Celebrating its 20th Anniversary of educating mental health professionals
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May11, 2012
Dear Visitors of the ORI's Web Site,
Note the Changes & Save the Dates for May-June 2012 ORI Events:
5/30/12 - 6/27/12 (5-weeks; Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm) - Individual Course - Advanced Dream Interpretation Course (with Margaret A. Yard, PhD, APRN, BC) (NEW!). Location: 160 East 84th Street, NYC. Fee: $250/ full course. CEs - upon request.
6/03/12 (Sunday, 12-4pm) - The Dark Side of Creativity - Workshop at the Arts Committee of NYSSCSW - by Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt. This presentation will focus on how psychopathology, when related to developmental arrest and character disorder, can trump the healthy and developmentally enhancing aspects of the creative process. Location: 248 West 71st Street (between Broadway and West End Avenue), NYC, 10023 Please call/ email Sandra Indig, LCSW-R, LP, ATRCB, Committee Chair, to reserve a seat – at 212-330-6787 or psych4arts@hotmail.com.
6/05/12 – 6/26/12 (4 weeks, Tuesdays, 8pm-9:30pm) - Individual Course - Neurobiology for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists – through Neuropsychiatric Clinical Cases (with Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD) (NEW!) ***This course will include previously scheduled workshop: How the Brain Tricks the Mind: Alien hand syndrome, Tourette’s, Capgras, Cotard Syndromes, and many more. Location - TBA. Fee: $200/ full course. Students and retired practitioners: $100/ full course.
6/10/12 (1-3:30pm) – ORI OPEN HOUSE! Discussion about our multiple and re-structured traditional and virtual training programs will be complemented by examples of therapeutic role-play with implementation of the object relations clinical technique. Location: 115 East 9th Street (1t 3rd Avenue), 12P, NYC, 10023. No fee. Refreshments will be served.
June 2012 (exact date TBA) – First Jeffrey Seinfeld’s Memorial Workshop/ Lecture: Exorcising Bad Objects.
Please, inquire more information by calling 646-522-0387, emailing to Admin@ORINYC.org, or visiting www.ORINYC.org . If researching Individual courses – click on “Individual Courses” tab; Certificate courses – corresponding “Cert Courses” tab; workshops – “Workshops” tab. All links to the events are available also at the “News” page of ORI’s web site. Thank you!
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‘There is no such thing as a baby...’ (D.W. Winnicott, 1975, Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, p. 89. London: Hogarth.).
“What does the baby see when he or she looks at the mother's face? I am suggesting that, ordinarily, what the baby sees is himself or herself. In other words themother is looking at the baby and what she looks like is related to what she sees there. All this is too easily taken for granted. I am asking that this which is naturally done well by mothers who are caring for their babies shall not be taken for granted. I can make my point by going straight over to the case of the baby whose mother reflects her own mood or, worse still, the rigidity of her own defences. In such a case what does the baby see?” (D.W. Winnicott, 1971, Playing and Reality, p.112. London: Tavistock).
“MY SQUIGGLE. HIS MODIFICATION. HIS COMMENT—A SEA-LION WITH A BABY.
It was astonishing to witness the way in which he immediately saw in it a mother and baby sea-lion. Subsequent events proved that it was justifiable to understand from this drawing that the boy had a powerful maternal identification; also that the mother-baby relationship was of especial importance to him. Moreover this picture has beauty, not indeed on account of the squiggle, but on account of his use of it.” (D.W. Winnicott, 1975, Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, p. 108. London: Hogarth.).
Those of you who were not able to attend our annual conference this year - watch this mini-video with the conference highlights:
Invitation to the Voyages into the Internal World:
Jungian, Kleinian, and Fairbairnian Perspectives on Self-Sabotage
By Inna Rozentsvit, ORI Press Editor
“For all of us there will be those irreconcilable injuries and humiliations that
persist and infiltrate into adult existence. They may become the seeds for those
monotonous repetitions of hurting others and getting hurt ourselves,... or the
leftover traumas can be incentives for innovation and change,... the opportunity
to rewrite the scripts, introduce a few new characters, get rid of one or two,
perhaps even change the ending, and free the lover and jester inside us all. It
didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want
of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from
want of love” (Louise Kaplan, 1984)
This is a report on a fascinating conference which took place on February 25th, 2012 at the Object Relations Institute, on the topic so modern and so ancient at the same time – the topic of self-sabotage. This report is compiled of the excerpts of all conference presentations, as it is intended to offer everyone the first-hand experience of this event.
Jeffrey Lewis, PhD (our conference host and moderator): Opening Remarks.
“I AM my own worst enemy… I can’t seem to get out of My Own way… I give great advice to others, but can’t do the same for Myself… How many times have you heard some variant of this (kerfuffle) expressed by a sincere yet perplexed patient confessing the hardest contest of all…the Golden Gloves boxing championship with oneself? This entire potentiality is mind-boggling - how can our psychological apparatus allow for the phenomenological experience of you harboring a stowaway, a stranger having gained access to your boat. A free-rider, not on the passenger registry, having passed security checks and now aboard in the cargo hold…ONLY, you are both the stowaway and the ship!”
Michael Vannoy Adams, DPhil., LCSW: The Archetype of the Self-Saboteur: Self-Sabotage from Jungian Perspective.
“… The internal saboteur is an internal aggressor and an internal persecutor. …For Fairbairn, the internal saboteur is not a “bad object” – or, in fact, any variety of object – but an anti-libidinal ego, the function of which is to attack the libidinal ego and, in the process, to repress objects. …It is the ego – or more specifically, one of three egos, an aggressive, persecutory ego – that, through repression, sabotages effective relations with objects. … In this respect, the internal saboteur is an exquisitely exact image that provides an eloquently precise description of the process by which the ego represses – or, more specifically, sabotages – what the unconscious attempts to express. The image “internal saboteur” is poetic. It is much more vivid, vital, and evocative than the concept “anti-libidinal ego,” which is prosaic. To me, the term “internal saboteur” is not just a rhetorical conceit. It is a superbly expressive term that enables psychoanalysts with a sensibility for subtleties, to visualize – and not just verbalize – the nuances of a process that is integral to the psyche.
Jung introduced into psychoanalytic discourse the terms “introversion” and “extraversion.” There is also, of course, “perversion.” Sabotage is “subversion.” To “subvert” means to “turn over from under.” Topographically, the unconscious is a subconscious. The unconscious is an “underconscious.” From under the ego, the unconscious attempts to overturn the ego. From the perspective of the ego, the unconscious is intrinsically subversive. No wonder the ego is so anxious and so defensive. Ultimately, the unconscious as such is a saboteur, for it attempts to sabotage – or to subvert – the partial, prejudicial attitude of the ego.
In the psyche, what sabotages what? Is it the ego that sabotages the unconscious, or is it the unconscious that sabotages the ego? To the extent that the ego is an internal saboteur, it sabotages the unconscious – that is, it represses what object relations psychoanalysts call “objects” or what Jungian psychoanalysts call “images.” Objects or images that emerge from the unconscious may also, however, sabotage the ego. To the anxious and defensive ego, objects or images may be internal saboteurs.”
Robinson Lilienthal, PhD: Many Shapes of the Self-saboteur – Philosophical Reflections.
“Over the time, the internal saboteurs take on many shapes. Early on, they disrupt our wishes, plans, and dreams. Then, they upset our lives, careers, relationships. Later, they keep us obstructed from our own true selves; they impede the development of what Freud called maturation, and what Jung called individuation. First as clues to our failures, they can later become the keys to unlocking the door to our final integral exfoliation, helping us in giving birth to the unique being each of us is.”
Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, DLitt: The Kleinian Perspective on Self-Sabotage – a Look at the Internal World and Its Internal Objects.
“In between the external world of interpersonal relations and the inchoate visceral and mental self we are born with, is the internal world of self and other enactments that are played out in our whole psychophysical being. These dynamic internal objects are often confused with external others who we project them onto, often reacting to our experience of others only through the internal dramas perpetuated from earliest infancy and childhood that are played out in our minds. When we wake up from the subliminal confusion of projection and introjection, we become “interpreting subjects” (Ogden, 1986) who realize we are always subjectively creating meanings out of our reactions to others outside of us. These meanings we create become interwoven with our beliefs and assumptions from those who we live with inside ourselves as dynamic “phantasy” objects.
…Unlike Fairbairn who thought internal objects were merely internally designed replicas of our primal external mother and parents, and distinct form but harmonious with Jung, who addressed innate archetype personifications in our collective unconscious psyche, Melanie Klein brought us into the overlapping realm of innate predispositions to engaging with others that become phantasy internal others—our internal objects—and the coloration of these internal phantasies by our external experiences with others, which become more related to the external reality of others with time and development. From a Kleinian perspective, just as our internal objects are colored by encountering external others, so too are external relationships perpetually colored by the subjective internal world of feelings. Such feelings emerge from instinctive impulses interpenetrating internal objects, and their representations, and are always linked to our interpretations of our experience of those others outside whom we encounter and gradually learn to love. We learn to love through awakening to distinctions between others outside our internal worlds and those dynamic phantoms within us, finding others separate from ourselves, who we discover are always interpreted by us through our internal object world, but who have an agency and vitality outside of that internal world.”
Jack Schwartz, LCSW, PsyD, NCPsyA: Dying to Be Seen – Fairbairnian Endoscopic System and the Self-Saboteur.
“Fairbairn developed a theory of endopsychic structure that completely reformulated psychoanalytic theory. In other words the outside experienced is internalized and structured into psychological affective constructs or components, which in turn are then expressed within the context of a relational experience and between the aspects of the components themselves. Thus, instead of seeing relationships as the result of drive discharge, tension reduction, his theory saw self-expression in the context of relational paradigms, specifically he postulated that the inherent human drive is to form relationships, make connections, as the foundation of all psychic functioning.
…It is in this place that the theology student, physician turned psychoanalyst Ronald W. Fairbairn begins - at the precipice of breaking the tie to the original object by reporting and recognizing what was happening in the consulting room... Historically, Fairbairn is mostly forgotten, repressed, and now resurrected and reconditioned into a myriad of other theories. It is in the spirit of Jeff Seinfeld, a modern champion of Fairbairn, that allows us revisit Fairbairn and to acknowledge his place at the table, as the transitional object of theoretical individuation that frees psychoanalysis from denial and antiquated systems.”
To request a copy of the full-conference film, please call 646-522-0387 or write to Admin@ORINYC.org.
March 8, 2012
Happy Women's Day!
December 26, 2011
Dear Friends,
On this “crossroad” day of the Holiday season, – the Day of Christmas, the 5th Day of Hanukkah, and a week before the New Year, – please accept our best and sincere wishes for health, happiness, peace, and joy for you and your loved ones all around the globe.
On this day, the spirit of hope, freedom, dedication, redemption, purification, and of course, miracles unite all of us, despite any differences in our religious, political, or social allegiances.
On this day, let’s stop for a minute and reflect on what we’ve achieved and who we lost since such a day a year back. In this past year, we lost two of our greatest supporters and scientific faculty members – Dr. Joyce McDougal and Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld. Although neither of them can no longer indulge us with lively and life-transforming presentations and discussions, their presence in life of the ORI Community will continue – through our work, incorporating the vast knowledge we’ve acquired from these two deep Object Relations thinkers, teachers, and great souls. We are sure that both of them would be happy to celebrate our achievements, and the following are just a few major ones.
ORI is proud to report that we’d just celebrated our 20th anniversary and started our third decade of psychoanalytic training and educating mental health practitioners and general public.
ORI had initiated a non-profit Cause on Facebook, “Support Mental Health Education,” with 240 members and growing. Each member is spreading the word about the Cause and bringing awareness of the need to support of young mental health professionals who chose this underfunded field in dedication to the bigger social goals.
On YouTube, ORI promotes psychoanalytic and Object Relations literacy, through its free educational mini-video-series, “Object Relations View.” In our first eight videos, such important topics as “bad objects” and “loyalty to bad objects,” self-sabotage, “time as an object,” projective identification,” etc., are revealed through accessible language and clinical examples.
ORI is also proud to report the opening of our own publishing company, ORI Press, with the motto: “Furthering, Uniting, and Popularizing Psychoanalytic and Scientific Thought.” Our first two books (“The Compulsion to Create” and “The Creative Mystique,” by Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt.) are ready to see the bookshelves in February 2012.
Our next few titles are: * About Dreams (children’s book by Suzanne Saldarini, M.A., LPC); * A Consilience of Natural and Social Sciences: A Memoir of Original Contributions (by Henry Kellerman, PhD); * Anatomy of Rape (by Jeffrey Lewis, PhD); * Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as an Object (Edited, Collective work);* Neurobiology for Psychotherapists and Psychoanalysts: A Guide to Mind through the Brain Matter (by Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD). ORI Press is announcing call for psychoanalytic publications, including call for papers related to work of Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld, who was a presenter and discussant at all of our annual conferences and at all “Seinfeld’s workshops.” Paper selection will be finished by March 30th, 2012, and selected paper(s) will be presented at the Annual Memorial lecture/workshop dedicated to Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld (in May 2012, exact date TBA).
For more information about ORI, our different on-going projects and educational events, please visit this web site often, sign up for our listserv announcements, or email the administrator at Admin@ORINYC.org/ call 646-522-0387. To get involved with our Cause “Support Mental Health Education,” you can visit the Cause on Facebook or visit our website, and click on the tab “Facebook.” Any level of involvement will be appreciated – financial, volunteering, and participating in our educational events. If you choose to donate to the Cause or to ORI – your contribution is tax-deductible!
For more information regarding publishing opportunities with the ORI Press, please contact the editor by email (ORIpress@ORINYC.org or ORIPressEditor@Gmail.com) or by phone (646-522-1056).
With thanks and best wishes,
Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD
ORI Administrator and Community Outreach Coordinator
"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without
thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks
strength and fortitude.
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual
road."
[John Henry Jowett]
Please, read an article on Neuroscience of Giving and Receiving (by Inna Rozentsvit, M.D.) HERE.
December 1, 2011
After twenty years of educating and training Mental Health professionals, as well as general public, ORI had established Object Relations Institute Press (ORI Press), and we are celebrating this event on December 10th, 2011, at the ORI's Holiday Party.
Mission of the ORI Press is: Furthering, uniting, and popularizing psychoanalytic and scientific thought.
First two books of the ORI Press will be published in 2012. They are: The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers and The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity - by Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt. These books were originally published by Rutledge, but now, newly edited, illustrated, and with additional chapters, they will appear on the book shelves again.
ORI Press is announcing call for psychoanalytic publications, including call for papers related to work of Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld. Paper selection will be finished by April 30th, 2012, and selected paper(s) will be presented at the Annual Memorial lecture/workshop dedicated to Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld (in June 2012, exact date TBA).
For more information regarding publishing opportunities with the ORI Press, please contact the Editor, Dr. Inna Rozentsvit - by email (ORIpress@ORINYC.org or ORIPressEditor@Gmail.com) or by phone (646-522-0387 or 646-522-1056).
September 2011
Ten years ago, on September 11th, 2001 we all experienced tremendous loss and trauma, which never will be forgotten, but now - we are celebrating life of those who perished, and resilience of those who survived.
Please, enjoy this essay written by our Institute's Executive Director and Founder, Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler, in the spirit of the moment...
THE DAY THE WORLD FELL APART:
REMEMBERING 9/11 TEN YEARS LATER
By Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt, NPSyA
A car of strangers pulls up on the corner near my office building in lower Manhattan and one of the strangers says to me as they catch me on my way to cross the street. “Which is the way to Ground Zero?” I wince. I feel offended, invaded, intruded on by what appears to be a bunch of out of town tourists asking me for directions to a local tourist spot, asking as if they have gone down a list, and now are just focusing on their next renowned destination, which happens to be 9/11’s sacred and tragic “Ground Zero.” I am struck by my own reaction because it is so different than any other time that a stranger, whether a tourist or a New Yorker, asks me for directions. Usually I am friendly and try to help out as best I can, especially if I’m not in a particular rush as most New Yorkers are. But this time is different. I start to appreciate feelings that I didn’t realize were there. My first feeling is anger, and some indignation, as I feel alienated from these strangers who are not among the vast clan of New Yorkers who actually experienced 9/11 close at hand, together as native New Yorkers. I don’t think these people can really understand, even though I never had such thoughts before when all the news reports brought our whole nation together as Americans when the cultural heart of America was struck with sudden devastation. My next feelings are of grief, sadness, and a silent nostalgia that I have no attention of sharing with this car load of strange tourists. I waive them towards the downtown area and dash away!
I am now jolted into remembering the actual day, the actual time, the actual place. I find myself walking past the outside garden restaurant where I sat with a friend on that day, dazed and unbelieving as a picture perfect day surrounded me, belying what I had already experienced that morning. For it was after a cell phone call from a patient heading to my office, which blared out a message that made me pick up the phone in the middle of a session with someone who had made it to my office that day, that the shock of what was radiating all over the world entered my consciousness. At first she said: “I’m on the way to your office but I’m afraid for my staff,” and then a long pause, “Oh no there’s another plane. It’s heading at a building. I can’t come. I have to go back and be with my office staff!” After she hung up, I turned on the radio to hear what was happening because some catastrophe was obviously at hand! The female patient who I was with was in her 80s, and as soon as WNYC’s reporting of the imminent events could be heard, my patient began to tell me about the day the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor, the day of the 1940’s catastrophe that had ushered America into World War II. Suddenly, the roles of me and my patient seemed reversed. My mid-80’s patient came out of her childhood transference state-- in which I often played the role of her mother-- to relate to me, as someone around much before my time, the historic preludes to this current invasion from abroad.
As a Clinician
But now I wish to convey to you some thoughts about 9/11 as a clinician, as a psychologist and psychoanalyst who has practiced for 36 years, and who remembers some critical clinical work that I did with my patients during the traumatic impact of 9/11. I want to stress that I believe the most important work I did during the time of 9/11 was truly as a psychoanalyst with my ongoing, mostly long term, patients. This doesn’t mean that I didn’t volunteer to be of help in a short term way with those in acute crisis. I did. I did a little bit in talking to those in shock inside the doors of a corporation that was enlightened enough to have mental health professionals on hand for their employees to talk to. But my most true, in depth impact was with my very own patients, the ones I had been engaged with over time, the ones whose process I had been nurturing all along. In fact, a significant part of this impact was with the lady who had called on the cell phone, a business woman, who ran back to be with her staff of employees at the time of imminent crisis. Her business office had been severely damaged, and she lost a lot of business, which had made it impossible to pay her exorbitant New York rent for a month. And this was after she had moved her office into her home, so both her home and business, and business relations, were threatened if she failed to pay her rent. I believe that her ability to stand up to Red Cross officials and demand that she be given compensation for the month’s rent and business expenses, was a direct result of the analytic work we did in her regular treatment sessions, as I interpreted how the current crisis, in which she felt her world falling apart, was exacerbated by her unconscious re-living of the first time she had felt the world was falling apart, in her childhood, when she was nine years old. It was when she was nine that her mother decided to leave her father’s home and take her and her brother with her. Pretending to be an adult, and in an effort to support her mother, she declared as she was whisked away in an automobile with her mother, “Well, I’m glad that’s over with!” But inside her inner world was falling apart. Her sense of self, that had been so associated with the applause and cheerleading of her father, was plummeting into the depths of despair and into a hidden and covert helplessness! She put on a brave face and an attitude of bravado for her mother, but inside she was enraged at the mother who was dragging her away from both the father and the home she absolutely loved. Of course she could not at any cost allow herself to be conscious of her rage at her mother because now her mother was her only parent, the only one she had to depend on in all the world-- and she didn’t even know where she was going. Everything was topsy-turvy as she was sped off in a vehicle with her angry and depressed mother at the wheel! She left behind the painted bedroom that was called the “upside down room,” with the ceiling looking like the floor. Now things were really upside down!
But every week, this middle-aged female patient, this generally assertive business woman who felt like jelly inside, came to her twice weekly analytic sessions, and re-lived with a more acute conscious grief than ever before, as the memories rushed up within her, her feeling that “the whole world is falling apart!” And in this re-living, with the holding environment that she and I created together in the treatment room, my patient was able to piece by piece separate out the memories of how the world had fallen apart when she was nine, and the current realities of how the world was falling apart in the present, in the wake of 9/11 that had happened in her backyard. I had a number of other patients whose homes and art studios, or offices, were besieged by the assaults of 9/11 on the lower West side, and they too had to remember all the earthquakes that emerged from their unconscious internal world domains with the current external and sociological shocks. But I remember the work with this woman most of all! I remember how she saved herself financially, as she saved herself psychologically, by working faithfully within the well-kept boundaries of the psychoanalytic process, in the treatment room where it was safe to remember and safe to experience the flood of feelings that she had repressed and kept at bay all these years, all though we had touched on them before. The acuteness of the trauma of 9/11 was with us all, but I was most centered and least helpless, and most effective, when I stayed loyally in my psychoanalytic role and worked progressively with this woman. Her trauma and resilience is obvious. But my own resonates too, through the work I did in connection with her.
Thank you!
FYI: On October 22nd, at the NAAP 2011 conference, Dr. Kavaler-Adler will be offering a workshop on “Trauma and Resilience: An Object Relations Perspective.”
Visit Our You Tube Channel
ObjectRelations2009
- to view the highlights of our Annual Conferences:
21st Annual Conference (February 2012): Voyages Into the Internal World: Archetypes, Internal Objects, and Internal Saboteurs. Three Ways of Looking at Self-sabotage (with Jungian, Kleinian, and Fairbairnian Perspectives).
20th Anniversary Annual Conference
(February 26th, 2011):
Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as a Persecutory
vs. a Holding Object
19th Annual Conference (2010): Psychoanalysis & Spirituality
18th Annual Conference
(2009):
Eroticized Demonic Object, the Demon Lover, Masud Khan, Date Rape, & Argentine Tango
Our Institute offers
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Four Year Certificate Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
The Object Relations
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psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with a
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featuring the teaching of the British and American Object Relations
theorists and their clinical applications.
The curriculum stresses preoedipal stage psychopathology contributing to character
disorders, and modifications and
elaborations in Freudian theory and
technique made by object relations theorists. Object relations
theorists have
contributed to deepening our understanding of
psychical structures and offer us techniques for dealing with
clients
who were thought to be unreachable.
This unique
curriculum conducted in small group and class settings provides the
candidate with the whole experiential
dimension of learning related
to the processing of "objective countertransference" feelings,
associations, and visceral
experiences. These issues are seen as the
key to understanding the split off and dissociated aspects of the
psychotherapy or psychoanalytic patient, as the clinician sits in
the room with him or her. This experiential study
takes place in
supervision groups, which highlight the group process as a medium for
the learning personal development
process. In-depth communication
between candidates in each class is encouraged in relation to their
internal processing
of their clinical work.
* Individual courses & seminars (new in 2011):
Child Development & Application of Object Relations Theory to Working with Children (seminar)
Infant Research & Object Relations Approach
Interpretation of Dreams & Object Relations Clinical Technique (Advanced course)
Neurobiology of Object Relations (seminar)
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Projective Identification:
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Time as an Object - Object Relations view (part 3
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Self Sabotage - Object Relations view
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Fear of Success - Object
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Mourning, Developmental
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Bad Objects and Loyalty to Bad Objects - Object Relations View (part 7)
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