Instructor: Rafael Javier, PhDIndividual Courses
Traditional Thursday Evening Courses:
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. (Please, note that you can sign up for one or both courses at a time).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.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).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.
Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory & Technique of Psychotherapy - FINISHED
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. Trough 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 registration form - click HERE.
For more information, contact ORI Administrator at 646-522-1056.
Introduction to Melanie Klein; Her Writing and Work - FINISHED
Instructor: Charles Bonerbo, LCSWThis 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 registration form - click HERE.
For more information, contact ORI Administrator at 646-522-1056.
Sigmund Freud as an Object Relations Theorist - in progress
Place: 217 E 12th St. 4A (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.
For registration form - 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
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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.
March 15 - May 24, 2012
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.
For registration form - click HERE.
March 15 - May 24, 2012
Contributions
of Ronald Fairbairn to the Object Relations Theory
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REGISTRATION is open
Instructor:
Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD
Perhaps Freud could be considered the first object relations theorist, when in 1917, in “Mourning and Melancholia,” he exclaimed that “the shadow of the object fell upon the ego,” but it was Ronald Fairbairn who explicitly built a theory of object relations thinking from the premise that the basic and core human striving is towards “connection,” and thus towards reality through connection, as opposed to holding on to any theory of primary narcissism.
Fairbairn was the first to envision what all modern infant research has validated, that the craving for the primal other dominates each human being’s life, often causing profound dissociative splitting, and sealing-off of the potential self, when this primal connection is traumatically disrupted, resulting in an internal drama where the vacuum-cleaner-sucking feeling of early need is experienced as the evisceration, robbing, entrapping, exploiting, or draining of the self. And wasn’t it Fairbairn who spoke of the “poison pudding”-parent who must be swallowed whole when there is no other psychic food that could be good enough to eat and digest?
Wasn’t it also Fairbairn who spoke of “the moral defense” that compelled deprived, abandoned, abused, and generally traumatized children to always blame themselves, to psychically survive in a world with the parents they were forced to totally depend on? An idealized image of the parent is preserved then, at the price of the emaciation of the soul, because psychic annihilation would have been the alternative. Child is forced in making a choice, as he/she decides that “it is better to be a sinner in a world ruled by God than to live in a world ruled by the Devil” (Fairbairn, 1952, p.p. 66-67).
Fairbairn played with the vocabulary which he had learned when training to be a minister in Scotland. This period of his biography happened prior to his excursions to London, to speak at the British Psychoanalytic Society, side by side with Melanie Klein, who also spoke about profound dynamic internal objects.
This ten-week course will touch on all this seminal theory along with Fairbairn’s clinical contributions related to visceral body enactments in hysteria, and the somatic body enactments that go further into playing out their monotone primal dramas in the internal world as internal object repetitions. Fairbairn is the perfect theorist to describe the phenomena of Hamlet’s “ghost,” when he spoke of people in psychological purgatory throughout a lifetime, unless object relations treatment slowly intervenes. According to Fairbairn, we are all haunted by ghosts; the ghosts of our internal objects, so much more trenchantly alive than introjects that require a level of symbolic evolution that only small parts of us ascertain. Those interested in a prelude can read Nightmares and Object Relations Theory (by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler), in Nightmares: Psychological and Biological Foundations, edited by Dr. Henry Kellerman (1987).
New Individual Courses:
Neurobiology for
Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists: Introduction
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REGISTRATION is open
Instructor:
Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD
4 weeks, on Tuesdays, 2/7/12 – 3/6/12 (no class on 2/14); 8:00 - 9:30 pm (changed!)
Location is changed: 41 E 11th Street; 4th Floor; NYC, 10003
Fee: $200/ 4-week course ($100 for students and retired)
The intention [of this project] is to furnish a psychology that shall be a natural science. ~ S. Freud, 1895, Project for a Scientific Psychology
I am tormented by two aims: to examine what shape the theory of mental functioning takes if one introduces quantitative consideration, a sort of economics of nerve forces; and, second, to peel off from psychopathology a gain for normal psychology. ~ S. Freud, 1895, Letter to W. Fliess
He who has eyes to see and ears to hear becomes convinced that mortals can keep no secret. If their lips are silent, they gossip with their fingertips; betrayal forces itself through every pore. ~ S. Freud, 1905, The Case of Hysteria.
Significance of understanding of neurobiology for those who dedicate their professional life to psychoanalysis was recognized by neurologist/ neuropathologist Sigmund Freud at the very birth of this profession. One can be fascinated how (without PET scans and fMRIs) he could picture the structure of the mind, while having not very sophisticated fish brains at hand.
The theory of mind and brain mapping started by Freud evolved into different merging areas of interest, such as social neurology, evolutionary neuroscience, interpersonal neuroscience, mindfulness, neuropsychoanalysis, etc., etc.
In this course, we will become acquainted with brain-mind connections, with neural processes involved in memory, emotions, and social interactions. We will look into neural and neurophysiological processes of attachment, trauma, plasticity, and integration (“What fires together – wires together!”).
We will look into connections of human brain’s anatomy (which is very specific to our species) with the wholesome and creative functioning of the mind (which differs from one individual to another).
To register, please email admin@orinyc.org and/ or call 646-522-1056. RSVP is required!
For registration form - click HERE
Object Relations Perspectives on Working
with Children in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
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REGISTRATION is open
Instructor: Charles Bonerbo, LCSW
6-weeks, Wednesdays, 3/14/12 – 4/25/12 (no class on April 4th). Theory class - 7:30pm - 8:30 pm. Case seminar - 8:30pm - 9:30 pm.
Location: 19 West 34th Street. Penthouse suite, 13th floor, room TBA.
Fee for full 6-week course: $360 (for students - $180). If taken separately - Theory Class: $180 ($90 for students). Case Seminar: $180 ($90 for students).
The first part of this seminar will offer a review of the theories of child psychoanalysis developed by Melanie Klein, D.W.Winnicott, Ronald Fairbairn and Wilfred Bion. Throughout the first part of the class, we will compare and contrast how each theorist considers the emotional development of the infant and subsequent psychoanalytic treatment of children. We will then study clinical examples, utilizing their theories.
In the second half of the seminar, participants will have an opportunity to present their child psychotherapy cases in case conference format. These cases will be viewed through the perspective of each theorist.
For more information, please contact ORI Administrator at 646-522-0387 or Admin@ORINYC.org.
For registration form - click HERE.
Infant Research:
Impact on Psychoanalytic
Theory and
Technique
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REGISTRATION is open
Instructor: Ann Rose Simon, LCSW
10-weeks; Tuesday evenings, 3/6/12-5/8/12; from 7:15pm to 8:45pm
Location: 103 East 86th Street, New York, NY 10028
Fee: $450 ($225 for students) / 10-week course
This course will familiarize the participants with the major infant research projects and the theories of development that have emerged from this research. The course will explore the impact that infant research has had on accepted psychoanalytic theories of development, especially those of Freud, Melanie Klein, and Winnicott. Participants will explore how changing theories of development influence psychoanalytic technique. In addition, they will come to understand various research protocols and critically assess the validity of the research studied in the class.
For more information, call ORI administrator at 646-522-0387 or email at Admin@ORINYC.org .
For reading list and syllabus - CLICK HERE.
For registration form - click HERE.
Wednesday Morning Courses - will restart in October of 2012 (2012-2013 Academic Year at ORI):
Individual Courses - Series of Five 7-week Courses on Object Relation Theory
and Clinical Practice
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 you can sign up for one or 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
inquire, please write 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).
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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
4. 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
5. American Object Relations
Theorists and Their Dialectic with the Founders of the
British Object
Relations Theory
This course will explore contributions of American
psychoanalysts in Object Relations psychoanalytic
theory and clinical
technique.
To view the Academic Calendar for 2011-2012, please click here.
For more information and to register, call (646) 522-0387 or e-mail admin@orinyc.org or drkavaleradler@gmail.com.
You can register also via fax at 718-785-3270.
Download HERE the ORI's Individual Course & Events Registration Form.
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 of mini-video series)
Bad Objects and Loyalty to Bad Objects - Object Relations View (part 7)
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