Workshops
Fall 2011 - Spring 2012 - Workshop Series (includes individual courses, conferences, and lectures)
Registration form is available HERE
Past - 9/25/11 – Self-Sabotage as Loyalty to Internal Parental Objects: Theoretical and Clinical Integrations
– Lecture and Role-play at the NJ Society for Clinical Social Work (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt)
Past -10/1/11 - The Nature and Use of Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities) while Working with Patients in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (with Gibbs Williams, PhD) - will be rescheduled
In process -10/6/11-12/15/11 (10-weeks; Thursday evenings) - Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Technique (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD)
In process - 10/6/11-12/15/11 (10-weeks; Thursday evenings) - Melanie Klein, Her Theory and Writing (with Charles Bonerbo, LCSW)
Past - 10/22/11 – Trauma and Resilience: Object Relations View - Workshop presentation at the NAAP Annual Conference, “Trauma and resilience: Family Matters” (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt)
Past - 10/29/11 (Saturday, Full day workshop) - Dances of Intimacy: Transference, Countertransference and Enactment. An Object Relations Approach to Couple and Family Dynamics (with Claire Steinberger, Ed.D., J.D.) For description - see below or CLICK HERE
NEXT - 11/12/11 (Saturday, Full day workshop, 10am-4pm) – Barriers to Success: Object Relations Psychoanalytic Perspective (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt).
Fall - Winter 2011-2012 - TBA - Neurobiology for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists: Introduction (with Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD) (NEW!)
1/5/12-3/8/12 (10-weeks; Thursday evenings) - Freud and Object Relations Theory (with Rafael Javier, PhD)
1/5/12-3/8/12 (10-weeks; Thursday evenings) - Donald Winnicott and His Contribution to Object Relations Clinical Thinking (with Ruth Danon, PhD)
1/13/12 – Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as a Persecutory vs. Holding Object - Lecture/ paper presentation at The New York Psychoanalytic Society (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD)
2/25/12 (Saturday) – ORI’s Annual Conference: Voyages into the internal world: Archetypes, Internal Objects, and Internal Saboteurs. Three ways of looking at self-sabotage (with Jungian, Kleinian, and Fairbairnian perspectives).
3/6/12-5/8/12 (10-weeks; Tuesday evenings) - Infant Research: Impact on Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique (with Ann Rose Simon, LCSW) (NEW!)
3/7/12 – 4/11/12 (6-weeks, Wednesday evenings) - Object Relations Perspectives on Working with Children in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (with Charles Bonerbo, LCSW) (NEW!)
3/15/12-5/24/12 (10-weeks; Thursday evenings) - Sandor Ferenczi and Michael Balint: The Use of Therapeutic Regression in Psychoanalysis (with Jeffrey Lewis, PhD)
3/15/12-5/24/12 (10-weeks; Thursday evenings) - Contributions of Ronald Fairbairn to the Object Relations Theory (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD)
5/02/12-6/20/12 (8-weeks; Wednesday evenings) - Advanced Dream Interpretation Course (with Margaret A. Yard, PhD, APRN, BC) (NEW!)
All Workshop Fees: Pre-registration @ $75 for non-students, $40 for students only
At the door registration: @ $85 for non-students, $50 for students. Information on registration for the Annual Conference
on the "Conference" page of this web site.Pre-register via Mail (for the workshop, send checks or money orders only):
c/o Object Relations Institute,
75-15 187 street, Fresh Meadows, NY, 11366-1725
Phone: 646-522-0387, or Fax: 718-785-3270
E-mail Admin@orinyc.org or adminORInyc@gmail.com
Please, inquire more information by calling 646-522-0387 or emailing to Admin@ORINYC.org
BARRIERS TO SUCCESS: OBJECT RELATIONS PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE
Workshop leader – Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt
When: Saturday, November 12, 2011; 10am- 4:30 pm
Where: 115 East 9th Street (at 3rd Avenue); 12 P; NYC, 10003
Fees: Pre-registration: $75 regular/ $40 students/ retired. At the door: $85 regular/ $50 students/retired.
In this workshop, Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler will address the core conflicts and fears that serve as self-sabotaging barriers to success in all areas of achievement, creativity, and love. In the morning part of the workshop, Dr. Kavaler-Adler will discuss the theoretical and clinical issues related to dealing with barriers to success. In the afternoon she will use an “in vivo” role-play, to demonstrate the clinical approach to such issues, where a volunteer workshop participant will play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler will play the analyst.
In life, we all aspire to both conscious and unconscious goals, but often there are psychological barriers that we may cling to and be haunted by, which block our aspirations. Projected envy and terrors of the actual envy of others can block motivations to succeed, when dissociated and/or repressed primal rage intensify the intimidating power of projected hostility and envy, and of perceptions of others as rivalries in areas of competition. Desire can be blocked by oedipal level fears of rivalry and hostile completion, but more primitive and primal fears of abandonment can also be at play, when developmental arrests have taken place in the preoedipal years of separation-individuation and self-integration
How we address these psychological blocks in a clinical situation is critical to helping patients in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, to overcome all their inhibitions and intimidations, as they attempt to motivate themselves to succeed in life. Knowledge of the British and American object relations theories can be critical to help our patients free themselves up from unconscious conflicts that inhibit them, and from dissociated parts of them that are continually enacting self-sabotaging operations in their internal worlds, so that their external world progress is barred and blocked. Dr. Kavaler-Adler will discuss Melanie Klein’s theories of unconscious envy and primitive rage related to blocks in love and creativity; Ronald Fairbairn’s “internal saboteur” operations, in which unconscious loyalties to primal bad objects sabotage all progress in life; D. W. Winnicott’s “hate in the countertransference” that highlights the provoked hostilities, which cause retaliations in public and private relations that can only be overcome by the psychotherapist’s “object survival;” and Wilfred Bion’s “attacks on linking,” in which one part of the mind attacks the other, as it disrupts all connections that could result in manifested motivations. She will also address issues related to pathological mourning shown in so many cases in her own writings on object relations theory, and specifically on “fears of success.”
For further understanding of all these issues, those interested can read Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s National Gradiva Award (from NAAP 2004) winning book, Mourning, Spirituality, and Psychic Change: A new Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2003), where detailed cases are presented. Also, Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s 2006 article on fears of success, entitled, “My Graduation is my Mother’s Funeral,” can be read in the International Forum of Psychoanalysis. (This article will be provided for all workshop participants.) Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s other books and articles also address issues of success in life through the progress of “developmental mourning” versus barriers to success in arrested and pathological mourning, as seen in “the demon lover complex.”
Please, send your payment (payable to ORI) and the registration form to: ORI, 75-15 187 Street; Fresh Meadows, NY, 11366.
Past event
DANCES OF INTIMACY:
MOVING in the SPACES with CHALLENGING COUPLES -
The Potential of Transference, Countertransference and Enactment:
The Cutting Edge
Workshop Leader: Claire Steinberger, Ed.D., J.D.
Saturday, October 29th, 2011; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Where: 16 West 16th Street (betw 5th & 6th ave); # 6MN; NYC, 10011
Read more about this workshop HERE.
Past event
Self-Sabotage as Loyalty to Internal Parental Objects:
Theoretical and Clinical Integrations
Lecture and Role-play at the NJ Society for Clinical Social Work
with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt
Date: Sunday, September 25, 11am – 2pm
Location: 642 Pine Lakes Drive East, Wayne , NJ, 07470
For more information, please contact Dr. Jack Schwartz of NJSCSW at psyjack@msn.com
This event will be rescheduled
The Nature and Use of Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities)
While Working with Patients in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Full-Day Workshop, Saturday, October 1, 2011 (10am - 4pm)
Workshop Leader: Gibbs Williams, PhDLocation: 41 Fifth Avenue, # 11A; NY, NY, 10003
Fees: Pre-registration: $75 regular/ $40 students/ retired. At the door: $85 regular/ $50 students/retired. Please RSVP - Limited Seating!
A rising number of analysts are reporting an increasing frequency of coincidence prone patients in their practice. These seemingly inexplicable phenomena are often experienced with awe and a sense they may contain a coded message from some mysterious transcendent spiritual source. This workshop will describe various alternatives in explaining their nature and use in the clinical setting. Jung's theory, which has been the nearly unchallenged authority in this field for the past fifty four years, will be critically evaluated.
Those who attend this workshop can expect to:
• Explore perplexing issues associated with patients reporting synchronicities including: the meaning of meaning, how meaning is generated, and the role of spirituality, the occult, philosophy, the uncanny, chance, luck, karma, serendipity, creativity, and consciousness.
• Identify challenging issues in working with synchronicity prone patients.
• Exploring alternative theories including Jungian, Object Relations, Self and Freudian
• Focus on the role of resistance, transference, and the unconscious (collective and personal) in working with synchronicity prone patients
• Assess therapeutic progress or lack of it over time.
• Learn about decoding both your own and your patient's synchronicities.
Psychoanalyst Gibbs Williams Ph.D. has been researching these fascinating events for 50 years, and will draw from speculative philosophy, depth psychology, esoteric occult and spiritual traditions to explore the profound relevance synchronistic events have on our patient's lives; and the revolutionary impact a serious study of so called a-causal phenomena could have on our scientific understanding. Gibbs is the author of: Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, The Personal Unconscious, and The Creative Process.
To maximize your experience of this workshop, you are invited to start a personal journal. Refer to Gibbs' article on keeping a personal journal on his website: gibbsonline.com. Date each entry. Make sure you detail any of the meaningful coincidences you have between now and the workshop. Additionally describe any meaningful coincidences you might remember and bring them with you. Lastly identify those issues preoccupying you at the time of your recorded synchronicities.
For more information, please call 212-254-1084 (Dr. G. Williams) or 646 - 522-0387 (ORI Administrator) OR email toGWilliamsNY11@aol.com or Admin@ORINYC.org.
Past event
TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE: OBJECT RELATIONS VIEW
Workshop at NAAP’S October 22nd, 2012 Annual Conference @ The NY Marriott Downtown
Workshop Series II (3:40-5:10)
Workshop Leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, Litt.D., NCPsyA
This workshop will be both theoretical and experiential. The workshop leader will share brief case examples related to psychological trauma due to date rape, demon lover complex, fear of success, addiction, and early incest.
Discussion will include:
1) internal world dramas that are re-played repeatedly in the external world until the trauma is experienced, understood, and worked through in object relations psychoanalytic approach; 2) schizoid, narcissistic, and hysterical character defenses that are related to the time of the developmental arrest caused by the trauma; 3) psychic capacities that allowed for resilience and recovery in each of the traumatized subjects and how these capacities were revived and revitalized by a developmental mourning process, when they were partially dissociated through the trauma itself.
In experiential portion of the workshop, Dr. Kavaler-Adler will lead a guided psychic visualization to help each workshop participant to go into their own internal worlds and have a dialogue with someone in that world about a past trauma in their own lives. Those who wish to share their internal world experience with the workshop group will be invited to do so.
Bio: Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt, NCPsyA is the Founder and Executive Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (www.orinyc.org ). She has practiced as a psychologist and psychoanalyst for over 35 years. She is the author of three books and 60 peer-reviewed articles. Her third book, Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis, won the National Gradiva Award in 2004. Her two earlier books are: The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge 1993, Other Press, 2000), and The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity (Routledge, 1996). Her two new upcoming books are: Klein-Winnicott Dialectic and Anatomy of Regret. Visit www.kavaleradler.com .
Spring-Summer 2011 Workshop Series (includes individual courses, conferences, and lectures)
March 17 - May 26: Psychopathology and Character Disorders and the Object Relations Approach to Treatment. British Object Relations Theorists and Their Followers. 10-week course (Thursday evenings; 8:30-9:45pm).
March 23 - May 11: Wilfred Bion and His Fundamental Clinical Concepts of the Analyst as an Actively Processing Psychic Container for the Patient's Intolerable Internal World. 7-week course (Wednesday mornings, 9:30-10:45am).
March 27th: Time as an Object: Time Management from the Inside Out (10am-3pm). Workshop Leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP.
March 27th: Open House – 3pm-5pm.
May 1st: The Nature and Use of Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities) While Working with Patients in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. (10am-4pm; one-day workshop fee $75/$85 for practicing clinicians – pre-registration and at the door registration respectively; $45/$55 for students/ retired/ general public). Workshop leader - Gibbs Williams, PhD.
May 14th: Open House – 1pm-3:30pm.
May 18 - June 29: American Object Relations Theory and Its Integration of the Seminal Contributions of the British Object Relations Theorists to Understanding Trauma and Character Disorder Reparation in Clinical Work. 7-week course (Wednesday mornings).
June 18th: Dances of Intimacy: Transference, Countertransference and Enactment. An Object Relations Approach to Couple and Family Dynamics. Workshop Leader: Claire Steinberger, J.D., E.D.
Exploring Our Internal World: Time as an Object. Time Management from the Inside Out.
Workshop Leader: Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler
Sunday, March 27, 2011 (10am – 3pm)
115 East 9th Street, 12P, NYC, 10003
ORI’s Open House – follows the workshop – 3pm-5pm (can be attended separately; no fee)
This workshop plays with an Internal World view of time: for example in terms of time as being an object that is experienced as persecutory, versus time as an object that is holding. This is a workshop about time related to internal dialectics versus polarized impasses in relation to time, all of which influence “time management” profoundly, but are never dealt with when the lens on time is external rather than internal.
This workshop focuses on facilitating the free motivational flow of time, as opposed to time trapped by compulsion such as “the compulsion to create” (Kavaler-Adler, 1993, 2000) (and not the free motivation to create. It focuses on the contrast between love addiction versus the free flow of loving feelings and intimate desire and intimate expression (as in the very unique dance of “Argentine Tango). We can also discuss time as a critical turning point in female development, as in the movie “Gigi.” Also to be addressed are work addiction (workaholism) versus the free flow of work in its dialectical dimensions of “play.” Winnicott’s “play” requires that time be experienced as holding rather than persecutory.
We will discuss the internal world personification of the “deadline” - as an object. One of the past workshops’ participant said, “I have never been on time for a deadline.” What does this do to one’s life? I said, “I have never been late for a deadline, always early.” What does this do to one’s life? And then the bigger existential questions are discussed: What are we all doing about the deadline of death? What psychic and transitional space do we cultivate for ourselves when we contemplate our mortality?
As with the earlier workshop on this topic, Dr. Kavaler-Adler will conduct an experiential group sharing, through the use of guided psychic visualization, during the afternoon part of this workshop.
Registration:
Practicing clinicians: $75 pre-registration; $85 at the door
Students/ Retired practitioners/ General public: $45 pre-registration; $55 at the door
To register, Call 646-522-0387; Fax 718-785-3270; email Admin@ORINYS.org.
Send your checks or money orders to: ORI Administrator; 75-15 187 street; Fresh Meadows, NY, 11366-1725. No charge for the Open House! Everyone is welcome!
Bio: Susan Kavaler-Adler (Ph.D., ABPP, Dr. Litt., NCpsyA) is the Founder and Executive Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She has practiced in Manhattan for over 35 years as a psychologist and psychoanalyst. Dr. Kavaler-Adler is the author of three books and 58 journal articles and edited book chapters in the field of psychoanalysis, creativity, and object relations theory. Her book, Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis won the National Gradiva Award in 2004. She has won 10 other awards for her professional writing. Her earlier books are: The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers and The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity.
2010 Workshop Series
January 16
ENVY: Envy as Hunger, as Destruction of the Good, and as Inhibitor of Love and Creative
Self-Expression (Loss of Voice), & Envy as the Projected Evil Eye (Click here to read more)
Workshop Leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.LittMarch 28
The Nature and Use of Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities) While Working with
Patients in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Click here to read more)
Workshop Leader: Gibbs A. Williams, PhDMay 8
Psychotherapeutic Exorcism of Internal Demonic Objects in Regressed Persecutory
and Schizoid Ego States (Click here to read more)
Workshop Leaders: Jeffrey Seinfeld, PhD & Sharmeen Khan, LMSWMay 15
Erotic Passion and Erotic Transference (Click here to read more)
Workshop Leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt
Open House - from 3pm to 5pmMay 23
Love, Loss, and Madness as Manifested in the Life and Music of Robert Schumann
(Click here to read more)
Workshop Leader: Lawrence Wetzler, PhDJune 6
Open House - from 1 to 3:30 pmJune 12
Wanted: A Relationship Dead or Alive? The Not So Ideal Ego, the Capacity to Love,
and Inter-subjective Object Relations (Click here to read more)
Workshop Leader: Al Brok, PhDJune 19
Dances of Intimacy: Family Therapy with an Object Relationships Lens (Click here to read more)
Workshop Leader: Claire B. Steinberger, Ed.D., J.D.July 17 (Saturday)
Getting Into the Skin of Your Patients: Analyst as an Instrument (Click here to read more)
Workshop Leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt.July 24 (Saturday)
The Nature and Use of Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities) While Working with
Patients in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Click here to read more)
Workshop Leader: Gibbs Williams, PhD.July 31 (Saturday)
Truths about Coping with Frustration, Anxiety, and Stress
Workshop Leader: Gibbs Williams, PhD.September 25 (Saturday)
Time as an Object
Workshop leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt.November 13 (Saturday)
Intervention Strategies in Couples’ Therapy
Workshop Leader: Albert Brok, PhD.December 5 (Sunday)
Contemporary Advances in the Diagnostic Assessment and Psychotherapy of Bipolar
and other Mood Disorders: Bio-chemical, Genetic, Neuro-science and Object
Relations Dimensions.
Workshop Moderators: Jeffrey Seinfeld, PhD & Mike Gropper, DSW.(TBA)
Object Relations Perspectives on Phantom of the Opera and Its Demon Lover
Theme: the Modern Film
Workshop Leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt
Click here for Dr. Kavaler-Adler's article on “Object Relations Perspectives on Phantom of the Opera and
Its Demon Lover Theme: the Modern Film,” appearing in the June 2009 edition of the American Journal
of Psychoanalysis, vol, 69 (2).
2009 Workshop Series
February 21
Guilt: From Neurotic to Existential Guilt as Grief and Compassion:The Question as an Object.
Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt
February 28
An Object Relations View on the Role of Loss in Infertility: Treatment and AdoptionLisa Schuman, LCSW
April 18
Resolving Self Sabatoge: An Object Relations Perspective
Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, NCPsyA, D.LittMay 9
The Creative Use of Melancholia
Jeffrey Seinfeld, Ph.D. and Robinson Lillienthal, Ph.D.
Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt – DiscussantJune 20
Self Sabotage II: The Ghost of Unconscious Loyalties
Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D. ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt.
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) - NEW!
Mourning, Developmental vs. Pathological (part 6 of mini-video series) - NEW
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