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CONFERENCE FACULTY

Joyce Slochower Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor of Psychology at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program, the Steven Mitchell Center, the National Training Program of NIP and PPSC (Psychoanalytic Psychology Study Center), all in New York, and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco. Dr. Slochower is on the American Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Ricerca Psicoanalitica and Perspectives in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Slochower has published over 40 articles on various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and technique and lectures frequently in the U.S., Israel, and Italy. She is the author of Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (1996) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (2006), both by the Analytic Press..

Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, NCPsyA, is a clinical psychologist and object relations psychoanalyst who has been in private practice for 31 years. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she teaches, supervises and conducts training analysis. Dr. Kavaler-Adler is an internationally recognized object relations theorist and author, who has published 52 articles and three books on such topics as the psychoanalytic process as a developmental mourning process, well-known women artists and writers, and the creative process. Her three books are: The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge 1993, Other press 2000), The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity (Routledge, 1996), and Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis (Brunner-Routledge, 2003), which was a recipient of the 2004 National Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Kavaler-Adler was recently a guest lecturer for the 10th anniversary of the Object Relations Institute of Seoul, South Korea—the only psychoanalytic institute in Korea. The institute hosted a three-day conference on "Developmental Mourning Versus the Demon Lover Complex;" the conference which was titled after Dr. Kavaler-Adler's theories.

M. Nasir Ilahi, LLM is a scientific member and faculty at the Object Relations Institute. Mr. Ilahi is also clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical School; faculty, New York University Psychoanalytic Institute; visiting faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute, and Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Institute; Member, British Psychoanalytic Society and International Psychoanalytic Association.

Jeffrey Seinfeld, Ph.D., a scientific member and frequent presenter of the Object Relations Institute, is on the faculty of New York University School of Social Work, and a clinical supervisor at the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services. He is the author of several books: A Primer on the Negative Therapeutic Reaction (Jason Aronson, 2002), Containing Rage, Terror, and Despair: An Object Relations Approach to Psychotherapy (Jason Aronson 1996), The Bad Object: Handling the Negative Therapeutic Reaction in Psychotherapy (Jason Aronson 1993) and The Empty Core: An Object Relations Approach to Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Personality (Jason Aronson 1991).

Margaret Yard, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at Lehman College, Faculty in Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, Alumni and Faculty in the Program in International Trauma Studies, Columbia University. In addition to many publications and research awards, she is co-authoring a book with Dr. Arnold Rachman entitled “Analysis of the Incest Trauma; Retrieval, Recovery and Renewal.” She has contributed to trauma standards for the American Group Psychotherapy Association as well as participated in a series called “Helping the Helpers.” Dr. Yard is a published poet, lyricist and opera composer. The premier of “Katrina, Voices of the Lost” was presented at the 2007 Spring Festival of the New York Arts Ensemble in Soho.