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Introduction to the Object Relations Clinical Theory and Its Contributors
Instructor: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt
1st Trimester of Year 1 of the One-Year and Two-Year Certificate Programs in Object Relations Clinical Theory and Technique;
1st Trimester of Year 1 of the Full Training in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
(can be also taken as an individual post-graduate certificate course; no pre-requisites)
October 2, 2014 - December 11, 2014, Thursdays, 8:15-9:30pm.
Location: 115 East 9th Street (@ 3rd Avenue); 12P, NYC, 10003 or Virtual participation – via audio/video or audio only.
This course will introduce students to critical psychic structure issues related to character disorder pathology and the related developmental issues. Clinical technique will be addressed through both readings in British and American object relations theory, as well as in “in vivo” role playing demonstrations. Through the role playing, the students will have an opportunity to experience their patients from the inside out. Various character resistances will be discussed in relation to Donald W. Winnicott’s contributions to this topic, as well as to some representatives of American school of object relations, such Althea Horner and Thomas Ogden.
Post-graduate psychoanalytic education credits offered: 12.5hrs.
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.
For registration form, click HERE.
Readings:
1st week:
Althea Horner’s book, 2005, Jason Aronson, “Dealing with Resistance in Psychotherapy”
Introduction, pp. vii through xxiii.
Chapter 1: “The Core Relationship Problem as Resistance, pp. 1-14.
2nd Week:
Chapter 2: “Constructing the Developmental Hypothesis.”
3rd week:
“Countertransference Resistance and Therapeutic Impasse”
Next five week readings are from Thomas Ogden’s 1986 Jason Aronson book, “The Matrix of the Mind.”
4th week:
“The Matrix of the Mind,” chapters 1 and 2:
Chapter 1: “The Psychoanalytic Dialogue” pp. 1 through 9.
Chapter 2: “Instinct, Phantasy, and Psychological Deep Structure in the Work of Melanie Klein.”
5th week:
Chapter 3: “The Paranoid Schizoid Position: Self as Object,” pp. 3 - 63.
6th week:
Chapter 4: “The Depressive Position and the Birth of the Historical Subject,” pp. 67 – 100.
7th week:
Chapter 5: “Between the Paranoid Schizoid and Depressive Position,” pp. 101 - 130.
8th week:
Chapter 6: “Internal Object Relations,” pp. 131-166.
9th week:
Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s clinical article, from the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2005, “The Case of David.”
10th week:
Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s clinical article, from the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2006,
“Anatomy of Regret…” (about the transformation of a schizoid personality).
For more information, please contact Dr. Kavaler-Adler by email: DrKavalerAdler@gmail.com or phone 212-674-5425 or
contact ORI Administrator at 646-522-1056.
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2012 Conference
on Self-Sabotage: Jungian, Kleinian, and Fairbairnian Perspectives.
2011 Annual 20th Anniversary Conference on
Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as a Persecutory vs. a Holding
Object
2010 Annual Conference on
Psychoanalysis & Spirituality
2009 Annual
Conference on Eroticized Demonic Object
Intro to the Object Relations Thinking and
Clinical Technique
- with Dr. Kavaler-Adler (part 1).
Projective Identification:
Object Relations View (part 2 of the mini-video series)
Time as an Object - Object Relations view (part 3
of mini-video series)
Self Sabotage - Object Relations view
(part 4 of mini-video series)
Fear of Success - Object
Relations View (part 5 of mini-video series)
Mourning, Developmental
vs. Pathological (part 6)
Bad Objects and Loyalty to Bad Objects - Object Relations View (part 7)
Demon-lover Complex - Object Relations View
(part 8)
Psychic
Regret - Object Relations View (part 9)
Klein-Winnicott Dialectic - Object relations View (part 10)
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