March 15, 22, 29; April 5, 12, 26; May 3, 10, 17, and 24.

Sandor Ferenczi and Michael Balint: The Use of Therapeutic Regression in Psychoanalysis  - registration is open
 Instructor: Jeffrey Lewis, PhD

Regression, in the classical psychoanalytic vernacular, usually refers to a powerful defensive operation whereby, should an individual find themselves overwhelmed by anxiety in a current developmental state of affairs, they may be transported backwards to an earlier developmental stage either ear-marked due to fixation (that is, having not been gratified or conversely having been overly gratified at that step and hence retaining a libidinal residue there) or due to this early stage providing a safe retreat to a place and time when things were better. In either case, Freud noted these phenomena in his clinical practice, and tended to see regression as therapeutically undesirable and a process which signified a treatment failure which needed to be ceased and reversed…if not prohibited.

On the other hand both Sandor Ferenczi and his protégé Michael Balint saw regression as therapeutically useful (provided it wasn’t malignant) and actually a non-optional component of a complete analysis for the most serious pathological presentations. If the patient is not allowed to regress to the point of the “trauma” or alternately, to the “basic fault”, how will the necessary reparative processes be instituted and the growth process restarted such to elicit and encourage a “new beginning”?

This course via readings, a ten class didactic explanation of critical topics, and finally actual clinical material from both instructor and students, will make comprehensible and useful the powerful treatment modality of therapeutic regression. Sandor Ferenczi’s techniques will also be studied, including the “active technique,” the “humanistic method,” “relaxation therapy” and “mutual analysis.”  In addition, the place of regression in modern clinical technique will be explored.


For Course Syllabus, click here

  March 15 - May 24, 2012

Course Calendar: March 15, 22, 29; April 5, 12, 26; May 3, 10, 17, and 24.

Contributions of Ronald Fairbairn to the Object Relations Theory  - registration is open
 Instructor: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD

Ronald Fairbairn was the first psychoanalytic theorist to explicitly proclaim that from the beginning of our lives, we strive to connect with another human being, and that this striving is primal and fundamental for being a human. In contrast to any thinking about narcissism as a primary rather than a secondary phenomenon, Fairbairn was the first of the British object relations theorists to declare that the need for connection is the most basic human need, and that all psychopathology stems from early attachments to “bad” objects (primary caregivers); “bad” in terms of disruptions of and failing to support developmental growth of the human psyche.  Addiction to those “bad” objects, who abandon, abusively intrude, or attack, or those who detach from the child’s most fundamental emotional needs, becomes the cause of internal and external world repetitions of failed parenting. Loyalty to the sabotaging internal object, derived from the primal caregivers, results in perpetual self sabotage, unless successful object relations psychotherapy intervenes. 

Only the contact and connection with another human being in psychological treatment can heal the early trauma and its addictions, which repeat that trauma throughout life.  By understanding that the full pathological characters are compulsively "swallowed whole" by innocent children, who are by their very nature hungering for relationships and identifications with their parents, Fairbairn was particularly able to pin point the core causation of any character disorders that stem from trauma in the first three years of life.

He also was then able to understand that children will inevitably blame themselves for the problems of their parents, as they are totally dependent on parents, while full but dissociated parts of the parents oppose and attack their most powerful emotional and psychological needs.  No child can survive with consciousness that the early mother, and the later parents (who they are bound to by absolute dependence) are inadequate, incapable, or even seriously dangerous to their well-being.  Instead, children will turn the blame against themselves to protect the image of the parents, and to create the illusion that they are safe, when the truth would devastate them to the point of psychic self-annihilation. 

Fairbairn understood this, and spoke of the moral defense in the language of the church, as he had once studied to become a minister.  He wrote in his famous 1952 “Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality” that “…it is better to be a sinner in a world ruled by God than to live in a world ruled by the Devil.” 

Here, Fairbairn conveyed to the world that a helpless child must idealize a parent, no matter how pathological that parent is, in order to preserve a fragile sanctity based on a belief that the world is safe enough.  The child would rather be "bad," and make up reasons to attribute badness to herself or himself, than to have to face the intolerable truth that the parent is bad in the sense of being actually dangerous or seriously inadequate.  This kind of thinking overlaps with Ferenczi’s view of trauma in children, and with Michael Balint’s view of “the basic fault,” and with many others, including D. W. Winnicott, who looked at trauma disrupting early human development. 

Fairbairn also overlaps with Melanie Klein in seeing that each person carries inside an internal world of fantasy object relations, however for Fairbairn the internal object relationships are vividly created through the internalization of the actual maladies in the child’s parents, and in how the parent ignores, abandons, or abuses this child in reality.  The internalization of malignant or poor attachments then plays a major role in determining the personality of the growing child.  As Freud said in Mourning and Melancholia (1917), “the shadow of the object [i.e., a parent] fell upon the ego” of the growing child. 

Fairbairn saw an infant as a person who has wholeness within itself in the beginning, with human motivation having both energy and structure, his “libidinal ego.”   It is only due to the weakness and failures of all parenting, and particularly of parenting by parents with character pathology, that a whole being with energy and structure gets split up and divided apart, with one ("bad") part attacking or inhibiting the healthy strivings towards connection with others in the external world.     

For Course Syllabus, click HERE

Wednesday Morning Courses

Individual 7-week Course Series on Object Relation Theory and Clinical Practice - will restart in October 2012
These courses are offered on Wednesday mornings, 9am - 10:15 am, at: 115 E 9th street (off 3rd avenue),
12P, NY, NY 10003. Each course of this series is followed by a Group Peer Mentoring course, 10:15 am- 11:30 am,
same location. (Please, note that in order to receive a certificate, you need to sign up for both courses at a time.)

Fees (payable to ORI): $300/ 7-week Clinical Theory course; $300/ 7-week Group Peer Mentoring course.
Fees for each course are fully refundable before first class, but only partially refundable after the first class of
each semester. 

To register, please send the registration form (available here) and the payment to:
ORI Administrator, 75-15 187 Street, Fresh Meadows, NY, 11366-1725
For more information, email Admin@ORINYC.org or DrKavalerAdler@gmail.com, or call 212-674-5425 or 646-522-0387.
Certificate for CE credits (APA and NAAP-based) can be provided if inquired in at least 30 days in advance
(write to admin@ORINYC.org).
  The Theories of Melanie Klein
This course addresses fundamental clinical and developmental contributions of Melanie Klein, stressing qualitative
issues over content issues. Some topics include concepts of interpreting object, historical subject, self-reflective
capacity, and symbolic level of being.
For those interested in Melanie Klein works and Klein-Neo-Kleinians- Winnicott dialectic, but unable to attend
morning events, please contact Dr. Kavaler-Adler for information on her private study groups.
Also, visit www.kavaleradler.com for more information.
 D.W. Winnicott’s Writings and Theories
This course shows how D.W. Winnicott transformed the practice of psychoanalysis, enlarging its scope to
understand the developmental progressions, disruptions, and traumas that take place within with the whole,
or the leaking container of the “mother-infant matrix.”
 For those interested in Melanie Klein works and Klein-Neo-Kleinians- Winnicott dialectic, but unable to attend
morning events, please contact Dr. Kavaler-Adler for information on her private study groups.
Also, visit www.kavaleradler.com for more information.
  Writings of Ronald Fairbairn, the Theoretical Founder of the Object Relations Theory
 Students will learn about Fairbairn’s understanding of fundamental human strivings as strivings for connection,
as well as about the “moral defense,” “the poisonous pie”-parent, about ghosts of our internal objects, and
body enactments.
For the Course Syllabus, click here: Syllabus/ Fairbairn
  The Theories of Wilfred Bion
This course will explain Bion’s dialectic with Melanie Klein and Neo-Kleinians regarding every-day containment
and processing of what patients “put into us,” as well as “attacks on linking,” “therapeutic containment,”
“psychic pain”, “psychic birth”, and the “journey of reverie.”
For the Course Syllabus, click here: Bion/ Syllabus
  British Object Relations Theory
 This course will explore contributions of American psychoanalysts in Object Relations psychoanalytic
theory and clinical technique.

 

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            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) 

        Mourning, Developmental vs. Pathological  (part 6)

         Bad Objects and Loyalty to Bad Objects - Object Relations View (part 7)

           Demon-lover Complex - Object Relations View (part 8)

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