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Our Individual Course Series Are Back:

                                           Individual 7-week Course Series 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.

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.

Fees for each course are fully refundable before first class, but only partially refundable after the first class of each semester. 

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 M. Klein, stressing qualitative issues over content issues. Some topics include concepts of interpreting object, historical subject, self-reflective capacity, and symbolic level of being.

October 6 - November 17, 2010 - in progress

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.”

December 1, 2010 - January 26, 2011

For those interested in D.W. Winnicot's works, 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.

February 2 - March 16, 2011

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.”

March 23- May 11, 2011

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.

May 18 - June 29, 2011

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10-Week Course Series on Thursday Evenings:

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.

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.

Fees for each course are fully refundable before first class, but only partially refundable after the first class of each semester. 

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. Sigmund Freud as an Object Relations Theorist. Instructor: Dr. Rafael Javier.

October 7 - December 16, 2010

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 Syllabus, click here.

2.Sandor Ferenczi and Michael Balint, the Fathers of Clinical Work with Primal Trauma. Instructor: Dr. Jeffrey Lewis.

January 6 - March 10, 2011

This course will explore the role of therapeutic regression in the psychoanalytic experience by examining the theories and technique of Sandor Ferenczi and Michael Balint.  There will be an emphasis placed on Michael Balint’s “basic fault” and his theory of “primary lover.” 

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 Syllabus, click here.

3. Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Technique and American Object Relations Theorists. Instructor: Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler.

March 17 - May 26, 2011

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. 

Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of Object Relations, such Althea Horner, James Masterson, Thomas Ogden, Jeffrey Seinfeld, and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

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To view the Academic Calendar for 2010-2011, 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