September 22, Sunday, 12pm – 2pm, followed by the ORI’s Open House, 2-4 pm

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

Participation is free, but RSVP is required.

Note change of location to accommodate all requests for participation:

Ukrainian East Village Restaurant; 140 2nd Ave (@ 9^th Street), New York, NY 10003

This workshop will begin with discussion about the internal world’s psychic structures of each character disorder, and then, these will be related to the various maternal and parental pathologies that impact the toddler- age child during the separation-individuation stage (of Mahler), also described as the transitional stage by D. W. Winnicott.  The distinct sealed-off grandiose self of the narcissistic personality will be discussed in comparison to the more overtly enraged, inured, and victimized self of the borderline, and in contrast to the withdrawn, sealed-off and split-off affect self of the schizoid personality.

Participants will learn about clinical approaches to speaking to the schizoid patient, who is stuck in the continual need/fear dilemma that has been haunting him or her, perpetuating a primal arrest state of emotional starvation (as in Jeff Seinfeld’s “empty core”).  Input on the character structure and primitive (part object) transferences from James Masterson and Otto Kernberg will be discussed, as well the phenomenology of splitting, dissociation, projective identification, introjective identification, derived from the theories of Melanie Klein.  Melanie Klein’s “fantasy state” reenactment and Ronald Fairbairn’s reenactments of relational primal trauma will be illustrated through clinical examples.  Ronald Fairbairn’s concepts of splits of the primal self will be discussed as the precedents of James Masterson’s theories.

Both clinical and literary examples will be presented from Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s own practice and from her books. Her own theories of self integration through “developmental mourning” and of pathological mourning in the form of psychic arrest, which is eroticized in the “demon lover complex,” will be discussed, with both clinical and literary examples.

LEARNING GOALS:

1. To learn the developmental/relational issues that are critical to forming the arrested psychological structure, and self-sabotaging interpersonal relations, of the Narcissistic Character Disorder and the Borderline PD
2. To learn the developmental/relational issues that are critical to understanding the psychic structure, and self-sabotaging interpersonal avoidances of the Schizoid Character Disorder.
3. To understand how to translate these developmental issues into the a clinical technique based on both empathy and interpersonal engagement.

Please contact ORI administrator for more information – 646-522-1056 or via email: Admin@ORINYC.org

To register/ RSVP, please fill out the registration form HERE or email at Admin@ORINYC.org.

When: March 9th, Sunday, 12-2pm (with the ORI’s Open House following it, from 2 pm to 4 pm)

Where: NOTE change of location – 248 W 71st Street (@Broadway); NYC, 10023                                       

This workshop will have a precise clinical focus. Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler will present two profound resolved cases of anorexia and bulimia, which were described as case studies in her earlier clinical writings. The workshop participants will get the understanding about eating disorders being directly related to an internal world where an envious, hungry Mother resides.  This kind of Internal Mother has disrupted and arrested the person’s self-integration and separation-individuation processes.

The resolution of developmental trauma, which involves a “developmental mourning process” in treatment, and a clear look at the “demon lover complex,” within the internal world, as well as the blocked erotic desires that are part and parcel of arrested “developmental mourning” and the “demon lover complex”- will be illustrated and discussed.

The role of symptomatic compulsive spending, in the case of the bulimic, will be seen as transitional stage phenomena in the resolution of physical bulimia, and in the emergence of psychic bulimia in the transference.  The role of self-righteousness and contempt will be seen as manic defenses in the case of the anorexic.

These themes relate to the themes of discussion in Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s monthly and weekly supervision groups.  They also relate to her books and articles, and to her well known and original object relations theory.

For a taste of the topic, please visit The Object Relations View mini-video series on YouTube (http://youtu.be/XDSVKLJAAh0) and on ORI’s web site (http://orinyc.org/you.html), to watch the video (part 13) on Eating Disorders: The Object Relations View.

For those who want preparatory reading for this workshop, they can explore three of Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s clinical and literary books: Mourning, Spirituality, and Psychic Change:  A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2003; won the 2004 Gradiva Award from NAAP); The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization in Vivid Case Studies (Karnac, 2013); and The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge 1993, Other Press 2000, ORI Academic Press, 2013).

Bio: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D. Litt., NCPsyA is in practice as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst for almost 40 years. She is the founder and executive director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she serves as the training and supervising analyst, and senior faculty member, after teaching and supervising for many other institutes, including NIP.  Dr. Kavaler-Adler offers private monthly and weekly supervision and writing groups, and virtual (Internet-based) supervision groups, and a monthly intensive psychotherapy and mourning group, where she employs guided meditative visualizations for group sharing.  Dr. Kavaler-Adler also does much individual supervision, psychotherapy and creative writing consultations.  She is a prolific author, with five published books and over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and edited book chapters. Dr. Kavaler-Adler is the recipient of 12 awards for her writing in the field of psychoanalysis.   For more information about her practice, publications, and speaking engagements, visit www.kavaleradler.com  Dr. Kavaler-Adler can be contacted by email, drkavaleradler@gmail.com or phone 212-674-5425.

  Eating Disorders: The Object Relations View.

  For Registration Form, click HERE

Workshop leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt, executive director and founder of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

When: July 20^th, 2014, Sunday, 1 pm – 4 pm. Event is free, but RSVP is required.

Where: In-person – at 115 East 9^th Street, 12P, NY, NY, 10003 and Virtually – via Internet audio/visual connection (with minimal technical requirements).

During this workshop, the participants will explore different modes of crying, breathing, and sleepiness – in patient and in psychotherapist – through the object relations lens of self-integration and separation-individuation, and developing the true self by relinquishing old arresting and defensive attachment operations.

Participants will enjoy in vivo role play and a lively discussion about our integrated in-person and virtual certificate programs, lectures, and workshops.

Those who would like to participate in object relations approach-based “group experience” with Dr. Kavaler-Adler – can do so from 4 pm through 5:30 pm.

For more information about the workshop, open house, and virtual participation – please contact ORI’s administrator at 646-522-1056 or by email to admin@orinyc.org .

Spring 2015 ORI’s Open House and Interactive Lecture on 

Addiction to Bad Objects and “Nightmares and Object Relations Theories” 

will be held on Sunday, 3/15/15 (1-4 pm)

Location: 248 W 71st Street, NYC 10023

Everyone is welcome! Refreshments will be served. No fee, but RSVP is required!

In this spring 2015 Open House, Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler, ORI’s founder and executive director, will offer a lecture related to the critical clinical phenomena of attachments to “bad objects.” Participants will enter the internal world of one’s psyche through the medium of patients’ nightmares, which acutely reflect the psychodynamic dramas related to addiction to “bad objects.”

Drawing upon one of her early papers, published as a book chapter in Dr. Henry Kellerman’s (Ed.) 1987 book, entitled “Nightmares and Object Relations Theory” (Columbia University Press), Dr. Kavaler-Adler will revisit how we find all the powerful internal world object relations dramas, which can become acutely alive in our nightmares.  In order to enrich the lecture and discussion, those who pre-register will be emailed a copy of this article/ book chapter.

Dr. Kavaler-Adler will also discuss the theories of Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Donald W. Winnicott, and other British theorists, in relation to this haunting internal world that we all carry with us to more or less an extent. Those attending can become active participants in the discussion of the immediate “in vivo” clinical experience via a role-play demonstration, which will follow the lecture.

All inquiries about institute classes, programs, and requirements will be encouraged following the role-play.  For more information, please visit http://orinyc.org/open.html or contact ORI’s administrator by email to admin@orinyc.org  (or call 646-522-0387 and leave a message; someone will call you back within 24 hrs).

Summer 2015 ORI’s Open House and Interactive Lecture on Fear of Intimacy – will be held on Sunday, 7/19/15 (1-4 pm).

Location: 115 East 9th street, 12P, NYC, 10003 – Virtual participation is offered via gotomeeting platform

Everyone is welcome! Refreshments will be served. No fee, but RSVP is required!

We all have fears of intimacy, whatever their individual nature.  Why does intimacy scare people so much?  Don’t people want warmth, closeness and understanding?  So what so often gets in the way?

In working with people in psychotherapy, we see kinds of fears and sometimes, actual terrors, of intimacy.  There are both unconscious and conscious fears that people reveal.  People are afraid of needing another with whom they are intimate, and of losing their autonomy and their own separate voice in a relationship that approaches intimacy.  They are afraid of being possessed by a controlling girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse, especially if their natural developing autonomy was opposed in their childhood.  Some people also fear exposure to another who they fear might use knowledge about their emotional needs and vulnerabilities to ridicule them in a contemptuous manner.  They don’t realize that anyone who would mock them for their vulnerabilities, and for their exposed failings, shame, and needs, in the intimate revelations of a relationship, are actually envious of them, or are repeating the ridicule that their partner had actually experienced themselves within their own childhood.

There are of course even deeper fears as well:  terrors of losing the one they have revealed themselves to during a period of intimacy.  They fear unrequited love, but more deeply fear abandonment and fear the suffering of a broken heart and of extreme loss.  At an even deeper level people can fear losing their own identify and their own separate subjective experience of themselves when they surrender to another knowing them.  Also, they can fear that the other will define them, as “the fat one,” “the sensitive one,” “the difficult one,” or “the selfish one” (if one expressed an opinion that was her own, different from one’s parents or her sibling).

Fear of intimacy can pronounce itself in a form of creative (writing) blocks, although – on the surface – they had nothing to do with intimacy, as one can block conscious process of thinking and feeling by repressing anger that stems from his/her fear of intimacy, fear of rejection and abandonment.

Sometimes, fear of intimacy shows up as a “judgmental” character – when one judges others before they can judge him/her. Such a person can set oneself up in a situation of “damn if one did or didn’t,” developing a need of a “judging another,” who would reject him/her. So, they push the other away before they can be pushed away first.

As we encounter fear of intimacy in the clinical situation, we understand that the current fears of intimacy (and the accompanying defenses against intimacy) go back to early situations.  Therefore, the resolution of intimacy problems involves conscious awareness of the unconscious situations of the past that create the fears, and of fears of the power of one’s own emotional needs and of one’s defensive aggression.  This awareness needs to come from a deep feeling level where one’s emotional fears and their conflicting needs are felt.  Also, mourning the grief of losses from the past allows for the lessening of fears of loss, rejection, and of being stuck with a controlling person who repeats the controlling behavior of others in one’s vulnerable child and early adult life.   If one can mourn losses, regrets, and disappointments one can face intimacy with others in the future more fully, rather than being unconsciously controlled by fears of losing others or of being possessed by others.

Following the lecture and discussion, a role-play demonstration will be offered.  Those attending can become active participants in the discussion of the immediate “in vivo” clinical experience.

All inquiries about institute classes, programs, and requirements will be encouraged following the role-play. 

Those who RSVP for the Open House will receive a copy of Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s paper on “Fear of Intimacy” (published as a book chapter in 2013 Karnac book Fear: A Dark Shadow Across Our Life Span, edited by Dr. Salman Akhtar).

Object Relations theory has been particularly necessary to understand those who have early developmental arrest within their first three years of life, when the basic core self structure is forming.

At this Fall 2015 Open House, Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler will address the phenomena of Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid conditions in developmental object relations terms.  She will speak about the different psychic structure character formations, and how they require different psychotherapeutic approaches.  She will also speak about self-integration, psychic structure internalization, and separation-individuation – in relation to the psychoanalytic psychotherapist’s capacities to process dissociated trauma, since this dissociated trauma impacts the therapist as “objective countertransference” (Donald Winnicott) and as “projective-identification” (Melanie Klein, Heinz Racker, Wilfred Bion, and Paula Heimann).  She will speak about how every psychotherapist can be helped with the difficult task of processing projective identification and “objective” or induced countertransference through an object relations mode of supervision. This supervision involves “in vivo” clinical experience in the form of “role-plays” as well as in the form of “meditative visualization.” 

As primal trauma and its sadomasochistic enactments are understood, rather than reacted to in a retaliatory manner, each therapist in this supervision learns about the clinical technique spoken about by D. W. Winnicott as “object survival.”  Through survival of primitive aggressive reenactments, patients can begin to tolerate containing their own experience (Wilfred Bion on the “container” and the “contained”).  Then the therapist can begin to interpret the compulsive primitive enactments that were formerly too traumatically overwhelming to discuss. 

Once the patient/client/analysand comes to contain their inner compulsive reenactments, rather than to act them out in a dissociated way, they move from more primitive psychic state of being (Melanie Klein’s “paranoid-schizoid position”) to a more advanced one (Klein’s “depressive position”).   Then, symbolization naturally develops along with all the organically evolving ego functions, and internal psychic space and transitional space (Winnicott) allow the person to become an “interpreting subject” (Thomas Ogden), as well as to receive new “internalizations.”  The patient begins to receive interpretations, rather than experience them as an invasive persecutory assault.  At the same time, the therapist interprets how persecutory they are perceived when making interpretations. 

Can they then interpret being a Kleinian “toilet breast” as well as a persecutory “bad object” (as the Kleinians do)?  Through all this, the therapist learns how to be there with a patient, who by developmental necessity must mourn the loss of an early symbiotic object (prior to the developmental trauma).  Developmental mourning (Susan Kavaler-Adler) precedes, from the core self and object loss to later losses.  This understanding of mourning overlaps with James Masterson’s “abandonment depression.”  Without the working through of the “abandonment depression,” the patient seeks addictive highs that regressively return them to the “reunion fantasy” (James Masterson and Margaret Mahler) of being one again with the symbiotic mother (fused together with the mother in a split off “grandiose self” structure in the narcissistic character pathology).

The role-play will be used to demonstrate how the therapist responds, moment to moment, to the patient’s developmental trauma enactment, and intervenes with empathic attunement, within the “in vivo” clinical process.  One of the Open House participants will have the opportunity to volunteer and play the role of his/ her patient, to get inside of their patient’s internal experience, with Dr. Kavaler-Adler who will role-play the object relations psychoanalyst. 

9.0 Contact Hours will be awarded for the full program

Total Fee: NYSSCSW members: $120.00; Non-members: $180.00. Registration – only through ACE Foundation – at

http://www.ace-foundation.net/Event.aspx?id=41

This course offers an in-depth journey to understanding of developmental evolution of psychoanalytic work with the erotic transference. Being seen as a resistance in psychoanalytic work, rather than the manifestation of the primal unconscious longings, the erotic transference needs to be understood in object relations terms both, as a transitional object relationship and as a psychic fantasy evolution. This evolution is a multi-dimensional mourning process, which is motivated intrapsychically and developmentally. Participants of this course will learn to see erotic transference as a journey from protosymbolic enactment to symbolic passion and poetic self-expression. They will be able to distinguish the patient with protosymbolic visceral and behavioral enactments from the neurotic patient with oedipal love symbolization and oedipal level of conflicts. Both homosexual and heterosexual aspects of erotic transference will be addressed, as well as countertransference phenomena see in the light of the patient’s developmental evolution.

​Class #1. The first week will focus on erotic transference in relation to a case described by Dr. Kavaler-Adler in her 1992 article on “Mourning and Erotic Transference.”  The lecture and discussion will concern with how a whole repressed part of a patient can be unearthed, and brought to full and passionate consciousness through a sensitivity to preoedipal  object mourning, combined with oedipal level transference work (3 and 4 times a week).

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (1992).  Mourning and erotic transference.  International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 73 (3), 527-239. (This article won the Arlene R. Wohlberg Memorial Award,)

Learning Goals:

1. Participants will be able to provide 1-3 examples of the mourning as a developmental process, which can include the transferential phenomena of erotic transference.
2. Participants will be able to recognize and synthesize the ideas of mourning preoedipal loss as a necessity for the full flowering of a contained and symbolized erotic transference, as well as provide 2 examples from their own practice or from the readings.

Class #2. The second week will include a lecture and a discussion related to another journal article of Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s on work with a Lesbian woman on her intense homoerotic transference within an overall psychoanalytic treatment (3 times a week). There will be a focus on how the patient traveled, developmentally, from protosymbolic (or presymbolic) experience to that of symbolic expression, through the avenue of the homoerotic transference, with all its rich internal world fantasy life.  The varying forms of self and other erotic fantasy constellations will be discussed, along with a focus on the transformation of enacted romantic gift giving to symbolic gift giving – through verbal expression.

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2003).  Lesbian homoerotic transference in dialectic with developmental mourning: On the way to symbolism from the protosymbolic. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 20(1), 131-152.  (This article won the Arlene R. Wohlberg Memorial Award, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health)

Learning Goals:

1. Participants will be able to identify homoerotic fantasies within an overall transference and symbolization process and bring two examples (hypothetical and/or from readings or from their own practice or training).
2. Participants will be able to offer 1-2 examples of their own application of awareness of female homoerotic transference fantasies to working in a developmental way in the psychoanalytic treatment.

Class #3. The third week will be related to work with a character disordered patient, who developed from psychic arrest (as in Klein’s paranoid-schizoid position) to increasing capacities to integrate and relate (as in Klein’s depressive position).  Along the way, she demonstrated an intense part- object eroticized transference that transformed into oedipal level whole-object and differentiated homoerotic and erotic transference.  The chapter written on her case by Dr. Kavaler-Adler illustrates how opening the formerly blocked avenues to erotic desire allowed the patient (client) to be able to contain formerly overwhelming instinctual impulses, which had been expressed in an oral form of “biting” verbal sadistic and sarcastic attacks on the analyst in the transference.

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (1998).  Vaginal core or vampire mouth:  the visceral level of envy in women:   the protosymbolic politics of object relations.  In N. Burke (Ed.), Gender and Envy,

London: Routledge.

Learning Goals:

1. Participants will identify 1-2 examples of polarization of erotic desire and defensive preoedipal oral sadism in the readings provided in the class, as well as any other readings on the topic.
2. Participants will role-play of potential therapeutic situation of helping the client to express their desires in words in the transference, so that oral sadism can be neutralized and modified.

Class #4. The fourth class will involve the study of an in depth long term case in Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Mourning, Spirituality, and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis.  This is a case of a neurotic male patient, ‘Phillip’, who was capable of symbolizing his erotic transference desires from the beginning of treatment.  A view of Phillip’s conscious erotic fantasy will be discussed, as unconscious associations to the childhood mother emerge into consciousness through the free associations (of a neurotic patient).  Unlike the other discussed cases, Phillip knew he desired the female psychoanalyst as he had unconsciously desired his mother, when he was a young boy and even further back to infancy in his psychic fantasy.

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2003).  Mourning, spirituality, and psychic change: A new

object relations view of psychoanalysis.  London:  Routledge. (This book received 2004 Gradiva® Award from NAAP)

Learning Goals:

1. Using the assigned reading material, the participants will identify 2-3 examples of the male (neurotic level) patient making connections between his current erotic transference with his female analyst and his childhood sexual desires for his mother.
2. Participants will show their understanding of how patients with various level of psychic functioning deal with their erotic transference – by utilizing the role-play technique.

Class #5. The fifth class will focus on all the developmental avenues to symbolization through the conscious subjective experience of erotic transference, following the unconscious dissociated experience of both eroticized (part-object) transference and full (whole-object) erotic transference.

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2014).  Erotic transference: A journey to passion and symbolization. MindConsiliums, 14(1), 19-43.

Learning goal:

Participants will identify erotic transference phenomena in its developmental manifestations – in the assigned reading, so that erotic fantasy contained in the transference relationships can be seen as a route towards symbolization, not as a transference resistance.

Class #6. This class will focus on homoerotic transference in the heterosexual woman, which is described in the in-depth case of ‘June’ in Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Mourning, Spirituality, and Psychic Change. This case discussion will be accompanied by an experiential role play.

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2003).  Mourning, spirituality, and psychic change: A new object relations view of psychoanalysis.  London: Routledge.

Learning goals:

1. Participants will identify homoerotic transference in a heterosexual person as a transitional phase in treatment, on the way to oedipal level erotic transference – in the assigned reading.
2. Participants will provide examples of homoerotic transference in a heterosexual person – via the role play or discussion of their own case example.

Instructor:  Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA is the founder, executive director, training analyst and a senior supervisor, as well as the advisor to the Training Committee of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ORI). Dr. Kavaler-Adler is a diplomate and a fellow of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and an active member of the Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the APA.  She has 40 years’ experience in object relations psychoanalytic practice, specializing in psychotrauma, grief and mourning of losses, blocks to creativity and intimacy, erotic transference, self-sabotage, fears of success, love addiction, inhibitions, compulsions, demon lover addictions, haunting regrets, repetitive issues, betrayal in love, body awareness, etc. Dr. Kavaler-Adler is a prolific author, with five books(published with Routledge, Karnac, and ORI Academic Press) and over sixty peer-reviewed articles and books chapters.  She has received 15 awards for her writing in the field of psychoanalysis, including the Gradiva® Award form NAAP in 2004.

For more information, and to register, visit http://www.ace-foundation.net/Event.aspx?id=41

Advanced Clinical Education Foundation of the NYSSCSW, Inc., SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0056.

When: June 26th, Saturday, 1-3pm (with the ORI’s Open House following it, from 3 pm to 5 pm)

Where: 115 East 9th Street, 12P, NY, NY 10003    or VIRTUALLY (ask for the log-in information by email to admin@orinyc.org)

This workshop will have a precise clinical focus. Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler will present two profound resolved cases of anorexia and bulimia, which were described as case studies in her earlier clinical writings. The workshop participants will get the understanding about eating disorders being directly related to an internal world where an envious, hungry Mother resides.  This kind of Internal Mother has disrupted and arrested the person’s self-integration and separation-individuation processes.

The resolution of developmental trauma, which involves a “developmental mourning process” in treatment, and a clear look at the “demon lover complex,” within the internal world, as well as the blocked erotic desires that are part and parcel of arrested “developmental mourning” and the “demon lover complex”- will be illustrated and discussed.

The role of symptomatic compulsive spending, in the case of the bulimic, will be seen as transitional stage phenomena in the resolution of physical bulimia, and in the emergence of psychic bulimia in the transference.  The role of self-righteousness and contempt will be seen as manic defenses in the case of the anorexic.

These themes relate to the themes of discussion in Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s monthly and weekly supervision groups.  They also relate to her books and articles, and to her well known and original object relations theory.

For a taste of the topic, please visit The Object Relations View mini-video series on YouTube (http://youtu.be/XDSVKLJAAh0) and on ORI’s web site (http://orinyc.org/you.html), to watch the video (part 13) on Eating Disorders: The Object Relations View.

For those who want preparatory reading for this workshop, they can explore three of Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s clinical and literary books: Mourning, Spirituality, and Psychic Change:  A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2003; won the 2004 Gradiva Award from NAAP); The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization in Vivid Case Studies (Karnac, 2013); and The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge 1993, Other Press 2000, ORI Academic Press, 2013).

Bio: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D. Litt., NCPsyA is in practice as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst for almost 40 years. She is the founder and executive director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she serves as the training and supervising analyst, and senior faculty member, after teaching and supervising for many other institutes, including NIP.  Dr. Kavaler-Adler offers private monthly and weekly supervision and writing groups, and virtual (Internet-based) supervision groups, and a monthly intensive psychotherapy and mourning group, where she employs guided meditative visualizations for group sharing.  Dr. Kavaler-Adler also does much individual supervision, psychotherapy and creative writing consultations.  She is a prolific author, with five published books and over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and edited book chapters. Dr. Kavaler-Adler is the recipient of 12 awards for her writing in the field of psychoanalysis.   For more information about her practice, publications, and speaking engagements, visit www.kavaleradler.com  Dr. Kavaler-Adler can be contacted by email, drkavaleradler@gmail.com or phone 212-674-5425.

9.0 Contact Hours will be awarded for the full program

Total Fee: NYSSCSW members: $120.00; Non-members: $180.00. Registration – only through ACE Foundation – at

http://www.ace-foundation.net/Event.aspx?id=41

This course offers an in-depth journey to understanding of developmental evolution of psychoanalytic work with the erotic transference. Being seen as a resistance in psychoanalytic work, rather than the manifestation of the primal unconscious longings, the erotic transference needs to be understood in object relations terms both, as a transitional object relationship and as a psychic fantasy evolution. This evolution is a multi-dimensional mourning process, which is motivated intrapsychically and developmentally. Participants of this course will learn to see erotic transference as a journey from protosymbolic enactment to symbolic passion and poetic self-expression. They will be able to distinguish the patient with protosymbolic visceral and behavioral enactments from the neurotic patient with oedipal love symbolization and oedipal level of conflicts. Both homosexual and heterosexual aspects of erotic transference will be addressed, as well as countertransference phenomena see in the light of the patient’s developmental evolution.

​Class #1. The first week will focus on erotic transference in relation to a case described by Dr. Kavaler-Adler in her 1992 article on “Mourning and Erotic Transference.”  The lecture and discussion will concern with how a whole repressed part of a patient can be unearthed, and brought to full and passionate consciousness through a sensitivity to preoedipal  object mourning, combined with oedipal level transference work (3 and 4 times a week).

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (1992).  Mourning and erotic transference.  International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 73 (3), 527-239. (This article won the Arlene R. Wohlberg Memorial Award,)

Learning Goals:

1. Participants will be able to provide 1-3 examples of the mourning as a developmental process, which can include the transferential phenomena of erotic transference.
2. Participants will be able to recognize and synthesize the ideas of mourning preoedipal loss as a necessity for the full flowering of a contained and symbolized erotic transference, as well as provide 2 examples from their own practice or from the readings.

Class #2. The second week will include a lecture and a discussion related to another journal article of Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s on work with a Lesbian woman on her intense homoerotic transference within an overall psychoanalytic treatment (3 times a week). There will be a focus on how the patient traveled, developmentally, from protosymbolic (or presymbolic) experience to that of symbolic expression, through the avenue of the homoerotic transference, with all its rich internal world fantasy life.  The varying forms of self and other erotic fantasy constellations will be discussed, along with a focus on the transformation of enacted romantic gift giving to symbolic gift giving – through verbal expression.

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2003).  Lesbian homoerotic transference in dialectic with developmental mourning: On the way to symbolism from the protosymbolic. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 20(1), 131-152.  (This article won the Arlene R. Wohlberg Memorial Award, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health)

Learning Goals:

1. Participants will be able to identify homoerotic fantasies within an overall transference and symbolization process and bring two examples (hypothetical and/or from readings or from their own practice or training).
2. Participants will be able to offer 1-2 examples of their own application of awareness of female homoerotic transference fantasies to working in a developmental way in the psychoanalytic treatment.

Class #3. The third week will be related to work with a character disordered patient, who developed from psychic arrest (as in Klein’s paranoid-schizoid position) to increasing capacities to integrate and relate (as in Klein’s depressive position).  Along the way, she demonstrated an intense part- object eroticized transference that transformed into oedipal level whole-object and differentiated homoerotic and erotic transference.  The chapter written on her case by Dr. Kavaler-Adler illustrates how opening the formerly blocked avenues to erotic desire allowed the patient (client) to be able to contain formerly overwhelming instinctual impulses, which had been expressed in an oral form of “biting” verbal sadistic and sarcastic attacks on the analyst in the transference.

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (1998).  Vaginal core or vampire mouth:  the visceral level of envy in women:   the protosymbolic politics of object relations.  In N. Burke (Ed.), Gender and Envy,

London: Routledge.

Learning Goals:

1. Participants will identify 1-2 examples of polarization of erotic desire and defensive preoedipal oral sadism in the readings provided in the class, as well as any other readings on the topic.
2. Participants will role-play of potential therapeutic situation of helping the client to express their desires in words in the transference, so that oral sadism can be neutralized and modified.

Class #4. The fourth class will involve the study of an in depth long term case in Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Mourning, Spirituality, and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis.  This is a case of a neurotic male patient, ‘Phillip’, who was capable of symbolizing his erotic transference desires from the beginning of treatment.  A view of Phillip’s conscious erotic fantasy will be discussed, as unconscious associations to the childhood mother emerge into consciousness through the free associations (of a neurotic patient).  Unlike the other discussed cases, Phillip knew he desired the female psychoanalyst as he had unconsciously desired his mother, when he was a young boy and even further back to infancy in his psychic fantasy.

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2003).  Mourning, spirituality, and psychic change: A new

object relations view of psychoanalysis.  London:  Routledge. (This book received 2004 Gradiva® Award from NAAP)

Learning Goals:

1. Using the assigned reading material, the participants will identify 2-3 examples of the male (neurotic level) patient making connections between his current erotic transference with his female analyst and his childhood sexual desires for his mother.
2. Participants will show their understanding of how patients with various level of psychic functioning deal with their erotic transference – by utilizing the role-play technique.

Class #5. The fifth class will focus on all the developmental avenues to symbolization through the conscious subjective experience of erotic transference, following the unconscious dissociated experience of both eroticized (part-object) transference and full (whole-object) erotic transference.

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2014).  Erotic transference: A journey to passion and symbolization. MindConsiliums, 14(1), 19-43.

Learning goal:

Participants will identify erotic transference phenomena in its developmental manifestations – in the assigned reading, so that erotic fantasy contained in the transference relationships can be seen as a route towards symbolization, not as a transference resistance.

Class #6. This class will focus on homoerotic transference in the heterosexual woman, which is described in the in-depth case of ‘June’ in Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Mourning, Spirituality, and Psychic Change. This case discussion will be accompanied by an experiential role play.

Reading:

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2003).  Mourning, spirituality, and psychic change: A new object relations view of psychoanalysis.  London: Routledge.

Learning goals:

1. Participants will identify homoerotic transference in a heterosexual person as a transitional phase in treatment, on the way to oedipal level erotic transference – in the assigned reading.
2. Participants will provide examples of homoerotic transference in a heterosexual person – via the role play or discussion of their own case example.

Instructor:  Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA is the founder, executive director, training analyst and a senior supervisor, as well as the advisor to the Training Committee of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ORI). Dr. Kavaler-Adler is a diplomate and a fellow of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and an active member of the Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the APA.  She has 40 years’ experience in object relations psychoanalytic practice, specializing in psychotrauma, grief and mourning of losses, blocks to creativity and intimacy, erotic transference, self-sabotage, fears of success, love addiction, inhibitions, compulsions, demon lover addictions, haunting regrets, repetitive issues, betrayal in love, body awareness, etc. Dr. Kavaler-Adler is a prolific author, with five books(published with Routledge, Karnac, and ORI Academic Press) and over sixty peer-reviewed articles and books chapters.  She has received 15 awards for her writing in the field of psychoanalysis, including the Gradiva® Award form NAAP in 2004.

For more information, and to register, visit http://www.ace-foundation.net/Event.aspx?id=41

Advanced Clinical Education Foundation of the NYSSCSW, Inc., SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0056.

The Open House on 10/08/2016 featured the brief lecture of the nature of blocks to self expression related to writing, speaking, and authentic communicating – by ORI’s Executive Director and Founder, Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler, who is also a prolific author and the object relations theorist.  Dr. Kavaler-Adler will reference Freud, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Klein, and her own work, in terms of explaining the nature of blocks to “finding and sustaining one’s true self voice, and opening paths to success.”  Using her 40 years expertise in working analytically with writers and psychological blocks to their writing, as well as working with the developmental mourning process, Dr. Kavaler-Adler will speak about the psychodynamics of obstacles to writing, success, and communication that are so clearly understood in object relations terms.  She will also speak of the unconscious fantasies that block someone from finding their own voice, such as the fantasies of a male muse in female writers, which is so different from the female muse in male writers.  You can hear more of this in Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s 2^nd podcast interview on “New Books in Psychoanalysis” on “The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers” (Routledge, 1993; ORI Academic Press, 2013). Follow the link here: http://newbooksnetwork.com/susan-kavaler-adler-the-compulsion-to-create-women-writers-and-their-demon-lovers-ori-academic-2013/  The renowned Dr. Martin Bergmann noted Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s original ideas on this in his Foreword to one of her other books related to creative process, “The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity” (Routledge, 1996; ORI Academic Press, 2014).   Another unconscious fantasy to be discussed is that behind the terror of losing 2^nd Amendment rights in this country, and how this may relate to the blocked internal voice of the individual.

Workshop participation fee: $75 (preregistration)/ $85 (at the door); for student discount contact Dr. Kavaler-Adler @ drkavaleradler@gmail.com

To register and for questions, email to Dr. Kavaler-Adler at drkavaleradler@gmail.com or call 212-674-5425

Workshop Description:

In this workshop, the psychodynamics of the Fear of Success will be presented, on both oedipal and pre-oedipal levels.  There will be a particular focus on an object relations understanding of the preoedipal  terrors and conflicts underlying the multitude of inhibitions and self sabotage that relate to the fear of success.  The terror of abandonment and self annihilation will be discussed, as opposed to the fears of retaliatory aggression from an oedipal stage parental object, which is feared as a powerful competitor.  Winnicott’s “unthinkable anxieties” will be discussed, along side of James Masterson’s ideas on “abandonment depression”, and Susan Kavaler-Adler’s theory of the “demon lover complex” that can be symptomatic of an arrest in the separation-individuation process,  and self integration process, that are characteristic of Developmental Mourning. 

Case examples will be offered, including the case described in Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s 2006 journal article “My graduation is my mother’s funeral:  Transformation from the paranoid-schizoid position to the depressive position in fear of success, and the role of the internal saboteur” (International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 15,  117-130). 

In the afternoon, an experiential group will be formed.  Each participant in the workshop will be asked to participate in a guided meditative visualization, led by Dr. Kavaler-Adler.  The meditative visualization experience is used repeatedly by Dr. Kavaler-Adler, for the last 20 years, in her monthly Mourning, Therapy, and Support Group.  Everybody closes their eyes and breathes, while being led through a dialogue (one or two times) with an internal other, who they speak to about their own Fear of Success, or about the Fear of Success of a patient/client.  Group members are then invited to share their experience with the group.  The interpersonal group then evolves in the “potential space” of the group, as group members empathize with , and resonate with, the others I the group as they speak.

Bio of the Workshop Leader: 

Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D. Litt., NCPsyA, is a Psychologist and Psychoanalyst with 40 years of clinical experience.  She is the Founder (with Dr. Robert Weinstein) and Executive Director of the Object Relations Institute (NYS chartered), where she has served for 25 years as a Training Analyst, Senior Supervisor, Faculty Member, President of the Board of Directors, and as Advisor to the Training Committee.

Dr. Kavaler-Adler is a prolific author who has five books and over 60 articles in the field of British and American Object Relations theory and Psychoanalysis, and has 15 awards for her writing (including the NAAP Gradiva Award in 2004)..  Dr. Kavaler-Adler is known for her theories of Developmental Mourning, the Demon Lover Complex, the Love-Creativity Dialectic, and the resolution of character pathology through the profound heart/soul grief of “psychic regret.”  Descriptions of her books and her supervision, therapy/mourning and writing groups (monthly and weekly, in person and on-line) can be viewed at www.kavaleradler.com  Her five published books are: “The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers” (Routledge, 1993, ORI Academic Press 2013, Forward by Joyce McDougall); “The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity: (Routledge 1996,ORI Academic Press 2014, Foreword by Martin Bergmann); “Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2003, Foreword by Joyce McDougall); “The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization in Vivid Case Studies” (Karnac 2013); “The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformational Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory” (Karnac 2014).

Learning Goals:  At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

1) Distinguish between oedipal and pre-Oedipal fears and conflicts, in relation to “The Fear of Success”;

2) Analyze the concrete versus the symbolic nature of the Internal World conflict in relation to Fear of Success;

3) Apply and share, in an experiential group, to process their own fears of success, and/or those of their clients.

Those who pre-register, will receive Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s article “My graduation is my mother’s funeral:  Transformation from the paranoid-schizoid position to the depressive position in fear of success, and the role of the internal saboteur” (International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 15,  117-130) – by email. 

For a taste of the topic, tune in to this 15-min free educational video:

When: Sunday, 4/23/17 (1:00 – 4:00 pm). 
Where: In-Person location: 115 East 9th street, 12P, NYC, 10003   Virtual participation will be available via gotomeeting platform (with minimal technical requirements)

Everyone is welcome! No fee, but RSVP is required! 
For more information about this open house and the virtual participation – please contact ORI’s administrator at 646-522-1056 or by email to admin@orinyc.org .

What to expect during this Open House?

Interactive Lecture on The Subjective Experience of Time: Time as Persecutory, Frozen, or Holding:  An Object Relations Perspective for Clinicians by Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA, ORI’s Executive Director

We can experience all our primal affect states in relation to TIME. Clocks may register an objective aspect of time, but internally, we are all living with the subjectivity of time. During the analytic session, time manifests for our patients as a transference object, along with other objects, such as their parents, siblings, etc. Some patients want to suspend the intrusion of objective time, and luxuriate in its holding qualities on the couch, allowing the unconscious to emerge. They may like the lights dim and the blinds drawn. Some are terrified of time as the intrusive persecutor, with its impossible demands, and its unrelenting mortality. Those are the ones with the big watches and the ocular search for the clocks in your consulting room. And then there are those who block their thoughts and feelings, and feel like time is a frozen ice breast that refuses to melt. Internal objects, which are persecutory, holding, or frozen, are projected into our fantasy images of the persona of time. What happens when time as an internal object becomes time as a transitional object?  Can we play with time?  Can time, when holding, suspend our subordination to our mortality? 

Befriending time, rather than to be persecuted by it, can evolve into the “eternal now” moment that challenges the linear time construction of our mortality.  It can become a clinical moment or an Argentine tango moment.  This is Winnicott’s “creativity of everyday life,” and we can only get there through Klein’s depressive position journey, through the healthy mourning of life’s “necessary losses.” 

Come join us to play with all these questions, cultivating the Winnicottian capacity to play and the Bionian moment “without memory or desire.” Dip into the internal world with us, and then travel to the transitional world through the open house experience of an in the moment clinical role-play, in which one of you will get inside the skin of one of your patients, will experience the patient’s being from the inside/out, and will dialogue with Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler, who will play the part of the analyst in the role-play.        

Reference to read before or after the Open House: 

Kavaler-Adler, S. (2014). Dialectics of mortality and immortality: Time as an internal and transitional object experience and time as a persecutory vs. a holding object. Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35(1), 37-61. (can be found at

http://www.mindconsiliums.org/publications/2013/12/2013-12-Kavaler-Adler-dialectics-of-mortality-and-immortality-time.pdf

The Advanced Clinical Education Foundation of NYCCSCW Presents:

6-week course; weekly meetings

Presentor: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, DLitt, NCPsyA
Time: Mondays, 8:15pm-9:30 pm, on June 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017; July 10 & 17, 2017
Location: Office of Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, DLitt, NCPsyA:
115 East 9th Street (between 3rd and 4th Ave); 12P, NY, NY 10003

7.5 Contact Hours Will Be Awarded for This Program. (CEUs are approved for LMSW, LCSW and LP in NYS, but not in NJ)

This course will provide an in depth study of The Dark Side of Creativitywhich is a topic that addresses the compulsion to create in those who live perpetually in a haunted internal world, after suffering early pre-oedipal trauma that prevents them from mourning and healing in their work. Their self, and the creative process, which defines them, become victim to the demon lover complex, which can be explained, in object relations terms, as a pathological mourning state, in which one is addicted to eroticized bad objects due to the lack of sufficient good object internalization during the first three years of life (when the self is first forming).

The repetition of trauma (rather than the resolution of mourning) has detrimental effect, when it is contrasted with creative people who reach the oedipal stage without primal trauma. The other side of The Dark Side of Creativity is related to blocks to creativity that can also involve trauma, but where repression is a major factor, beyond the splitting and dissociation that are seen in cases of the compulsion to create.

For those who cannot attend in person we offer VIRTUAL ATTENDANCE: anyone can attend virtually, through the GoToMeeting platform. A technical person will be there to set up for online participants, and for filming the classes. All forms can be sent in online.

If someone has to miss a class, they can get the film of the class, and they can write a one page email summary of the class materials (readings and film), to have a full credit. However, they will not receive CEU credit for the missed class.

Office holds 12 people, but virtual online participation allows for up to additional 25 participants in the class. Course will benefit clinicians at all levels of experience.

Please note: Participants of this course are responsible to read each weekly reading!

Registration Fees/Cancellation: Cancellation received at least (5) days before the event will be fully refundable. On-line registration ONLY – Visa and Mastercard accepted.

NYSSCSW Member $120. Non-Members $180.

Who Should Attend: psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, art therapists. Contact Hours will be awarded once the entire course is completed. Certificates will be emailed approximately ten business days after the completion of the course. For questions regarding course content, registration and disability access please Contact Kristin or Jennifer: info.acefoundation@gmail.com. In the event of any grievance please contact Dr. Susan Klett, LCSW-R, BCD, Director of Professional Development at SuzanneKlett@aol.com

The Advanced Clinical Education Foundation of NYCCSCW Presents:

6-week course; weekly meetings

Presentor: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, DLitt, NCPsyA
Time: Mondays, 8:15pm-9:30 pm, on June 5, 12, 19, 26, 2017; July 10 & 17, 2017
Location: Office of Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, DLitt, NCPsyA:
115 East 9th Street (between 3rd and 4th Ave); 12P, NY, NY 10003

7.5 Contact Hours Will Be Awarded for This Program. (CEUs are approved for LMSW, LCSW and LP in NYS, but not in NJ)

This course will provide an in depth study of The Dark Side of Creativitywhich is a topic that addresses the compulsion to create in those who live perpetually in a haunted internal world, after suffering early pre-oedipal trauma that prevents them from mourning and healing in their work. Their self, and the creative process, which defines them, become victim to the demon lover complex, which can be explained, in object relations terms, as a pathological mourning state, in which one is addicted to eroticized bad objects due to the lack of sufficient good object internalization during the first three years of life (when the self is first forming).

The repetition of trauma (rather than the resolution of mourning) has detrimental effect, when it is contrasted with creative people who reach the oedipal stage without primal trauma. The other side of The Dark Side of Creativity is related to blocks to creativity that can also involve trauma, but where repression is a major factor, beyond the splitting and dissociation that are seen in cases of the compulsion to create.

For those who cannot attend in person we offer VIRTUAL ATTENDANCE: anyone can attend virtually, through the GoToMeeting platform. A technical person will be there to set up for online participants, and for filming the classes. All forms can be sent in online.

If someone has to miss a class, they can get the film of the class, and they can write a one page email summary of the class materials (readings and film), to have a full credit. However, they will not receive CEU credit for the missed class.

Office holds 12 people, but virtual online participation allows for up to additional 25 participants in the class. Course will benefit clinicians at all levels of experience.

Please note: Participants of this course are responsible to read each weekly reading!

Registration Fees/Cancellation: Cancellation received at least (5) days before the event will be fully refundable. On-line registration ONLY – Visa and Mastercard accepted.

NYSSCSW Member $120. Non-Members $180.

Who Should Attend: psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, art therapists. Contact Hours will be awarded once the entire course is completed. Certificates will be emailed approximately ten business days after the completion of the course. For questions regarding course content, registration and disability access please Contact Kristin or Jennifer: info.acefoundation@gmail.com. In the event of any grievance please contact Dr. Susan Klett, LCSW-R, BCD, Director of Professional Development at SuzanneKlett@aol.com

Tuition fees: $45 for non-members, $35 for APC members & seniors, and $10 for students (with valid ID)

As an object relations theorist, Dr. Kavaler-Adler will integrate critical object relations thinking about self-development with Jungian perspectives, to contrast two brilliant women artists, one of which was derailed by the demon lover complex, and the other – was not. Presenter will draw on two of her major studies of famous women artists from within – from The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity (Routledge, 1996; ORI Academic Press, 2014).

The brilliant but tortured American poet Anne Sexton never integrated key aspects of herself. Instead, Sexton became entrapped in manic-erotic attachments to idealized abusive animus figures. These “demon lovers” emerged as idealized muses within her internal world, only to fall from grace in a vicious cycle. Muses perpetually turned into demon lovers, everywhere – in her life, art, and mind.  Without the development of a relationship with a primal chthonic anima, Sexton became entrapped in an echo chamber of muse figures that turned into “demon lovers.” Ultimately, her Image of death became her personal demon lover, as she proceeded to eroticize death. Instead of a dialectic with a disillusioning muse, she “married” her demon lover and committed suicide. Her early object relations developmental failings set her up to have an animus crush her anima, and prevented her from engaging the healing process of “developmental mourning” (term coined by Dr. Kavaler-Adler, 1993)

In sharp contrast to Anne Sexton is the healthy woman artist Suzanne Farrell, the former prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet, who became the “favorite” of George Balanchine, the executive director. Due to a primal related mother, Suzanne Farrell was able to survive the demonic aspects of an external muse figure, George Balanchine. Such survival depended upon Farrell’s ability to sustain a view of Balanchine within her internal world, as neither a muse god nor a demon. Her ability to mourn object disillusionment allowed for a psychological flexibility that extended her performing artist self into the nurturing and inter-generationally generative realm of teaching.          

Bio of the presenter:

Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA has published six books and over 70 articles, and has won 16 awards for psychoanalytic writing.  Her books The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge 1993, ORI Academic Press 2013); Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2003, Gradiva® Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis); The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization in Vivid Case Studies (Karnac 2013); and The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory (Karnac 2014), along with “The Creative Mystique….” are well known. Her comprehensive textbook of object relations theory terms, with clinical case examples, is being finalized for publishing in 2018.

Dr. Kavaler-Adler has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (1974) from  Adelphi University’s Gordon Derner Institute, a Psychoanalyst certificate from NIP (1981), and is a Training analyst, and Senior Supervisor; who also has an honorary doctorate in Literature (Ignatius University, 2008).  She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and a Fellow of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABPP).

Dr. Kavaler-Adler will be signing the following authored books:

• The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers
  Routledge, 1993; OtherPress, 2000; ORI Academic Press, 2013
• The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity
  Routledge, 1996; ORI Academic Press, 2014
• Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis
  Routledge, 2003
• The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization through Vivid Clinical Cases
  Karnac, 2013
• The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory
  Karnac, 2014
• Saturday Nights at Lafayette Grill: True Tales and Gossips of the NY City Argentine Tango Scene
  MindMend Publishing, 2016

When: Sunday, 4/29/18 (1:00 – 4:00 pm) 
Where: In-Person location: 115 East 9th street, 12P, NYC, 10003   Virtual participation will be available via gotomeeting platform (with minimal technical requirements)

Everyone is welcome! No fee, but RSVP is required! 
For more information about this open house and the virtual participation – please contact ORI’s administrator at 646-522-1056 or by email to admin@orinyc.org .

This Open House will feature the interactive lecture on

Object Relations theory has been particularly necessary to understand those who have early developmental arrest within their first three years of life, when the basic core self structure is forming. At this Spring 2018 Open House, Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler will address the phenomena of Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid conditions in developmental object relations terms.  She will speak about the different psychic structure character formations, and how they require different psychotherapeutic approaches. She will also speak about self-integration, psychic structure internalization, and separation-individuation – in relation to the psychoanalytic psychotherapist’s capacities to process dissociated trauma, since this dissociated trauma impacts the therapist as “objective countertransference” (Donald Winnicott) and as “projective-identification” (Melanie Klein, Heinz Racker, Wilfred Bion, and Paula Heimann).

Dr. Kavaler-Adler will speak about how every psychotherapist can be helped with the difficult task of processing projective identification and “objective” or induced countertransference through an object relations mode of supervision. This supervision involves “in vivo” clinical experience in the form of “role-plays” as well as in the form of “meditative visualization.” As primal trauma and its sadomasochistic enactments are understood, rather than reacted to in a retaliatory manner, each therapist in this supervision learns about the clinical technique spoken about by D. W. Winnicott as “object survival.”

Through survival of primitive aggressive reenactments, patients can begin to tolerate containing their own experience (read Wilfred Bion on the “container” and the “contained”). Then, the therapist can begin to interpret the compulsive primitive enactments that were formerly too traumatically overwhelming to discuss. Once the patient/client/analysand comes to contain their inner compulsive reenactments, rather than to act them out in a dissociated way, they move from more primitive psychic state of being (Melanie Klein’s “paranoid-schizoid position”) to a more advanced one (Klein’s “depressive position”).  Then, symbolization develops naturally, along with all the organically evolving ego functions; and internal psychic space and transitional space (Winnicott) allow the person to become an “interpreting subject” (Thomas Ogden), as well as to receive new “internalizations.” The patient begins to receive interpretations, rather than experience them as an invasive persecutory assault. At the same time, the therapist interprets how persecutory they are perceived, when making interpretations. Can they then interpret being a Kleinian “toilet breast,” as well as a persecutory “bad object” (as the Kleinians do)?

Through all this, the therapist learns how to be there with a patient, who (by developmental necessity) must mourn the loss of an early symbiotic object (prior to the developmental trauma). Developmental mourning (Susan Kavaler-Adler) precedes, from the core self and object loss to later losses. This understanding of mourning overlaps with James Masterson’s “abandonment depression.” Without the working through of the “abandonment depression,” the patient seeks addictive highs that regressively return them to the “reunion fantasy” (James Masterson and Margaret Mahler) of being one again with the symbiotic mother (fused together with the mother in a split-off “grandiose self” structure in the narcissistic character pathology).

The role-play will be used to demonstrate how the therapist responds, moment to moment, to the patient’s developmental trauma enactment, and intervenes with empathic attunement, within the “in vivo” clinical process.  One of the Open House participants will have the opportunity to volunteer and play the role of his/ her patient, to get inside of their patient’s internal experience, with Dr. Kavaler-Adler who will role-play the object relations psychoanalyst.

Then will be the time for all questions about the Object Relations Institute’s One-, Two-, and Four- year Certificate Training Programs.  Questions about the rich curriculum and high level faculty will be answered, along with questions about requirements for full psychoanalytic certificate training, and about requirements for one or two year educational certificates, which can be stepping stones to the full psychoanalytic training @ORI. 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.

Learn about special scholarships at the ORI! The ORI had established Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld Scholarship Fund, and since 2013-2014 academic year, we are offering scholarships to the social workers, mental health counselors, and other mental health professionals  who are interested in object relations psychoanalytic training.

Learn about our new Parent-Child Development Program, which includes our traditional courses – on works of Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Ronald Fairbairn, as well as the Infant Research course, and  some  newly introduced  courses on Child’s Play and the Neurobiology of  the Parent-Child Bonds.

In the meantime, please do not hesitate to call/email to:

Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, Institute’s Executive Director – at 212-674-5425; drkavaleradler@gmail.com
Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD, MBA, MSciEd, Administrator, Registrar, and Community Relations Coordinator – at 646-522-1056 or admin@ORINYC.org.

Educational Activities which will be discussed are:

Our Traditional and NEW – Virtual and Integrated – Certificate Programs
Our Traditional and NEW – Virtual and Integrated – Certificate Courses

Virtual programs are be offered via audio and video/audio meeting platform (with minimal requirements for a telephone and/or Internet connection).

ORI Community also enjoys the benefits of:

• Sliding fee scale therapy referral service for individuals, couples, adolescents, and children
• Professional networking and practice development
• Professional publishing and preparation for publishing
• Building the Cause (#361700) on Facebook: Support Mental Health Education
• Free educational mini video series “Object Relations View” – at our YouTube Channel, “ObjectRelations2009” (also available at www.ORINYC.org)

TWO-PART WORKSHOP

Sponsored by the Object Relations Institute

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

MORNING SESSION (10 AM – 1PM): 

INTERACTIVE LECTURE & DISCUSSION

TIME MANAGEMENT FROM THE INSIDE OUT involves experiential awareness of the psychological states that transform our perception of time on a moment to moment basis. What is the nature of the persoponas that we project onto objective linear time, from our internal worlds and from our multitudinous subjective feeling states? How can object relations theory help us to experience and understand the nature of these personas and their subjective phenomenon? When time is persecutory as opposed to holding, how has our internal world influenced our experience of time?  How is transitional space experienced within time so that the persecutions of linear time, deadlines, and our mortality are temporarily transformed into states of “eternal now” time?  How does the natural organic flow of time allow for personas of maternal holding to be projected?  How can time become frozen? How can we transform the perception of time as persecutory or frozen into time as holding? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in the morning lecture and discussion portion of this Saturday workshop. 

AFTERNOON SESSION (2 PM – 4PM):

EXPERIENTIAL GROUP with GUIDED MEDITATION and VISUALIZATION

In the afternoon, participants will engage in a guided meditation and group process that will allow each person to confront how they avoid prioritizing their passions in their planning and organization of time in their daily lives. Dr. Kavaler-Adler will employ a visualization process that she uses in her monthly Mourning, Therapy, and Support group. Each person will close their eyes and breathe, and then allow their internal personas to emerge for inner dialogues that can then be shared in the group. As they are guided to speak the affective truths from both their stomachs and hearts, group members can engage with the holding or persecutory parts of themselves, and their internal world, that influence their organization of time. They can speak to those within of their conflicts in relation to their planning of time for creative self expression, and for those relationships and activities in their life that allow for passionate engagement. They can speak to these internal others of their inhibitions, and of their downright oppositions to being fully present in Time so that passion and spontaneous self expression can emerge. They can speak of all the things they put in the way of this. After they speak to the two personas from their internal world, they can share their visualizations with the group, and speak to those in the transitional and analytic space in the group.   

For the bio of the workshop leader, CEUs, learning points, workshop fees,  and other information,visit  

http://orinyc.org/Time%20Management%20Inside%20Out,%20with%20Dr.%20Kavaler-Adler.html

Feel free to email drkavaleradler@gmail.com or admin@ORINYC.org, or call 212-674-5425 or 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year, Two-Year and the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)

Dates: October 4, 2018 – December 13, 2018, Thursdays, 8:40-9:55pm. 

Tuition: $450/ 10-week course/ trimester (can be paid in 2 installments, upon request). Registration: $25/course (waived for candidates in training) – can be paid by CC via PayPal – follow the link:PayPal.Me/ORINYC . Additional registration fee ($25) for non-candidates.

Location: 115 East 9^th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.

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 original readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Melanie Klein’s and Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Thomas Ogden and Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique – with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Learning Goals:

Upon the completion of this advanced level course, the participants will be able to:

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: internal psychic world, internal object relations, and the psychoanalytic dialogue;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: Instinct, phantasy, and psychological deep structure;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the depressive position and the birth of the historical subject;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the paranoid-schizoid position: self as object;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: transference, countertransference, erotic transference, projection and projective identifications;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: the difference between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive position;

Analyze and apply the basic terms and phenomena of the object relations theory, such as: potential space, transitional phenomena,  dream space, and analytic space.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOKs for the COURSE: 

1. The Matrix of the Mind, by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986).

2. The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler (published by Karnac, 2014).  Additional readings will be emailed.

Readings for weeks 1-6 are from T. Ogden’s book, The Matrix of the Mind:  

1^st Week:  Chapter 1, The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; and Chapter 2, Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object.

3^rd class:  Chapter 4, The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject.

4^th class:  Chapter 5, Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.

5^th class:  Chapter 7, The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.

6^th class:  Chapter 8, Potential Space,  and Chapter 9, Dream Space and Analytic Space.

Readings for weeks 7-9 are from S. Kavaler-Adler’s book, Klein-Winnicott Dialectic:

7^th class:  Chapter 1, Like Moses On the Way to the Promised Land: A Case of Pathological Mourning (pp. 1-26). This chapter is related to the interaction between Melanie Klein psychobiography/internal world and her major theories.  The chapter focuses on the British theorist’s history, and her mother’s personality.

8^th class: Chapter 2, Melanie Klein’s Creative Writing Revealing Themes in Her Life and Theorizing (pp. 27-42). This chapter is about Melanie Klein’s creative writing & creative process, and her Demon Lover Complex. Klein’s internal mother becomes a metapsychological theory of the Death Instinct: Death Instinct as Demon Lover.

9^th class: Chapter 6, Developmental Evolution in the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Psychic and Transitional Space (pp. 115-148). This is a a clinical chapter that illustrates the theory of transitional space and potential space in Winnicott and the theory of mourning in Klein.  The clinical examples integrate the clinical aspects of Klein’s and Winnicott’s theories, along with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s theory of developmental mourning.

10^th class:  a) Original paper of Melanie Klein, Mourning and Its Relation to Manic Depressive States, b) Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects, by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler  (Psychoanalytic Review, 2008).

Classes will consist of lecture and discussion on readings.  Some classes will have an experiential component, with a role play, where a student volunteers to role-play a patient, and Dr. Kavaler-Adler plays the psychoanalytic object relations therapist.

Some additional readings, such as original works of M. Klein and D. W. Winnicott will be offered and distributed via email.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.