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Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Clinical Experiential Applications

  Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and Clinical Technique - with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).

This class will consist of readings, discussions, and role plays.

Syllabus and readings:

TEXTBOOK FOR the COURSE:  “The Matrix of the Mind,” by Thomas Ogden (published by Jason Aronson, 1986). Additional readings will be emailed.

1^st Week:  Chapters 1 and 2: 1) The Psychoanalytic Dialogue; 2) Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.

2^nd Week:  Chapter 3: “The Paranoid-Schizoid Position: Self as Object."

3^rd class:  Chapter 4: “The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject."

4^th class:  Chapter 5: “Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Position.”

5^th class:  Chapter 6: “Internal Object Relations.”

6^th class:  Chapter 7: “The Mother, the Infant, and the Matrix in the Work of Donald Winnicott.”

7^th class:  Chapters 8 and 9: “Potential Space”  and “Dream Space and Analytic Space."

8^th class: a) Article: “The Case of David,” by Kavaler-Adler, in American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2005.  b) Article: “My Graduation is My Mother’s Funeral, Fear of Success" by Kavaler-Adler, in International Forum of psychoanalysis, 2006.

9^th class: Article:  “Mourning and Erotic Transference,” by Kavaler-Adler,  in International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 1992, Vol. 73 (3).

10^th class:  Article: ”Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning the Parental Internal Objects,” by Kavaler-Adler,  in Psychoanalytic Review, 2008.

For more information, please contact ORI administrator by email at admin@orinyc.org or by phone at 646-522-1056.

Bio of the instructor:

Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler is a founder and executive director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ORI), chair of the ORI Board, as well as the chair of the Training Committee, advisor, training analyst, and psychoanalytic training supervisor. She has 40 years’ experience in object relations psychoanalytic practice, specializing in early psyhotrauma, character pathology, grief and mourning, blocks to creativity, and other challenging psychological issues.

Dr. Kavaler-Adler is a prolific author, with five books and sixty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters related to complex object-relations clinical phenomena of developmental mourning, demon-lover complex, erotic transference, female creativity, and many others. She has received 15 awards for her writing in the field of psychoanalysis including the Gradiva Award from NAAP in 2004 and four competitive Arlene Wohlberg Memorial awards. 

Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s books are:  The Compulsion to Create:  Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge 1993, ORI Academic Press, 2013); The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity (Routledge, 1996, ORI Academic Press 2014); Mourning, Spiritualty and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2003, Gradiva award 2004); The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization in Vivid Case Studies (Karnac, 2013); Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: New Transformative Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory” (Karnac, 2014). 

For more information – visit www.kavaleradler.com .