The Object Relations Institute is a New York State Chartered Educational Institution, which has been training and graduating candidates in the study of object relations theory in relation to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis clinical practice since 1991. Its faculty consists of many senior faculty, training analysts, and senior supervisors at other more traditional psychoanalytic training institutes, who were seeking the unique combination of theory and clinical practice offered by ORI in relation to Object Relations thinking. Among the faculty are also many theorists and authors contributing to the current and growing psychoanalytic literature. Opportunities have also been made for those completing the psychoanalysis object relations program to teach within the ORI programs, when candidates show both talent and interest in such teaching.

Object Relations theory has profoundly influenced the clinical practice of all those practicing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Yet, the critical contributions that stem back to the British Object Relations theorists have often been unacknowledged in America, making the avenue to learning the informed use of such theory in clinical practice a formerly haphazard and undefined one. The Object Relations Institute (ORI) for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis has integrated and organized a wide realm of fertile knowledge that can now allow clinicians to truly grasp how to utilize theories stemming back to Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Donald W.Winnicott, Michael Balint, and Wilfred Bion. Freudian theory and current trends in self psychology and relational theory are also understood in relation to the monumental contributions of object relations theorists in both Britain and America.

It is the belief of the founders of this Institute that the integration of both the British and American object relations theorists provides the soundest framework for the clinical practice of individual and group psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis

The Object Relations Institute features an Annual Workshop Series and Conference, as well as Open House Meetings for prospective candidates. Our faculty and founders are always available to answer any of your questions. We encourage you to contact us at (212) 268-8638 or by email at admin@orinyc.org.