Celebrating its 20th Anniversary of educating mental health professionals
Welcome to the Object Relations
Institute:
A Non-Profit & New
York State Chartered Educational
Institute
December 26, 2011
Dear Friends,
On this “crossroad” day of the Holiday season, – the Day of Christmas, the 5th Day of Hanukkah, and a week before the New Year, – please accept our best and sincere wishes for health, happiness, peace, and joy for you and your loved ones all around the globe.
On this day, the spirit of hope, freedom, dedication, redemption, purification, and of course, miracles unite all of us, despite any differences in our religious, political, or social allegiances.
On this day, let’s stop for a minute and reflect on what we’ve achieved and who we lost since such a day a year back. In this past year, we lost two of our greatest supporters and scientific faculty members – Dr. Joyce McDougal and Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld. Although neither of them can no longer indulge us with lively and life-transforming presentations and discussions, their presence in life of the ORI Community will continue – through our work, incorporating the vast knowledge we’ve acquired from these two deep Object Relations thinkers, teachers, and great souls. We are sure that both of them would be happy to celebrate our achievements, and the following are just a few major ones.
ORI is proud to report that we’d just celebrated our 20th anniversary and started our third decade of psychoanalytic training and educating mental health practitioners and general public.
ORI had initiated a non-profit Cause on Facebook, “Support Mental Health Education,” with 240 members and growing. Each member is spreading the word about the Cause and bringing awareness of the need to support of young mental health professionals who chose this underfunded field in dedication to the bigger social goals.
On YouTube, ORI promotes psychoanalytic and Object Relations literacy, through its free educational mini-video-series, “Object Relations View.” In our first eight videos, such important topics as “bad objects” and “loyalty to bad objects,” self-sabotage, “time as an object,” projective identification,” etc., are revealed through accessible language and clinical examples.
ORI is also proud to report the opening of our own publishing company, ORI Press, with the motto: “Furthering, Uniting, and Popularizing Psychoanalytic and Scientific Thought.” Our first two books (“The Compulsion to Create” and “The Creative Mystique,” by Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt.) are ready to see the bookshelves in February 2012.
Our next few titles are: * About Dreams (children’s book by Suzanne Saldarini, M.A., LPC); * A Consilience of Natural and Social Sciences: A Memoir of Original Contributions (by Henry Kellerman, PhD); * Anatomy of Rape (by Jeffrey Lewis, PhD); * Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as an Object (Edited, Collective work);* Neurobiology for Psychotherapists and Psychoanalysts: A Guide to Mind through the Brain Matter (by Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD). ORI Press is announcing call for psychoanalytic publications, including call for papers related to work of Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld, who was a presenter and discussant at all of our annual conferences and at all “Seinfeld’s workshops.” Paper selection will be finished by March 30th, 2012, and selected paper(s) will be presented at the Annual Memorial lecture/workshop dedicated to Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld (in May 2012, exact date TBA).
For more information about ORI, our different on-going projects and educational events, please visit this web site often, sign up for our listserv announcements, or email the administrator at Admin@ORINYC.org/ call 646-522-0387. To get involved with our Cause “Support Mental Health Education,” you can visit the Cause on Facebook or visit our website, and click on the tab “Facebook.” Any level of involvement will be appreciated – financial, volunteering, and participating in our educational events. If you choose to donate to the Cause or to ORI – your contribution is tax-deductible!
For more information regarding publishing opportunities with the ORI Press, please contact the editor by email (ORIpress@ORINYC.org or ORIPressEditor@Gmail.com) or by phone (646-522-1056).
With thanks and best wishes,
Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD
ORI Administrator and Community Outreach Coordinator
"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without
thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks
strength and fortitude.
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual
road."
[John Henry Jowett]
Please, read an article on Neuroscience of Giving and Receiving (by Inna Rozentsvit, M.D.) HERE.
December 1, 2011
After twenty years of educating and training Mental Health professionals, as well as general public, ORI had established Object Relations Institute Press (ORI Press), and we are celebrating this event on December 10th, 2011, at the ORI's Holiday Party.
Mission of the ORI Press is: Furthering, uniting, and popularizing psychoanalytic and scientific thought.
First two books of the ORI Press will be published in the first quarter of 2012. They are: The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers and The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity - by Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt. These books were originally published by Rutledge, but now, newly edited, illustrated, and with additional chapters, they will appear on the book shelves again.
ORI Press is announcing call for psychoanalytic publications, including call for papers related to work of Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld. Paper selection will be finished by March 30th, 2012, and selected paper(s) will be presented at the Annual Memorial lecture/workshop dedicated to Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld (in May 2012, exact date TBA).
For more information regarding publishing opportunities with the ORI Press, please contact the Editor, Dr. Inna Rozentsvit - by email (ORIpress@ORINYC.org or ORIPressEditor@Gmail.com) or by phone (646-522-0387 or 646-522-1056).
September 2011
Ten years ago, on September 11th, 2001 we all experienced tremendous loss and trauma, which never will be forgotten, but now - we are celebrating life of those who perished, and resilience of those who survived.
Please, enjoy this essay written by our Institute's Executive Director and Founder, Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler, in the spirit of the moment...
THE DAY THE WORLD FELL APART:
REMEMBERING 9/11 TEN YEARS LATER
By Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt, NPSyA
A car of strangers pulls up on the corner near my office building in lower Manhattan and one of the strangers says to me as they catch me on my way to cross the street. “Which is the way to Ground Zero?” I wince. I feel offended, invaded, intruded on by what appears to be a bunch of out of town tourists asking me for directions to a local tourist spot, asking as if they have gone down a list, and now are just focusing on their next renowned destination, which happens to be 9/11’s sacred and tragic “Ground Zero.” I am struck by my own reaction because it is so different than any other time that a stranger, whether a tourist or a New Yorker, asks me for directions. Usually I am friendly and try to help out as best I can, especially if I’m not in a particular rush as most New Yorkers are. But this time is different. I start to appreciate feelings that I didn’t realize were there. My first feeling is anger, and some indignation, as I feel alienated from these strangers who are not among the vast clan of New Yorkers who actually experienced 9/11 close at hand, together as native New Yorkers. I don’t think these people can really understand, even though I never had such thoughts before when all the news reports brought our whole nation together as Americans when the cultural heart of America was struck with sudden devastation. My next feelings are of grief, sadness, and a silent nostalgia that I have no attention of sharing with this car load of strange tourists. I waive them towards the downtown area and dash away!
I am now jolted into remembering the actual day, the actual time, the actual place. I find myself walking past the outside garden restaurant where I sat with a friend on that day, dazed and unbelieving as a picture perfect day surrounded me, belying what I had already experienced that morning. For it was after a cell phone call from a patient heading to my office, which blared out a message that made me pick up the phone in the middle of a session with someone who had made it to my office that day, that the shock of what was radiating all over the world entered my consciousness. At first she said: “I’m on the way to your office but I’m afraid for my staff,” and then a long pause, “Oh no there’s another plane. It’s heading at a building. I can’t come. I have to go back and be with my office staff!” After she hung up, I turned on the radio to hear what was happening because some catastrophe was obviously at hand! The female patient who I was with was in her 80s, and as soon as WNYC’s reporting of the imminent events could be heard, my patient began to tell me about the day the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor, the day of the 1940’s catastrophe that had ushered America into World War II. Suddenly, the roles of me and my patient seemed reversed. My mid-80’s patient came out of her childhood transference state-- in which I often played the role of her mother-- to relate to me, as someone around much before my time, the historic preludes to this current invasion from abroad.
As a Clinician
But now I wish to convey to you some thoughts about 9/11 as a clinician, as a psychologist and psychoanalyst who has practiced for 36 years, and who remembers some critical clinical work that I did with my patients during the traumatic impact of 9/11. I want to stress that I believe the most important work I did during the time of 9/11 was truly as a psychoanalyst with my ongoing, mostly long term, patients. This doesn’t mean that I didn’t volunteer to be of help in a short term way with those in acute crisis. I did. I did a little bit in talking to those in shock inside the doors of a corporation that was enlightened enough to have mental health professionals on hand for their employees to talk to. But my most true, in depth impact was with my very own patients, the ones I had been engaged with over time, the ones whose process I had been nurturing all along. In fact, a significant part of this impact was with the lady who had called on the cell phone, a business woman, who ran back to be with her staff of employees at the time of imminent crisis. Her business office had been severely damaged, and she lost a lot of business, which had made it impossible to pay her exorbitant New York rent for a month. And this was after she had moved her office into her home, so both her home and business, and business relations, were threatened if she failed to pay her rent. I believe that her ability to stand up to Red Cross officials and demand that she be given compensation for the month’s rent and business expenses, was a direct result of the analytic work we did in her regular treatment sessions, as I interpreted how the current crisis, in which she felt her world falling apart, was exacerbated by her unconscious re-living of the first time she had felt the world was falling apart, in her childhood, when she was nine years old. It was when she was nine that her mother decided to leave her father’s home and take her and her brother with her. Pretending to be an adult, and in an effort to support her mother, she declared as she was whisked away in an automobile with her mother, “Well, I’m glad that’s over with!” But inside her inner world was falling apart. Her sense of self, that had been so associated with the applause and cheerleading of her father, was plummeting into the depths of despair and into a hidden and covert helplessness! She put on a brave face and an attitude of bravado for her mother, but inside she was enraged at the mother who was dragging her away from both the father and the home she absolutely loved. Of course she could not at any cost allow herself to be conscious of her rage at her mother because now her mother was her only parent, the only one she had to depend on in all the world-- and she didn’t even know where she was going. Everything was topsy-turvy as she was sped off in a vehicle with her angry and depressed mother at the wheel! She left behind the painted bedroom that was called the “upside down room,” with the ceiling looking like the floor. Now things were really upside down!
But every week, this middle-aged female patient, this generally assertive business woman who felt like jelly inside, came to her twice weekly analytic sessions, and re-lived with a more acute conscious grief than ever before, as the memories rushed up within her, her feeling that “the whole world is falling apart!” And in this re-living, with the holding environment that she and I created together in the treatment room, my patient was able to piece by piece separate out the memories of how the world had fallen apart when she was nine, and the current realities of how the world was falling apart in the present, in the wake of 9/11 that had happened in her backyard. I had a number of other patients whose homes and art studios, or offices, were besieged by the assaults of 9/11 on the lower West side, and they too had to remember all the earthquakes that emerged from their unconscious internal world domains with the current external and sociological shocks. But I remember the work with this woman most of all! I remember how she saved herself financially, as she saved herself psychologically, by working faithfully within the well-kept boundaries of the psychoanalytic process, in the treatment room where it was safe to remember and safe to experience the flood of feelings that she had repressed and kept at bay all these years, all though we had touched on them before. The acuteness of the trauma of 9/11 was with us all, but I was most centered and least helpless, and most effective, when I stayed loyally in my psychoanalytic role and worked progressively with this woman. Her trauma and resilience is obvious. But my own resonates too, through the work I did in connection with her.
Thank you!
FYI: On October 22nd, at the NAAP 2011 conference, Dr. Kavaler-Adler will be offering a workshop on “Trauma and Resilience: An Object Relations Perspective.”
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20th Anniversary Annual Conference
(February 26th, 2011):
Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as a Persecutory
vs. a Holding Object
19th Annual Conference (2010): Psychoanalysis & Spirituality
18th Annual Conference
(2009):
Eroticized Demonic Object, the Demon Lover, Masud Khan, Date Rape, & Argentine Tango
Our Institute offers
* Certificate programs in Object Relations Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis:
One Year Object Relations Day Program for Practicing Clinicians
One Year Evening Program: An Introduction to Object Relations Theory & Clinical Application
Two-Tear Evening Program: Advanced Object Relations Clinical Theory & Technique
One Year Clinical Mentorship Program for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists
Four Year Certificate Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
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.
* Individual courses & seminars (new in 2011):
Child Development & Application of Object Relations Theory to Working with Children (seminar)
Infant Research & Object Relations Approach
Interpretation of Dreams & Object Relations Clinical Technique (Advanced course)
Neurobiology of Object Relations (seminar)
* Exposure to the
work of advanced clinicians
(as instructors, mentors, supervisors, lecturers, and discussants).
Group and individual
clinical mentorship - email Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler
at DrKavalerAdler@gmail.com.
* Annual Conference & Annual Workshop Series:
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
646.522.0387 or by email at
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individuals, couples, adolescents and children
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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.
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)
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