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2011 Events & Workshop Series

Jan. - March 10: Therapeutic Regression and the Work of Sandor Ferenczi and Michael Balint. 10-week course (Thursday evenings). Instructor: Jeffrey Lewis, PhD.
Feb. 2 - March 16: Revolutionary Object Relations Theory of Ronald Fairbairn: Primal Character Trauma and Fundamental Self-sabotaging Addictions to Our Internal "Bad" Objects. 7-week course (Wednesday mornings). Instructor: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP
February 12: Dances of Intimacy: Enactments and Transference in Family and Couples' Therapy from an Object Relations Approach. Workshop Leader: Claire B. Steinberger, EdD, JD
February 26, 2011 - Annual Conference Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as an Object, Persecutory or Holding. Presenter: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP; Moderator: Jeffrey Lewis, PhD; Discussants: Margaret Yard, PhD; Dr. Jeffrey Rubin, PhD; and Jeffrey Seinfeld, PhD.
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). Instructor: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP.
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). Instructor: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP
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). Instructor: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP

Dates for the Following Workshops - Dates to be announced:

Intervention Strategies in Couples' Therapy. Workshop Leader: Albert Brok, PhD, ABPP. Scheduled for March 2011.
* Time as an Object: Time Management from the Inside Out.* * Mourning and Self Integration.* *Self Sabotage: Loyalty to Primal Others.* *True Self: The Emerging Voice and Its Obstacles - "Internal Editors". Workshop Leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt.

Individual courses & seminars (new in 2011) – Please, inquire more information by calling 646-522-0387 or emailing to Admin@ORINYC.org

Child Development & Application of Object Relations Theory to Working with Children (Seminar);
Infant Research & Object Relations Approach (Seminar);
Interpretation of Dreams & Object Relations Clinical Technique (Advanced Course);
Neurobiology of Object Relations (Seminar).

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All Workshop Fees: Pre-registration @ $75 for non-students, $40 for students only

At the door registration: @ $85 for non-students, $50 for students

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

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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.Litt

March 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, PhD

May 8th: 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, LMSW

May 15th: Erotic Passion and Erotic Transference (Click here to read more) - 10am - 3pm

Workshop Leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt

Open House - from 3pm to 5pm

May 23: Love, Loss, and Madness as Manifested in the Life and Music of Robert Schumann (Click here to read more)

Workshop Leader: Lawrence Wetzler, PhD

June 6th: Open House - from 1 to 3:30 pm

June 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, PhD

June 19: Dances of Intimacy: Family Therapy with an Object Relationships Lens (Click here for more)

Workshop Leader: Claire B. Steinberger, Ed.D., J.D.

July 17^th (Saturday): Getting Into the Skin of Your Patients: Analyst as an Instrument. Workshop Leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt. (Click here to read more)

July 24^th (Saturday): The Nature and Use of Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities) While Working with Patients in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Workshop Leader: Gibbs Williams, PhD. (Click here to read more)

July 31^st (Saturday): Truths about Coping with Frustration, Anxiety, and Stress. Workshop Leader: Gibbs Williams, PhD.

September 25^th (Saturday): Time as an Object. Workshop leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt.

November 13^th (Saturday): Intervention Strategies in Couples’ Therapy. Workshop Leader: Albert Brok, PhD.

December 5^th (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).

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2009 Workshop Series

Guilt: From Neurotic to Existential Guilt as Grief and Compassion:

The Question as an Object.

2/21/09 – Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt

An Object Relations View on the Role of Loss in Infertility

Treatment and Adoption

2/28/09 – Lisa Schuman, LCSW

Resolving Self Sabatoge: An Object Relations Perspective
Saturday, 4/18/09 – Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D. ABPP, NCPsyA, D. Litt

The Creative Use of Melancholia

5/09/09 – Jeffrey Seinfeld, Ph.D. and

Robinson Lillienthal, Ph.D.

Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, NCPsyA, D. Litt – Discussant

Self Sabotage II: The Ghost of Unconscious Loyalties

6/20/09 - Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D. ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt

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Click & Watch 10-min professional video of the ORI's 2011 Annual 20th Anniversary Conference on Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as a Persecutory vs. a Holding Object.

Click & Watch the 5-minute Professional Video of the ORI's 2010 Annual Conference on Psychoanalysis & Spirituality!

Click & Watch the 5-minute Professional Video of the ORI's 2009 Annual Conference on Eroticized Demonic Object!

Visit ORI's YouTube Channel, ObjectRelations2009, to view NEW mini-video series "Object Relations View"

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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