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Calendar of All ORI Events
Offered in 2023-2024 Academic Year

(in EST/EDT  NYC time)

2022-2023 Academic Year

(in EST/EDT  NYC time)

8/14/22 (Sunday, 10am -3pm EDT/NYC) – Love: Transcultural Perspectives Virtual Symposium (Based on the International Handbook of Love Publication)
10/2/22 (Sunday, 9:30am – 1pm) – Fairbairn’s Paradigm Shift to Developmental Model of Psychoanalysis as a Method and a Clinical Tool (with David Celani, PhD) [Psychoanalytic Grand Rounds]
10/13/22 – 12/22/22 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Clinical Experiential Applications (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
10/13/22 – 12/22/22 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Meditative Psychoanalysis — The Marriage of Mindfulness, Meaning, and Intimacy: The Art of Flourishing (with Jeffrey Rubin, PhD)
10/6/22 – 12/15/22 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
11/6; 13; 20; 12/4; 11/22 (Sundays, 10am – 1pm) – Introduction to Psychohistory for Mental Health Professionals and the Curious (with Paul H. Elovitz, PhD)
12/10/22 (Saturday, 10am – 4pm) – Functional Psycho-Neuro-Biology Approach to Psychosomatics — in Mental Health and Everyday Life (with Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD)
1/8/23 (1:00pm – 3:30pm) – Object Relation Institute’s Winter 2023 Open House – Topic: Developmental Trauma, Psychic Structure, and Clinical Engagement with Those with Primal Vulnerabilities (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
1/12/23 – 3/16/23 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Character Disorders: Borderline, Narcissistic, Schizoid Conditions: Object Relations Clinical Theory and Clinical Cases (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
1/12/23 – 3/16/23 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
3/11/23 (1pm – 4pm) – Virtual Conference / Book Celebration of the Selected Papers by Susan Kavaler-Adler, Volume 1: Developmental Mourning, Erotic  Transference, and Object Relations Psychoanalysis
3/25/23 (9:30am – 4:30pm EST) — Annual Conference: Temporality In Psychoanalytic Treatment: Object Relations Perspectives On Working Through Before, Now, and Beyond
4/13/23 – 6/15/23 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Mourning, Melancholia, and the Use of an Object: A Freud-Winnicott Dialectic on Madness and Object Loss (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, NCPsyA)
4/13/23 – 6/15/23 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
4/15/23; 4/29/23 (Saturdays, 9:30am — 2:30pm EDT) – Enactment(s): Theoretical and Clinical Aspects (with Eva D. Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP)
4/23/23 (Sunday, 10am – 4pm EDT) — Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment Selection Using Multimodal Psychoanalytic Theories (with Jerome Blackman, M.D., FIPA)
6/10/23-6/11/23 (Saturday and Sunday, 10am -1:30pm EDT) — An Object Relations Approach to Parent-Child Interactions That Impact the Child’s Emotional Development (with David P. Celani, PhD)
6/24/23 (Saturday, 11am — 5pm EDT) — Tricky Problems in Analytic Therapies and Their Solutions (with Jerome Blackman, M.D., FIPA)
6/29/23 (Thursday evening, 7pm – 9:55pm EDT) – Developmental Analytic Supervision: Everything You Wanted to Know about Supervision but Were Afraid to Ask (with Jerome Blackman, M.D., FIPA)
7/16/23 (1pm – 3:30pm EDT) – Summer 2023 Open House with the Interactive Lecture and the Role Play on The Scapegoat Complex: Psychodynamics of Pre-oedipal Developmental Arrest
7/23/23 (10AM to 4 PM EDT/NYC) – The Dynamics of Scapegoating and the Scapegoat Complex (Interactive Lecture and Workshop with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD., ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
Dates TBA – Infant Observational Research and Its Impact on Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique (with Ann Rose Simon, LCSW-R, LP)
Dates TBA – Examining Cultural Artifacts: A Tool for Personal and Professional Development (course/ seminar with Robinson Lilienthal, PhD)

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Calendar of ORI Events for 2021-2022 Academic Year

9/2, 9, 23, 30 (Thursdays, 7pm – 9:55pm) – Psychoanalysis after Freud: Creative and Controversial Successors (with Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD)
9/26/21 (Sunday, 9:30am – 4pm) – Childhood trauma and psychological development of a mass murderer through the lens of Fairbairn’s Object Relations theory (with David Celani, PhD)
10/14/21 – 12/23/21 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Clinical Experiential Applications (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
10/14/21 – 12/23/21 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Self-analysis, Self-Transformation, and Self-Creation: Bringing Together East and West (with Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD)
10/14/21 – 12/23/21 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
12/4/21 – 12/5/21 (Saturday and Sunday, 9:30am – 2:30pm EST/NYC) – Who Is Afraid of Alice Miller? – free virtual conference, but registration is required
1/13/22 – 3/17/22 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – The Internal World, Psychic Fantasy, and the Evolution of the Psychic Self (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
1/13/22-3/17/22 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
1/15/22 (Sunday, 10:30am – 4:40pm EST) – Movies, Rock & Roll, Freud (with Drs. J. Schwartz, S. Kavaler-Adler, K. Fuchsman, R. Samuels, D.J. Fisher, G. Cocks) – inspired by recent book published by the ORI Academic Press.
2/6; 2/20; 3/13; 4/3/22 (Sundays, 10am – 1pm) – Psychobiography: An In-Depth Understanding of Famous and ordinary People (with Paul H. Elovitz, PhD)
2/12/22 (Saturday, 10:30am – 3:15pm EST) – Celebrating The Many Roads of the Builders of Psychohistory (with Drs. D. Beisel, P. Elovitz, K. Fuchsman, P. Lowenberg, D. O’Keefe, & B. Seitler) – inspired by recent book published by the ORI Academic Press.
2/16/22 – 4/20/22 (Wednesdays, 6pm – 9pm EDT) – Seeing Is Thinking: The Image As Threshold Of Reality (with Silvio Wolf)
3/5/22 – 3/6/22 (Saturday and Sunday, 9:30am – 3pm EST/NYC) – Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma and Resilience: From Awareness to Working Through (a follow-up on December 2021 international virtual conference, “Who’s Afraid of Alice Miller”)
3/26/22 (Saturday, 10am – 4:30pm EST) – Annual Conference: In Vivo Role Play of the Object Relations Psychoanalytic Process: Six Theoretical Views
4/7/22 – 6/9/22 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 10:05pm) – From Confusion to New Beginnings and Thrills: Ferenczi, Balint and Object Relations (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, NCPsyA)
4/7/22 – 6/16/22 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
4/23/22; 5/7/22 (Saturdays, 9am – 2pm) – NACHTRÄGLICHKEIT: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations (with Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP)
5/15/22 (10am – 4:30pm EDT/NYC) – Application of Fairbairn’s Structural Metaphors for Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders: Hysteric, Obsessive, Narcissistic, and Borderline (with Dr. David P. Celani)
6/4/22 (Saturday, 10am – 4pm) – From Neurology to Psychoanalysis and Back to Neuroscience: Basics of functional Psychoneurobiology for Mental Health Professionals (workshop with Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD)
7/10/22 (Sunday, 1:00pm — 3:30pm) – Object Relation Institute’s Summer 2022 Open House: Working with Personality Disorders in Psychoanalytic Supervision: The Object Relations View with Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler, ORI’s Co-founder and Executive Director
8/14/22 (Sunday, 10am -3pm EDT/NYC) – Love: Transcultural Perspectives Virtual Symposium (Based on the International Handbook of Love Publication)

Calendar of ORI Events for 2020-2021 Academic Year

9/10-10/1 (Thursdays, 7pm-9:45pm, with 15 min break included); & 10/3, 2020 (Saturday, 9:30am-12:15pm, with 15 min break included) – elective for trainees of the One Year and Two Years Programs – The Developmental Self and Object Relations approach of James F. Masterson (with Loray Daws, PhD)
10/8/20 – 12/17/20 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Clinical Experiential Applications (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
10/8/20 – 12/17/20 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Ronald Fairbairn’s Psychoanalytic Model of the Human Psyche and Its Clinical Applications (with David Celani, PhD & Jack Schwartz, PsyD, LCSW)
10/8/20 – 12/17/20 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
1/14/20-3/18/20 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – American Object Relations School of Psychoanalysis (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
1/14/21-3/18/21 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
3/20/21 (Saturday, 10am – 4:30pm) – Annual Conference: Closet Narcissism in Cinema and Clinical Practice: Object Relations and Jungian Perspectives. 7 CEs Presenter: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP; Discussant: Kenneth Porter, M.D.; Moderator: Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP. Conference will be offered virtually.
4/01/21-6/10/21 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Psychoanalytic and Object Relations Theory of and Practice with Dreams (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, NCPsyA). 22.5 CEs
4/01/21-6/10/21 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
4/10/21 & 4/24/21 (Saturdays, 9:00am – 2:00pm) – The Role of Free Associations in Psychoanalysis: Then and Now. Free Associations: IPA’S Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (with Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP) 21 CEs
4/18/21 (Sunday, 10am – 4:30pm) – Annual Trauma Workshop: Breaking the Trauma-Bond Between Your Patient and Their Family: An Object Relations Approach to Resistance in Treatment (with David Celani, PhD) 9.5 CEs
5/16/21– Open House, with interactive lecture on Working with Personality Disorders in Psychoanalytic Supervision: The Object Relations View (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt). No fee; RSVP is required. REGISTRATION FORM
6/27/21 (Sunday, 9:30am – 5pm) – The Illusion of Love: Battered Woman and Battering Couple, An Object Relational Approach (with David Celani, PhD)
7/8 & 7/9, 2021 (Thursday & Friday, 9am – 12:40pm) – Post-Traumatic Growth: Deepening Skills in Healing Through Struggle (with Victoria Grinman, PhD, LCSW-R)
7/17/21 (Saturday, 10am – 4:30pm) – Envy: From Hunger to Destruction of the Good, Inhibitor of Love and Creative Self-Expression (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)

Calendar of ORI Events for 2019-2020 Academic Year

9/21/19 – Open House, with interactive lecture on Working with Personality Disorders in Psychoanalytic Supervision: The Object Relations View (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt). No fee; RSVP is required.
10/3/19 – 12/19/19 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, DLitt, NCPsyA)
10/3/19 – 12/19/19 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Clinical Experiential Applications (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
10/3/19 – 12/19/19 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Attachment, Psychosomatics, Trauma and Post-Traumatic Growth through the Lens of Neuropsychoanalysis (with Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD)
1/9/20 – 3/12/20 (Thursdays, 8:40pm – 9:55pm) – Dissociation, splitting, and closet narcissism (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, DLitt, NCPsyA)
1/9/20- 3/12/20 (Thursdays, 7:15pm – 8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, DLitt, NCPsyA)
3/26/20 – 6/04/20 (Thursdays, 7:50pm – 9:05pm) – D. W. Winnicott: The Lens of Primary Creativity (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, NCPsyA)
3/26/20 – 6/04/20 (Thursdays, 6:20pm – 7:35pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, DLitt, NCPsyA)
3/28/20 (Saturday, 9:15am – 4:30pm) – Annual Conference: “HELL IS FOR CHILDREN”– CONTRASTING THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE TREATMENT OF THE BORDERLINE PERSONALITY: MASTERSON’S, RELATIONAL, AND INTRAPSYCHIC PERSPECTIVES. Case presenter: Dr. Loray Daws; Discussants: Drs. Robert Grossmark & Rafael A. Javier; Moderator: Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler. Conference will be held virtually.
7/11/20 (1 pm -3:30 pm) – Open House: Four Object Relations Perspectives on the Internal Persecutory Object at the Time of COVID-19. No fee; RSVP is required.

Summer Trimester:
7/11; 18; 25; 8/1; 15 (Saturdays, 9:30 am – 12:15 pm, with 15 min break included) – Introduction to the Theories of Donald Meltzer (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, NCPsyA)

Calendar of ORI Events for 2018-2019 Academic Year

9/22/18 (Saturday, 1-4pm EST) – OPEN HOUSE with Interactive Lecture & Role Play on Blocks to Self-Expression. No fee; RSVP is required.
10/4/18 – 12/13/18 (Thursdays, 8:40pm -9:55pm) – Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Clinical Experiential Applications (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
10/4/18 – 12/13/18 (Thursdays, 7:15pm -8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
10/12, 10/26, 11/16, 12/07/2018 (Fridays, 6:30pm-9:00pm) – Transference: Evolution from Freudian to Object Relations and Other Perspectives Worldwide (with Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP)
1/10/19 – 3/14/19 (Thursdays, 8:40pm-9:55pm) – Contributions of British and American Object Relations Theorists to Clinical Work (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt)
1/10/19 – 3/14/19 (Thursdays, 7:15pm-8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
3/23/19 (Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm) – Annual Conference: The Therapeutic Action of Working with Erotic Transference: An Object Relations Perspectives (Keynote: Susan Kavaler-Adler; Discussants: Stefanie Teitelbaum and Margaret Yard; Moderator: Eva D. Papiasvili)
3/28/19 – 6/06/19 (Thursdays, 6:15pm -7:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt)
4/04/19 – 6/06/19 (Thursdays, 8:15pm-9:40pm) – Object Relations Perspectives on Classical Cases in Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Schreber Case (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, LP, NCPsyA)

Calendar of ORI Events for 2017-2018 Academic Year

10/5/17 – 12/14/17 (Thursdays, 8:40pm -9:55pm) – Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Clinical Experiential Applications (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, DLitt)
10/6, 10/27, 11/17, 12/15/2017 (Fridays, 5:30-7:40pm) – Countertransference: Clinical Theory and Technique (with Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP)
10/5/17 – 12/14/17 (Thursdays, 7:15pm-8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
1/11/18 – 3/15/18 (Thursdays, 8:40pm-9:55pm) – Narcissistic Character And Narcissistic Dynamics (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
1/11/18 – 3/15/18 (Thursdays, 7:15pm-8:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
3/24/18 (Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm) – Is It the Wolf In the Man Or the Man In the Wolf? A Contemporary Object Relations View of Freud’s Wolf Man: Fragile Narcissism and Borderline Dynamics. Presenter: Harold Blum, M.D. Discussants: Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, NCPsyA and Eva D. Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP. Moderator: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA.
4/12/18 – 6/14/18 (Thursdays, 7:45pm-9:00pm) – Caesura and Thalassa; A Dialectical Playground with FREUD – FERENCZI – BION (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NCPsyA)
4/12/18 – 6/14/18 (Thursdays, 6:15pm -7:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW; NCPsyA)
4/29/18 (Sunday, 1pm-4pm) – Open House and interactive lecture: Working with Personality Disorders in Psychoanalytic Supervision: The Object Relations View, with Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler

Calendar of ORI Events for 2016-2017 Academic Year

10/6/16 – 12/22/16 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Clinical Experiential Applications (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
10/6/16 – 12/22/16 (Thursdays, 8:15pm – 9:30pm) – The Unconscious – through the Evolution of Psychoanalytic Theory and Neuroscience (with Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP)
10/6/16 – 12/22/16 (Thursdays, 6:15pm – 7:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NCPsyA)
10/08/16 (Sunday, 1pm-4pm) – Fall 2016 ORI’s Open House with mini-lecture on Finding and Sustaining One’s True Self Voice, and Opening Paths to Success (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
1/12/17 – 3/23/17 (Thursdays, 8:35pm – 9:50pm ) – Schizoid Phenomena and Schizoid Personality (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
1/12/17 – 3/30/17 (Thursdays, 7:10pm – 8:25pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
3/18/17 (Saturday, 9:15am – 4:30pm) – Annual Conference: The Dark Side of Creativity: Compulsions, Blocks, and Creations. Presenter: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt, NCPsyA Discussants: Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, NCPsyA and Jack Schwartz, PsyD, LCSW Moderator: Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP. Working Lunch: ORI Academic Press authors discuss the dark side of creativity featured in their books: Sandra Indig, LCSW-R, LP, ATCB: Talking colors: Seeing words/ Hearing images. Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt, NCPsyA: The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers and The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity
4/13/17 – 6/08/17 (Thursdays, 6:15pm – 7:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NCPsyA)
4/13/17 – 6/08/17 (Thursdays, 7:45pm – 9:00pm) – Psychoanalytic Technique: Freud and Beyond (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NCPsyA)
4/23/17 (Sunday, 1pm-4pm) – Spring 2017 ORI’s Open House and Interactive Lecture on The Subjective Experience of Time: Time as Persecutory, Frozen, or Holding: An Object Relations Perspective for Clinicians (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA, ORI’s Executive Director)

Calendar of ORI Events for 2015-2016 Academic Year

9/20/15 (Sunday, 1pm-4pm) – Fall 2015 ORI’s Open House and Interactive Lecture on Working with Personality Disorders in Psychoanalytic Supervision: The Object Relations View .
10/8/15-12/17/15 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Clinical Experiential Applications (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
10/8/15-12/17/15 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Neuropsychoanalysis: Attachment and Object Relations through the Lens of Neurobiology and Brain Mapping (with Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD)
10/8/15-12/17/15 (Thursdays, 6:15pm -7:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Harriet Wald, LCSW-R)
10/28/15 – 12/02/15 (Wednesdays, 2:10 – 3:25 pm) – 6-week Supervisory Group with Six Experiential Dimensions: In-vivo role playing; In-vivo writing; Meditative visualization; Process case presentation; Reading and discussion; and Body awareness experience (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
10/31/15 (11am-2pm) – The Fourth Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld Memorial Workshop/ Lecture – Honoring the legacy of Dr. Seinfeld’s tradition of dialectical thinking – Klein-Winnicott Dialectic – (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA) and Jack Schwarts, PsyD, LCSW, NCPsyA).
1/14/16-3/24/16 (Thursdays, 8:25pm – 9:40pm; no class on 3/17/16) – Core Self Development and /or Disruption through Separation-Individuation Process: Normal and Character Disorder Development (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
1/14/16-3/24/16 (Thursdays, 7:00pm – 8:15pm; no class on 3/17/16) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
3/19/16 (9:30am – 4:30 pm) – ORI’s Annual Conference: Women’s Voices in Psychoanalysis: Erased or Forgotten. Presenters: Jeffrey Lewis, PhD; B. William Brennan, ThM, MA, LMHC; Discussant: Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP; Moderator: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP.
3/31/16 – 6/09/16 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Therapeutic Regression: Contributions of S. Ferenczi and M. Balint (with Jeffrey Lewis, PhD)
3/31/16 – 6/09/16 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm; no class on 4/7/16) – Trauma and Memory: Freudian and Object Relations Perspectives (with Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP)
3/31/16 – 6/09/16 (Thursdays, 6:15pm -7:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NCPsyA)
6/25/16 – 8/6/16 (Selected Saturdays, 6/25, 7/9, 23, 8/6; @ 9:45 am – 12:40 pm) – Mourning, Melancholia, and the Use of an Object: A Freud-Winnicott Dialectic On Madness and Object Loss (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NCPsyA)
6/26/16 (Sunday, 1pm-5pm) – Spring 2016 ORI’s Open House (3-5 pm) and Interactive Lecture (1-3 pm) on Envy, Hunger and Desire In Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia From Psychoanalytic Object Relations Perspective (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)

Calendar of ORI Events for 2014-2015 Academic Year

10/2/14-12/11/14 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Clinical Experiential Applications (certificate course with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, DLitt) – completed
10/2/14-1/08/15 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Advanced Freudian Thought and Technique (certificate course with Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP)
10/2/14-12/11/14 (Thursdays, 6:15pm -7:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Harriet Wald, LCSW)
10/7/14-12/9/14 (Tuesdays, 9:00 – 10:10 am) – Current Clinical Object Relations Concepts: Object survival; Developmental mirroring; Pathological narcissistic mirroring; Mirroring vulnerability, Addiction to “bad objects”; Malignant vs. benign regression; Mourning; Developmental mourning; and Transitional and potential space and transitional objects (certificate course with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
10/11; 10/18; 11/1; 11/15; 12/6 (Saturdays, 9:45 am – 12:20 pm) – Reading Wilfred Bion: Second Thoughts (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NCPsyA)
10/25/14; 11/7/14; 11/29/14; 12/13/14 (Selected Saturdays, 10 am – 1 pm) – Examining Cultural Artifacts: A Tool for Personal and Professional Development ( with Robinson Lilienthal, PhD)
1/13/15-3/17/15 (Tuesdays, 9:00 – 10:10 am) – Current Clinical Object Relations Concepts: Transitional time phenomena; Holding environment; Holding environment and the treatment of the narcissistic character; Psychoanalytic container and the analyst as psychic processing container; Hate in the countertransference; Attacks on linking; Envy and ‘oral’ envy; Envy and current theorists; Oral envy in the narcissist; and True and false self (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, DLitt)
1/8/15-3/12/15 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Sigmund Freud and His Contributions as the First Object Relations Theorist – course is postponed
1/15/15-3/19/15 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Melanie Klein and Her Contributions to Modern Psychoanalytic Practice: Concepts, Theories, Clinical Examples (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
1/15/15-3/19/15 (Thursdays, 6:15pm -7:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Harriet Wald, LCSW)
January 2015 – March 2015 (Selected Saturdays, 10 am – 1 pm, dates TBA) – Examining Cultural Artifacts: A Tool for Personal and Professional Development (with Robinson Lilienthal, PhD)
2/22/2015 – ORI Annual Conference: On Guilt, Conscience, Regret, and Reparation. Presenters: Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler and Dr. Donald Carveth.
3/15/15 – Open House and Interactive Lecture, Addiction to Bad Objects and “Nightmares and Object Relations Theories.”
3/24/15-6/09/15 (Tuesdays, 9:00 – 10:10 am; NB: no class on 4/14 and 4/21.) – Current Clinical Object Relations Concepts: The Object Relations View on Creative Process and Developmental Process. (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
3/29/15 (Sunday, 10am -4:30pm) – Countertransference: Its History as a Theory, a Phenomenon, and as a Resistance – Interactive Workshop: Lecture, “in vivo” Role-play, and Meditative Visualization (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA)
3/26/15-6/04/15 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Therapeutic Regression: Contributions of S. Ferenczi and M. Balint (with Jeffrey Lewis, PhD) – postponed
March 2015 – June 2015 (Selected Saturdays, 10 am – 1 pm) – Examining Cultural Artifacts: A Tool for Personal and Professional Development (with Robinson Lilienthal, PhD)
4/02/15-6/04/15 (Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – The Dream as the Entre to Everything: Psychoanalytic Explorations into Interpretation of Dreams (with Jeffrey Lewis, PhD)
4/02/15-6/04/15 (Thursdays, 6:15pm -7:30pm) – “Analyst as Instrument” Group Supervision Class (with Harriet Wald, LCSW)
6/05/15 – Continuing Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld’s Legacies: Understanding the “Bad Objects” and the “Empty Core”; Dialectical Thinking; Examining Cultural Artifacts, and Spirituality and Mindfulness in Life and Clinical Practice – Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld Memorial Panel – during 2015 Annual Convention of the International Psychohistorical Association, NYC (6/3/15-6/5/15; NYU campus). Panelists: Drs. Susan Kavaler-Adler; Robinson Lilienthal, Jack Schwartz. Moderator: Dr. Inna Rozentsvit.
6/27, 7/11, 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 2015 (five Saturdays, 9:45 am – 12:20 pm) – From ‘Attention’ to ‘Faith’: A Freud-Bion Dialectic (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NCPsyA).
7/19/15 (Sunday, 1pm – 4pm) – Summer Open House and Interactive Lecture on Fear of Intimacy.

Calendar of ORI Events for 2013-2014 Academic Year

9/22/13 (12pm-2pm) – Character Disorders: Narcissistic, Borderline, and Schizoid (workshop with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA); followed by the Open House (2pm-4pm).
10/1/13-12/10/13 (Tuesdays, 9:00 – 10:15 am) – Current Concepts in Object Relations Theory on Psychic Change and Clinical Process. Part 1: The Anatomy of Regret (certificate course with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, DLitt).
10/3/12-12/19/13 (10-weeks; Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Neurosis and Oedipal Conflicts (certificate course with Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP)
10/3/12-12/19/13 (10-weeks; Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Contributors (certificate course with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, DLitt).
10/3/12-12/19/13 (10-weeks; Thursdays, 6:15pm -7:30pm) – Group Supervision: Analyst as Instrument (certificate course with Harriet Wald, LCSW
1/14/13-3/18/14 (Tuesdays, 9:00 – 10:15 am) – Current Concepts in Object Relations Theory on Psychic Change and Clinical Process. Part 2: The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic (certificate course with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, DLitt) – in progress
1/16/14-3/20/14 (10-weeks; Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Narcissistic Phenomena and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (certificate course with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt).
1/16/14-6/03/14 (10-weeks; Thursdays, 6:15pm -7:30pm) – Group Supervision: Analyst as Instrument (with Harriet Wald, LCSW).
2/23/14 (9:30am-4:30pm) – Annual Conference – Psychoanalysis Today: Objectified Digital Minds and Lost Hearts of the Cybercouch. Keynote paper – by Dr. Margaret Yard. Discussants – Dr. Ruth Danon and Dr. Jeffrey Lewis. Moderator – Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler.
3/09/14 (12pm-2pm) – Workshop Envy, Hunger and Desire in Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia from Psychoanalytic Object Relations Perspective (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt), followed by the ORI’s Open House (2pm – 4pm).
3/09/14 (2pm-4pm) – ORI’s Open House (held together with the Envy, Hunger and Desire in Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia from Psychoanalytic Object Relations Perspective workshop; see above)
3/29/14-5/31/14 (Saturdays, 3/29; 4/12, 26; 5/17, 31; 9:45 am – 12:20 pm) – Reading Wilfred Bion: Theory, Function and Clinical Practice (with Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW, NPsyA)
4/01/14-6/03/14 (Tuesdays, 9:00 – 10:15 am) – Current Concepts in Object Relations Theory and Clinical Process. Part 3: Reading Donald L. Carveth and Frank Summers: Conscience and Subjectivity (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, DLitt)
4/03/14-6/05/14 (10-weeks; Thursdays, 8:15pm -9:30pm) – Neo-Kleinian Thought and Developmental Mourning Theory (with Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt)
4/03/14-6/05/14 (10-weeks; Thursdays, 6:15pm -7:30pm) – Group Supervision: Analyst as Instrument (with Harriet Wald, LCSW)
5/04/14 (Sunday, 12-3 pm) – Continuing Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld’s Tradition of Examining Cultural Artifacts. Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov: From the ‘Bad Object’ to Ecumenical Spirituality. – Third Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld Memorial lecture/ workshop (with Robinson Lilienthal, PhD).
7/11/14-8/29/14 (Fridays, 8 pm – 9:30 pm) – Integration of Contemporary British and American Object Relations Theory (with Richard M. Alperin, Ph.D., LCSW).
7/20/14 (Sunday, 1 pm – 4 pm) – ORI’s Open House – and workshop “In Session: Crying, Breathing, and Sleeping”, followed by object relations group experience with Dr. Kavaler-Adler – from 4 pm to 5:30 pm. Event is free, but RSVP is required. Virtual participation is encouraged.

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