OBJECT RELATIONS INSTITUTE

The Object Relations theories are based on the primacy of mother-infant relations and mother-infant internalizations in the shaping of each individual personality. The ORI was designed to and is filling the gap in the graduate and post-graduate training of psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals that come from various educational backgrounds... The Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis was founded in 1991, at a time when the critical clinical teachings of the British school of theory and clinical practice was greatly lacking in all psychoanalytic institute curriculums in New York City, and in the U.S. as a whole. Some of the clinical and developmental "truths" that we accept today, which were first articulated by the British Object Relations Theorists, were beyond the ken of American Psychoanalysts, and were lacking in the education that was taking place in the psychoanalytic institutes. Some of these "truths" pertain to the primacy of mother-..

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