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FEAR OF SUCCESS

INTERACTIVE LECTURE and MEDITATIVE VISUALIZATION WORKSHOP
with SUSAN KAVALER-ADLER, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA
OCTOBER 1, 2023, 10 am to 4:30 pm EDT/NYC
Continuing Education: 5.5 CE hours – approved by NAAP
for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

To Register for this seminar, please complete the Registration form

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

This workshop will address fundamental themes of a subject that pertains to the inhibition of success, and forward psychological movement in many people.

The morning will offer lecture, plus questions, and discussion.

The afternoon will offer an experiential process, in which a guided meditative visualization will allow workshop participants to share their individual unique experience of the themes in the workshop with other group members, creating an atmosphere of bonding and meaningful psychological communication. Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s unique guided meditation process relates to that which she uses in her monthly four-hour Saturday group, a group that she has conducted for over 30 years.

The lecture portion of the workshop will cover the theory of two developmental levels of Fear of Success. The traditional oedipal level of Fear of Success (going back to Freud in “Those Wrecked by Success”) will be contrasted with an Object Relations theory focus on the preoedipal factors that inhibit success, and that inhibit psychological development within and outside of clinical treatment.

Related to both levels of Fear of Success, participants will be referred to a journal article of Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s (in the Forum of Psychoanalysis Journal, 2006), which can now be read as a chapter in her 2022 book published by IPBooks, entitled: Developmental Mourning, Erotic Transference, and Object Relations Psychoanalysis. The title of this paper is “My Graduation is My Mother’s Funeral: Fear of Success and the Transformation of the Internal Saboteur.”

SCHEDULE OF THE DAY :

10AM to 12:30PM – INTERACTIVE LECTURE
1:30PM TO 4:30PM – EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

Blackman, J. S. (2013). The therapist’s answer book: Solutions to 101 tricky problems in psychotherapy. Routledge.

17 Questions to which the answers are needed during evaluation. (Many of these are in Blackman, 2013).

Reading correlations (Problem # refers to the chapter in the Therapist’s Answer Book)

  • Timing of interventions: Problem 2 (2 pages); Problem 101a (4 pages);
  • The male “Yes, Dear!”: Problem 24 (2 pages);
  • Bullies (who demand medication or ask personal question about you): Problem 21 (5 pages);
  • Highly intelligent people (who doubt your ability to keep up) Problem 17 (4 pages)
  • Wealthy people: Problem 16 (3 pages);
  • Asking too few questions during evaluation (Blackman, 2004);
  • Asking too many questions during treatment (Dorpat, 2000);
  • People with vague chief complaints: Problem 4 (4 pages);
  • Setting up the working alliance and the therapeutic alliance (Greenson, Zetzel, Adatto – see Blackman, 2013), Section B introduction and Problem 3 (3 pages)
  • Planes of intrapsychic conflict: where to intervene; past vs. present unconscious (Sandler & Sandler, 1994): Problem 8 (5 pages);
  • People with high suicide risk (multiple references including Durkheim and Shneidman – in Blackman, 2004, chapter 8); also: Problem 62 (9 pages);
  • Promiscuous people (acter-outers): Problem 30 (4 pages);
  • People who are involved with someone who is driving them crazy (Blackman,2013a): Problem 96 (3 pages);
  • 17 questions to which answers are necessary during evaluation (Blackman, not yet unpublished in English). A developmental view of stages in the supervision of psychoanalytic therapies. (Attached and sent to registrants). [Blackman, J. (2019). A developmental view of stages in the supervision of psychoanalytic therapies. Journal of Shanghai Mental Health Center 2(3), 162-167.]
  • Asking too many questions during psychotherapy (Blackman, 2004, Chapter 6);
  • People who bring their own drinks to the office: Problem 54 (5 pages).

About the book:

This book is designed to help them achieve that by providing practical solutions to problems that arise in psychotherapy, such as the following: Do depressed people need an antidepressant, or psychotherapy alone? How do you handle people who want to be your “friend,” who touch you, who won’t leave your office, or who break boundaries? How do you prevent people from quitting treatment prematurely? Suppose you don’t like the person who consults you? What if people you treat with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) don’t do their homework? When do you explain defense mechanisms, and when do you use supportive approaches? Award-winning professor Jerome S. Blackman answers these and many other tricky problems for psychotherapists. Dr. Blackman punctuates his lively text with tips and snippets of various theories that apply to psychotherapy. He shares his advice and illustrates his successes and failures in diagnosis, treatment, and supervision. He highlights fundamental, fascinating, and perplexing problems he has encountered over decades of practicing and supervising therapy.

SHORT BIO OF THE WORKSHOP LEADER:

Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, who has been in practice in Manhattan for 45 years. She is a Fellow of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis, and is the Founder and Executive Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  She is a Training Analyst, Senior Supervisor and active faculty member at the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, a NYS Board of Regents chartered psychoanalytic training institute.

Dr. Kavaler-Adler has an honorary doctorate in literature, and she is a prolific author, with published six books and over 70 articles and book chapters in the field of object relations psychoanalytic theory. Six of her seven published books are related to clinical Object Relations theories. They are: Developmental Mourning, Erotic Transference, and Object Relations Psychoanalysis (IPBooks, 2023); The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory (Karnac, 2014); The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization in Vivid Case Studies (Karnac, 2013); Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2003; Gradiva® Award from NAAP, 2004); The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity (Routledge, 1996; ORI Academic Press 2014; Gradiva® Award nomination); The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge, 1993; ORI Academic Press, 2013). Dr. Kavaler-Adler received 16 awards for her psychoanalytic writing. She is also on the editorial board of the International Journal of Controversial Conversations (IJCC). In addition, Dr. Kavaler-Adler conducts ongoing groups in her practice, such as a monthly writing group, a monthly online experiential supervision group, and a monthly “Mourning, Therapy, and Support Group” with guided visualization. More information can be found at https://kavaleradler.com/.

CONTINUING EDUCATION:

5.5 CEs available for:

NY Psychoanalysts: National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an Approved Provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0019.

NY Social Workers: National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) 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 #SW-0168.

To receive CE certificates for the actual hours attended – please request them at the time of registration or any time prior to beginning of the conference. CE certificate fee: $25 (in addition to the registration fees). No fees charged for PD (Professional Development) certificates from ORI.

REGISTRATION AND FEES:

Early Bird registration (before September 6th, 2023)
$60 regular/ $45 grad students & candidates/ $25 undergrad students.
If CEs are requested — please use the “regular” registration (not a “student”) option. There is an additional fee of $25 (can be paid prior or on the day of the conference).

Regular registration (from September 6th – till September 30th, 2023 – before 6pm EDT)
$75 regular/ $55 grad students & candidates/ $30 undergrad students.
If CEs are requested — please use the “regular” registration (not a “student”) option. There is an additional fee of $25 (can be paid prior or on the day of the conference).

Registration ‘at the door’ (after 6pm EDT/NYC time on September 30th, 2023)
$90 regular/ $65 grad students & candidates/ $35 undergrad students.

Please Note: If CEs are requested — there is an additional fee of $25 (can be paid on the day of the conference or in advance).

SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS are available for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for retired or disabled practitioners, or need-based or/and those who live outside of the USA.

CANCELLATION POLICY:
Full refund before the date of the event.
No refund from the day of the event, but full paid tuition will be applied to any further ORI events.

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