News at the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

November is the month when we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday season. Thanksgiving is a special time, when we stop for a moment, at least, to say "Thank You" to everyone we love and cherish. This is the time when we are also reflecting on our losses. We remember and we pledge to never forget, and to always connect mentally and spiritually to those we've lost. I am connecting today with and remembering two of our greatest supporters and scientific faculty members – Dr. Joyce McDougal and Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld. Although they 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.

A year ago, ORI's Board of Directors proposed an initiative which would help us to commemorate Dr. McDougal and Dr. Seinfeld and to establish the scholarships in their names. This will allow young mental health practitioners in need to continue their education in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and object relations clinical theory and technique. If any of you would like to contribute to this scholarship fund, you will be able to interview and select its recipients, as well as be able to receive a report on this person's progress and achievements. Your contribution will be tax-deductible. You also can establish your own scholarship to commemorate someone dear to your heart or a cause that you are passionate about. If you are not able to support the whole year of training, but willing to support someone who would like to take a certificate course or attend a conference - your tax-deductible donation will be acknowledged and appreciated.

* A Consilience of Natural and Social Sciences: A Memoir of Original Contributions (by Henry Kellerman, 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).

Please, view here our 20th Anniversary poster, featuring many faculty members, graduates, and current students and candidates at the Holiday party on December 18, 2010.

Our 21th anniversary conference on Voyages Into the Internal World: Archetypes, Internal Objects, and Internal Saboteurs. Three Ways of Looking at Self-sabotage (with Jungian, Kleinian, and Fairbairnian Perspectives) - was filmed and is available for purchase. Download the purchase request HERE.

Please visit our YouTube channel, to view a short professional video with highlights of this conference, as well as our 2009, 2010, and 2011 conferences.

First year of all certificate programs (One Year-; Two-Year; and Full Four-Year programs) consists of three 10-week trimesters (conducted on Thursday evenings) of the theoretical part, which is accompanied by a complementary "Analyst as Instrument" group supervision component.

Second year of all certificate programs also consists of three 10-week trimesters of the theoretical part, which is accompanied by a complementary "Analyst as Instrument" group supervision component.

Third year of all certificate programs also consists of three 10-week trimesters of the theoretical part, which is accompanied by a complementary "Analyst as Instrument" group supervision component. Third year training includes also additional courses on Object Relations Clinical Theory offered on Wednesday mornings.

For those who received One Year training at the ORI in the past - please, inquire about furthering your study through the second year of our Two Year Program. For those who received Two-Year training at the ORI in the past - please, inquire about furthering your study through the Full Training in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Write to: admin@orinyc.org or/and drkavaleradler@gmail.com. Call 646-522-0387 or/and 212-674-5425.

Second year of all certificate programs also consists of three 10-week trimesters of the theoretical part, which is accompanied by a complementary "Analyst as Instrument" group supervision component.

5/30/12 - 6/27/12 (5-weeks; Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm) - Individual Course - Advanced Dream Interpretation Course (with Margaret A. Yard, PhD, APRN, BC) (NEW!). Location: 160 East 84^th Street, NYC.

6/03/12 (Sunday, 12-3pm) - The Dark Side of Creativity - Workshop - sponsored by Committee for Creativity & Transformation in Clinical Practice at the NYSSCSW. Workshop leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt. This presentation will focus on how psychopathology, when related to developmental arrest and character disorder, can trump the healthy and developmentally enhancing aspects of the creative process. Location: 248 West 71st Street (between Broadway and West End Avenue), NYC, 10023 Please call/ email Sandra Indig, LCSW-R, LP, ATRCB, Committee Chair, to reserve a seat – at 212-330-6787 or psych4arts@hotmail.com.

6/05/12 – 6/26/12 (4 weeks, Tuesdays, 8pm-9:30pm) - Individual Course - Neurobiology for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists – through Neuropsychiatric Clinical Cases (with Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD) (NEW!) ***This course will include previously scheduled workshop: How the Brain Tricks the Mind: Alien hand syndrome, Tourette’s, Capgras, Cotard Syndromes, and many more.

6/10/12 (1-3:30pm) – ORI OPEN HOUSE! Discussion about our multiple and re-structured traditional and virtual training programs will be complemented by examples of therapeutic role-play with implementation of the object relations clinical technique. Location: 115 East 9th Street (1t 3rd Avenue), 12P, NYC, 10023. No fee. Refreshments will be served.

Individual 7-week Course Series (Wednesday mornings) 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.

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 or write to drkavaleradler@gmail.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 or write to drkavaleradler@gmail.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

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.

Self-Sabotage - from Jungian, Kleinian, and Fairbairnian Perspectives Highlights of the ORI's 21st Annual 2012 Conference on Self-Sabotage: Jungian, Kleinian, and Fairbairnian Perspectives.