2026 ORI Annual Conference
of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
“To Sleep, Perchance to Dream”:
Sleep and Sleepiness in Psychoanalytic Sessions
— Insight, Drama, and Dissociation
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026 • 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET Location: Virtual live
8.5 CE hours for NYS Psychologists, NYS Social Workers,
and the APA (covers most mental health professionals outside of NYS);
5.75 CE hours for Licensed Psychoanalysts
2025 ORI Annual Conference
of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Annihilation Anxiety:
Object Relations and Other Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Encountering an End of Existence
Date: Saturday March 22, 2025, 10 am – 4:30 pm EST/NYC Location: Virtual live!
Continuing Education: 7.5 CEs for NYS Psychologists, NYS Social Workers, & the APA
(covers most Mental Health Professionals outside of NYS) 5.75 CEs for Licensed Psychoanalysts
2023 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE OBJECT RELATIONS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Temporality In Psychoanalytic Treatment:
Object Relations Perspectives On Working Through
Before, Now, and Beyond
Date: Saturday March 25, 2023, 9:30 am — 4:30 pm EDT/ NYC time Location:Virtual participation only!
Panelists:
Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA:
“Working Through Blocks to Creative Self Expression: Evolving Developmental and Transferential Dialogues, Dreams, and Desires, as we Move Towards the Future”
Loray Daws, PhD:
“Feeling True to One’s Self: Developmental Mourning,
the Abandonment Depression, and the Importance of Communicative Matching
in Supporting and Vitalizing the Emergent Self”
Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW‑R, NCPsyA:
“The Basic Fault and the New Beginning”
2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE OBJECT RELATIONS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
SPONSORED BY THE OFFICE OF POSTGRADUATE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
OF ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY, PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Closet Narcissism in Cinema and Clinical Practice: Object Relations and Jungian Perspectives
Date: Saturday March 20, 2021, 10am – 4:30pm EST Location: This conference will be offered live via VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION only, due to recommendations of CDC and local government, in re: to COVID-19.
Virtual participation will be available via gotomeeting platform, with minimal technical requirements
Keynote Speaker: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA
2020 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE OBJECT RELATIONS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
SPONSORED BY THE OFFICE OF POSTGRADUATE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
OF ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY, PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
“HELL IS FOR CHILDREN”– CONTRASTING THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE TREATMENT OF THE BORDERLINE PERSONALITY: MASTERSON’S, RELATIONAL, AND INTRAPSYCHIC PERSPECTIVES
Date: Saturday March 28, 2020 SATURDAY, 9:15am – 4:30pm EST Location: This conference will be offered live via VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION only, due to recommendations of CDC and local government, in re: to COVID-19.
Virtual participation will be available via gotomeeting platform, with minimal technical requirements (Videos of the conference will be available, with the follow up questionnaires to fulfill the CE requirements.)
Prior announced location, which will not be available for in-person participation: ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY, MANHATTAN CAMPUS, 101 ASTOR PLACE, NY, NY 10003
Case Presenter: LORAY DAWS, PhD
Discussant/ Relational Approach:: ROBERT GROSSMARK, PhD, ABPP
Discussant/ Intrapsychic Approach: RAFAEL A. JAVIER, PhD, ABPP
Moderator: SUSAN KAVALER-ADLER, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA
2019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE OBJECT RELATIONS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Co-sponsored by St. John’s University’s Psychology Department and the Office of Postgraduate Professional Development Programs
The Therapeutic Action of Working with Erotic Transference: Object Relations Views and Contrasting Perspectives
Date: Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 (9:30am – 4:30 pm) Location:ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY, MANHATTAN CAMPUS, 101 ASTOR PLACE, NY, NY 10003 VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION will be offered (for those who are not able to attend in person) – via Gotomeeting platform, with minimal technical requirements. (Videos of the conference will be available, with the follow up questionnaires to fulfill the CE requirements.)
Keynote speaker: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, DLitt, NCPsyA
Discussants: Margaret Yard, PhD, APRN and Stephanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, NCPsyA
Moderator: Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP
Continuing Education Information: 6PDU (for educators, legal professionals, psychoanalytic candidates in training) from ORI
2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE OBJECT RELATIONS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Co-sponsored by St. John’s University’s Psychology Department and the Office of Postgraduate Professional Development Programs Co-sponsored by NASW-NYS, CEU provider for NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts, Licensed Social Workers, Licenses Mental Health Counselors, & Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
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
Date: Saturday, March 24th, 2018 (9:15 am – 4:30 pm) Location: St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus, 101 Astor Place, NYC, 10003
VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION will be offered (for those who are not able to attend in person) – via Gotomeeting platform, with minimal technical requirements
Case Presenter: Harold P. Blum, M.D. Discussant: Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP and Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, NCPsyA Moderator: SUSAN KAVALER-ADLER, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA
2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE OBJECT RELATIONS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Co-sponsored by St. John’s University’s Psychology Department and the Office of Postgraduate Professional Development Programs
Co-sponsored with The Advanced Clinical Education Foundation of The New York State Society for Clinical Social Work
The Dark Side of Creativity: Compulsions, Blocks, and Creations
Date: Saturday, March 18th, 2017 (9:15 am – 4:30 pm) Location: St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus, 101 Astor Place, NYC, 10003
VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION will be offered (for those who are not able to attend in person) – via Gotomeeting platform, with minimal technical requirements
Case Presenter: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt, NCPsyA Discussant: Stefanie Teitelbaum, LCSW-R, NCPsyA and Jack Schwartz, PsyD, LCSW Moderator: Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP
2016 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE OBJECT RELATIONS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Co-sponsored by St. John’s University’s Psychology Department and the Office of Postgraduate Professional Development Programs
Women’s Voices in Psychoanalysis: Erased or Forgotten
Date: Saturday, March 19th, 2016 (9:15 am – 4:30 pm) Location: St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus, 101 Astor Place, NYC, 10003
VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION will be offered (for those who are not able to attend in person) – via Gotomeeting platform, with minimal technical requirements
Presenter: Jeffrey Lewis, PhD and B. William Brennan, ThM, MA, LMHC Discussant: Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP
Moderator: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt, NCPsyA
This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886726323-0) for 6 Social Work (NYS) Continuing Education contact hours. Other professionals – earn 6.0 CE post-graduate education credits in psychoanalytic education.
