OBJECT RELATIONS INSTITUTE - Key Persons

Alberto Meotti, in his interesting chapter on A Memoir of the Future, "A Dreamlike Vision", explores the possible meanings and intentions of Bion's last major oeuvre. He suggests that Bion proposes in the Trilogy "a sort of dream full of images, a kind of manifest content that could be the anticipation of a latent controversy that might involve in the future the collapse of a substantial part of present knowledge and the development of new psychoanalytic theories". The author's philosophical background emerges in his further suggestion that Bion has drawn on the servants of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit as a sort of model for the most innovative members of the group, who have to labour in the background with the most obscure matters in order to humanize the latter and make them generally accessible and useful. In his clarifying exploration and discussion of this difficult text, Meotti illuminates the reasons why Bion may have felt that the dreamlike vision was the most appropriate for his presentation of his ideas, and he touches on the very sombre side of Bion's theorizing on aggressiveness and destruction.

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• Assistant
• Editor

André Green, after a brief introduction in which he remarks amusingly on his credentials for having been invited to give the opening main lecture of the Conference, programmatically entitled "The Primordial Mind and the Work of the Negative", states the architectonics of his paper: "Bion's work can be divided into two categories: the first represents his attempts to build a new psychoanalytic theory which would not only be an extension of Freud's work or even of Klein's, but a contemporary new formulation of psychoanalysis starting from an entirely different point of view." This new formulation is that of psychoanalysis as a scientific deductive system, whereas the second category is that of Bion's "psychoanalytic science fiction". Green suggests that we apply Bion's own model to his thinking and wonders what we can learn from the experience of reading him: Green himself has picked out the theme of the primordial mind as the main path to follow in his study of Bion, and he illuminates most clearly the roots of Bion's thinking in Freud's. This pathway leads him to a very important discussion of the "negative" and shows how in Bion's work this concept has been deepened to include two different types of negative-"nothing" and "no thing", whose differentiation has very far-reaching consequences.

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• Chairman of the Education Committee
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Training Committee
• Chairman of Education

Ann Rose Simon is a Chair of Education, as well as she is a teaching faculty member, a supervisor and a Training Committee member at ORI. Ann Rose Simon offers a relationship-based approach to psychotherapy in a safe and comfortable environment. She works collaboratively with her patients to explore and understand one's feelings, struggles, dreams and fears. Through this process you will find that your personal relationships and your sense of "self" are strengthened and your professional life is enriched. You begin to live your life more fully. Ann Rose works with adults, adolescents, children and infants in individual, couple and family therapy. Her areas of special interest and expertise are relationship issues, pre- and post-natal counseling, adoptive parenting, divorce, and body image/eating disorders. Ann Rose Simon is a graduate of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program; and has done her postgraduate psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) and the Object Relations Institute (ORI), where she continues to teach and supervise. Ann is a co-director of the Parent-Child Development Program at ORI. In her private practice, she had developed the BabyBonds program that prepares new and expectant parents for the emotional challenges of their new role. Since 2004 part of her practice has been devoted to individuals with focal brain lesions due to stroke, trauma or other brain injuries. She also works with the caretakers of brain injured or neurologically impaired individuals. Ann Rose Simon is a member of The Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center of NPAP which provides services for this underserved population.

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• LCSW - R ( Honorary Member - Passed Away )
• ORI Chair of Admissions - at

Audrey Ashendorf, LCSW, ORI Chair of Admissions - at ashendorf@earthlink. We regret to announce that our beloved Audrey passed away in Fall 2017. ORI community had a memorial for Audrey at our 2017 Holiday party, and we will be dedicating our 2018 Annual conference to memory of Audrey Ashendorf, our former Chair of Admissions and a long-time Training Committee member. ORI is creating a special Audrey Ashendorf Scholarship Fund to help mental health practitioners in Belarus and other Eastern European countries striving for psychoanalytic object relations knowledge and training. Audrey Ashendorf, LCSW-R is a psychotherapist in private practice with over 25 years of experience, as well as a published poet. She earned her Master's degree from Columbia University, and is New York State certified. Post-Masters' training includes the Transactional Analysis Institute of New York and Connecticut, where the focus was on Cognitive and Gestalt approaches to behavioral change. She then went on to deepen and complete her understanding and techniques at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies where she earned a Certificate in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her work is further enriched by her training at the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy and a variety of other settings. Audrey Ashendorf has conducted seminars on social and psychological barriers to intimacy, career planning and stress management. She is Chairperson of Admissions and a supervisor at the Object Relations Institute of NY. She is a consultant to the New York City Police Dept. and has worked with individuals and groups to promote emotional resiliency and help officers deal effectively with stress. Audrey Ashendorf works with adolescents (from 15 and up), adults, couples, as well as she does private supervision. Her work is inter-active and customized to the individual. She is strongly influenced by object relations theorists, but draws upon various modalities she had trained in during her over 25 years of practice.

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• LCSW, Chairperson of Training

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• Member of the BPAS

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• Member of the Scientific Faculty

David P. Celani, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who practiced for more than twenty-five years in Burlington, Vermont. In treatment, he focused on his patients' "attachment to bad objects", which manifested through their inability to separate from parents, friends, or marital partners who demeaned, criticized, or abused them. Celani now presents continuing education workshops throughout the United States on Object Relations theory and on Fairbairn's developmental model of the human psyche and object relationships, including the new structural model of psyche based on attachment to bad objects proposed by R. Fairbairn. His books with Columbia University Press include Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting; The Illusion of Love: Why the Battered Woman Returns to Her Abuser, and Leaving Home: How to Separate From Your Difficult Family. He is currently working on his fifth book, on Ronald Fairbairn's theoretical model and its modern application, which will be published by Routledge. Dr. Celani has been teaching at ORI since 2020. His presentations, workshops and seminars at ORI include: 10/08/2023 Childhood Trauma and Psychological Development of a Mass Murderer Through the Lens of Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory (with David P. Celani, PhD) 6/11/2023 An Object Relations Approach to Parent-Child Interactions That Impact the Child's Emotional Development (with David P. Celani, PhD) 6/10/2023 An Object Relations Approach to Parent-Child Interactions That Impact the Child's Emotional Development (with David P. Celani, PhD) 10/02/2022 Fairbairn's Paradigm Shift to Developmental Model of Psychoanalysis as a Method and a Clinical Tool (with David Celani, PhD) 5/15/2022 Application of Fairbairn's Structural Metaphors for Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders: Hysteric, Obsessive, Narcissistic, and Borderline (with Dr. David P. Celani) 9/26/2021 Childhood trauma and psychological development of a mass murderer through the lens of Fairbairn's Object Relations theory (with David Celani, PhD) 10/08/2020-12/17/2020 Ronald Fairbairn's Psychoanalytic Model of the Human Psyche and Its Clinical Applications

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• Member of the Training Committee

In this workshop we will consider many forms of relating which involve varying degrees of "aliveness" between two partners whether they are lovers, married couples, or analyst -patient relationships. We will also consider the various dynamics involved in negotiating intimacy from the perspective of personal ecological distance, mutual deadness, mutual interaction and the trajectory of relational patters ranging from, tolerating, accepting, liking, and interest in each other whether that be unilateral or mutual. We will use clinical case material as well as film excerpts to illustrate the main points. A model of "zones of penetration" (Brok, 2010) will be presented for consideration of assessing degree of intimacy and involvement that is optimally allowed by any particular couple. Implications for friendship, romantic and therapeutic relationships will be presented. Dr. Brok has previously written that our narcissistically organized yet democratic society is treading a thin crossover line from relations organized around consideration, and interest in others (fundamental to profound enduring relationship building) to greedy self-aggrandizing, individualized independent, values and beliefs (Brok, 2007). Correlated with this is a fundamental desire in our narcissistically tinged American culture to do away with, to in effect "kill" time. In particular, because awareness of the passage of time is a narcissistic intrusion and a warning that death will eventually come. Time management and acceptance however is a crucial building block of coupling processes. In Analytic theory, we can go back to Freud, who posited the essential nature of social experience for the development of the Psyche. For example in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) he posited the unique significance of the pre -conflictual positive relationship between a child and his father, idealized as it was. Since then, modern and post - modern theories have taken seriously the dynamic ecology of intra psychic, relational and inter-subjective qualities in all human relations. One example of this latter notion is the film "Lars and the Real Girl". One of the striking aspects of the film is how the empathic understanding and non-intrusiveness of a caring social surround enables the natural developmental process of a highly schizoid individual to evolve from relying on a non-responsive object (large blow- up doll) to a living breathing person who has her own subjectivity. In this film, we marvel at how the protagonist slowly discovers the value of a being a transitional subject to others and develops an interest in a genuine other rather than an idealized, omnipotently created object.

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• Honorary Member - Passed Away in 2009 ) - Click Here to View in Memoriam Page
• Psychiatrist and Member of the British Psychoanalytic Society

Dr. Fayek NAKHLA , born in Egypt, January 4, 1933, died October 29th. After medical school in Egypt, he pursued a psychiatric residency in Denver, Colorado, and worked in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He then trained in psychoanalysis at the London Institute of Psychoanalysis. He came to New York City in 1968. In addition to his private practice, he was on the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and then became the director of psychiatric residency training at Brookdale University Hospital. He was a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association… "Dr. Fayek Nakhla, a psychiatrist and member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, trained in London at the time Winnicott attained prominence. In his book Picking Up the Pieces (1993), co-authored with his patient, Dr. Nakhla gives a rare chronicling of an analysis that was strongly influenced by Winnicott's work. The question, "How might an analyst make use of Winnicott's ideas?" is given one possible answer in Dr. Nakhla's book." - Sheila Ronsen, Introduction to Winnicott Roundtable

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• Honorary Member - Passed Away on January 25th, 2011 ) - Click Here to View in Memoriam Page
• Professor

Dr. Joyce McDougall was a major contributor to our field of psychoanalysis. A well-known, and largely celebrated, French psychoanalyst, Dr. McDougall, gave us the gift of a multitude of books and papers. I knew her as Joyce, since she became a regular presenter at the Object Relations Institute since we founded it in 1991. I felt privileged to be at many ORI conferences where Joyce presented, always with a graceful and related, and quite informative manner. Dr. Robert Weinstein, who helped me found ORI, played a major role in bringing Dr. Joyce McDougal to our conferences as a guest speaker. Upon her visits to us, Joyce shared her rich clinical examples, where she would relate the dialogue between herself and the patient. She brought home to us, first hand, the protosymbolic level of dissociated experience from the patient that the analyst feels. She brought home to us the primitive modes of symbolism within the concrete enactments of character-disordered patients, as well as the more psychologically mature symbolic communications in neurotic patients who are engaged in more classical analysis. She made clear that she understood the powerful messages of the major British object relations theorists, such as Melanie Klein and D. W. Winnicott, and was in tune with them in her belief that the mother-infant dyad was the bedrock of psychological experience and development. She noted Jacques Lacan's lack of understanding of this psychological axiom, now proven so repeatedly in infant research. As Dr. McDougall, Joyce published her most famous books: A Plea for a Measure of Abnormality, Dialogues with Sammy, Theatres of the Mind, Theatres of the Body, and The Many Faces of Eros. Although Joyce had been schooled early on in London by Anna Freud, when she had to leave Anna Freud's seminar to accompany her first husband to Paris, she also left behind a form of Freudian thinking that assumed a level of symbolic functioning and differentiated oedipal relations and conflicts that was lacking in all character-level disorders, i.e. in all those who suffered traumatic disruption in mother-child bonding before the separated, integrated, and individuated self was formed. Winnicott had spoken of the "false self "patient who was disrupted by such early trauma, that which Margaret Mahler later referred to as "developmental arrest." Joyce McDougall shared with us the clinical anguish of the psychoanalyst who deals with such patients with primal self-trauma by referring to Winnicott's own words, "We must admit that it is always fatiguing to be a bad breast" (see Joyce McDougal's "Donald Winnicott the man: reflections and recollections"). She agreed with Winnicott that, easy or not, being able to take the attacks from character-disordered patients (that were meant for the "bad breast" of the internal world) was a necessary anguish for the clinician that worked with such patients. In this sense, and in many others, Dr. Joyce McDougall was a true object relations theorist and clinician. But her most original contributions came in her books, such as in Theatres of the Body, where she offers graphic clinical example of how food can be used as primitive symbolic vehicle for the part-objects (breasts and penises) of internal-world-parents' sexual and nurturing parts, and which patients cannot yet put into symbolic ("linguistic") language. In her last book, The Many Faces of Eros, Dr. McDougall tackles difficult questions about gender identify and bi-sexuality within the unconscious world of fantasy that we call the "internal world." As always, she does this in clear clinical terms, through her case process examples. I was privileged to read Joyce's books, and also privileged to receive several of them as gifts from her. She was a generous and gracious person in all regards. Also due to her generosity, I received forewords from her for two of my published books: The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers, and Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis. Joyce also gave me a world-wide list of publishers, editors, and translators; because she believed I should have my books published in many different countries and languages. She also read one of my papers, on "The Supervisor as an Internal Object" to a large audience of psychoanalysts in Paris and gave me gracious feedback about the positive reception my paper received. In addition, I was able to present a case of my own to her at one of our ORI conferences, related to her interest in psychosomatic symptoms of unconscious psychological conflicts. When I reported that my patient's uterine bleeding stopped after a psychotherapy session with me, following many years of analyst-patient bonding in treatment, and that allowed the patient to avoid a hysterectomy and to heal, - Joyce interpreted the bleeding as the 30-something year old patient just reaching her psychological readiness for her adolescent pubescence in the bleeding of the monthly menses. I found this feedback from Joyce to be quite insightful and enlightening. I can remember Joyce McDougall in many ways. I still have two gold-framed Spanish artist's original prints in my office that were gifts from Joyce. She vacationed in Spain, where she had a villa, and she knew this visual artist who painted abstract prints with powerful psychological impacts. One of the two prints has a bull, in abstract form, coming just up under the breast of a bare, but abstract, part object, woman. The masculine and feminine interaction, or collision, depending on one's interpretation, is vividly painted in strong colorful strokes and forged into a printed form on the thick papered canvas. Although we all feel the loss of the brilliant and dynamic Joyce McDougall, we are grateful for the rich and fecund legacy that dr. McDougall left for all practitioners of psychoanalysis when she ended her full life at the age of 92. We miss you, Joyce, and cherish the abundant intellectual and clinical gifts that you have offered to our ever-struggling to survive field of psychoanalysis!

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• Member of the Scientific Faculty
• Member at ORI
• Professor Emeritus

Robinson Lilienthal, PhD - professor emeritus of philosophy, world religions, and applied ethics (including environmental, engineering, biomedical, and business) for thirty years; twenty of them - at Rutgers University. He is the scholar of Nietzsche and the environmental public policy consultant. His paper "The Mother, the Mountain, and the Mature Self: Three Tests of Environmental and Engineering Ethics" was published in September 2013 issue of the MindConsiliums, an on-line peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal (http://www.mindconsiliums.org/publications/2013/09/2013-09-Lilienthal-the-mother-the-mountain-and-the-mature-self-abstract). Dr. Robinson Lilienthal studied philosophy, religion, psychology, and history at Reed College, the Hartford Seminary Foundation, and at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. His Doctoral dissertation was on "Nietzsche's anatomy of nihilism: The philosopher as physician of culture." Since 2009, Dr. Lilienthal is a scientific faculty member at ORI. His first contributions to the ORI community were the ones he did together with Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld on the "Creative Use of Melancholia." He is currently working in the field of global cultural artifacts and their possible therapeutic application.

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• Advisor
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Training Committee
• ABPP, NCPsyA, DLitt, Executive Director, Senior Training Analyst & Supervisor
• ORI Founder & Executive Director - at

Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, D.Litt, NCPsyA is a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst for over 40 years and supervisor of psychotherapists practicing psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and group therapy, as well as a consultant for those involved in the wish to write for personal healing or for writing projects, related to her experience running writing groups in her practice for over 30 years. For more information on Dr. Kavaler-Adler's private practice and her unique approach to psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, please visit the Private Practice page. Dr Kavaler-Adler is also the Co-Founder, Executive Director, and Senior Faculty & Training Supervisor of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Kavaler-Adler has an honorary doctorate in literature, as well as a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and has a Diplomate status (ABPP) as a psychoanalyst from the American Psychological Association and the Division of Psychoanalysis. She also has had training as a dance therapist. Dr. Kavaler-Adler is a prolific author. She has written 6 books and 70 articles on issues of psychological interest that relate to clinical practice, healing, and particularly to issues of mourning and creativity for healing and psychic health. In her books and articles, she has written about such difficult and fundamental to psychological growth issues as fear of success, envy, resolving blocks to creativity, creative compulsion or blocks versus free motivation, and mourning and the opening of erotic desire and spirituality, along with the opening of the creative self. She has written also about fathers and daughters, and about finding one's voice in the world and in creative work, as well as on the capacity to surrender in life and in Argentine tango. Dr. Kavaler-Adler is acknowledged for her extensive work on defining a demon lover theme and complex that affects many women's lives, and has an article on the modern film version of "Phantom of the Opera." Her acclaimed articles include Mourning and Erotic Transference (International Journal of Psychoanalysis,1992), and Opening Up Blocked Mourning in the Preoedipal Character (American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1995). Dr. Kavaler-Adler has helped many in her practice to convert anxiety and depression into creative self expression in love and work. Her five well-known psychoanalytic published books are The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge, 1993; Other Press, 2000; ORI Academic Press, 2013); The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity (Routledge, 1996; ORI Academic Press, 2014); Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change (Routledge, 2003, National Gradiva® Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, 2004); Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization through Vivid Clinical Cases (Karnac, 2013); and The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory (Karnac, 2014). The most recent book, the 1st Volume of Sr. Kavaler-Adler's Collected Papers, titled Developmental Mourning, Erotic Transference, and Object Relations Psychoanalysis, was published in 2023 by IPBooks. She has won 16 other awards for her writing in the field of psychology and psychotherapy. Dr. Kavaler-Adler's first trade book, Saturday Nights at Lafayette Grill: True Tales & Gossips of NY City Argentine Tango Scene (MindMend Publishing, 2017), brings the reader into the center of New-York City Argentine tango craze and passion.

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• Administrator / Assistant & Program Developer / Coordinator

Eva D. Papiasvili, Ph.D., ABPP has been a Senior Clinical Faculty and Supervisor in the Doctoral program of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University in New York, for the past 30 years. She is the past Executive Director and Dean of the Institute of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society where she has been a Training and Supervising Analyst since 1996; Teaching, Supervising and Training Analyst, Object Relations Institute; Founder and Chair of the Psychoanalysis, Art and Creativity, www.psychartcreativity.org, an Affiliate of the International Association for the Arts and Psychology; Editorial Board member of the International Journal for Group Psychotherapy; a Guest Contributing Editor and Reader for the International Forum for Psychoanalysis and for the Psychoanalytic Inquiry. In 2014, she has been appointed a Co-Chair for North America (USA, Canada, Japan) of the IPA Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis Task Force.

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• Clinical Supervisor
• Honorary Member - Passed Away in 2022 ) - Click Here to View in Memoriam Page
• Retired

Harriet Wald was a clinical social worker and an analyst, formerly trained at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. She was an active ORI Board member for many years, and she taught the group supervision courses every year until her retirement from the ORI's faculty. Harriet was deeply engaged in getting to know each and every student and candidate in training. She loved all our students and candidates, and they loved her in return; they were very comfortable discussing any problems they had, professional, personal, or/and related to the training. Harriet was also an advisor and individual supervisor for many of our candidates in training. Harriet and Kenneth Wald's home in the Upper West Side was often a place for many of the Institute's events, including our graduations, open houses, and holiday parties. Harriet and Ken, both dedicated clinicians-analysts both embraced the Institute's ideas and its growth. For many years, they were very generous donors to ORI, who helped to sustain the Institute's programs at very affordable tuition rates. Harriet was a devoted mother to her daughter and son. And I saw her children grow up, along with the growing up of the Institute. Harriet Wald was also a dear friend of mine, and she and I shared many professional and personal concerns together. I never will forget Harriet's faith in the Institute, despite many challenging phases of development during the years that she served on the Board of Directors. Harriet had faith in me and my writing, and she read all of my books and articles on the Object Relations approaches to clinical treatment, and she was using them in her teaching at the ORI. Those of us who knew Harriet Wald during all her years as a devoted Board Member, committed clinician, supervisor, advisor, and supportive faculty member for the Object Relations Institute, will always remember Harriet with much appreciation! We miss her, and have missed her since her retirement. We remember her with love. Harriet Wald was one of the sweetest, most generous psychoanalysts I have known. Even in the throes of Parkinson's, Harriet's sly, witty, warm humor was always there. In matters professional and personal, her understanding and wisdom was tops. As a colleague and friend, I feel fortunate to have known Harriet. Harriet was a supervisor of mine after I graduated from Post Graduate Institute. Ken and I were in the same class and we all became friends. Together we shared the chance to be parents through adoption.

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• Chairman of the Admissions Committee
• Editor - in - Chief
• Member of the Scientific Faculty
• Administrator and Community Relations Coordinator - at
• Administrator and Community Relations Coordinator - at 646 - 522 - 0387 or
• Founder of the Neurorecovery Solutions

If contacting ORI for cancellations of the classes or return/shipment of the publications - please call Dr. Rozentsvit at 646-522-0387 or email her at admin@ORINYC.org. Dr. Rozentsvit is a scientific faculty member, as well as the programs director and administrator of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ORI) (www.orinyc.org). Her course on Neurobiology for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists and the Parent-Child development program at the ORI includes important for all mental health professionals topics: Psychic trauma and post-traumatic growth; Love before first sight: Attachment science, self-regulation, and parent-child relationships; Neurobiology of Self; Neurochemistry of emotions; Neurological disorders (Parkinson's disease, stroke, and Multiple Sclerosis) in the eyes of a psychotherapist; Neurobiology of psychosomatic illness; Neuroscience of anger and violence; and others. Many of these topics are included in her forthcoming book Neurobiology is Destiny: A Guide to Brain-Mind-Soul-Body Matters, which is designed for mental health professionals and the general public curious about their brain-mind-body wellness. Dr. Rozentsvit is a founder of the Neurorecovery Solutions, a non-profit organization which helps neurologically impaired, their families and caregivers in their often heart-breaking journey to well-being (www.neurorecoverysolutions.com). She is also an educator who works with families of children and adults diagnosed with developmental, learning or emotional disabilities, applying transdisciplinary approach - from the fields of neurology, general medicine, basic sciences, mental health, and pedagogy to solving puzzles of miscommunications and every-day interactions of these children and their parents. That is why she co-founded ParentsFirst!™ and Parents First Educational Network™, based on the fundamental paradigm shift: "from parenting to parenthood," so every parent feels nurtured, loved and supported, and shares these gifts with their children, families and communities, creating a legacy of unconditional love for all! (www.parentsfirst.net) Dr. Rozentsvit's other projects and interests include: MindMendMedia, Inc. (the publishing preparation company, mindmendmedia.com/portfolio/), PsychArtCreativity Study Group (www.psychartcreativity.org), ArtEcoWellness™ initiative (artecowellness.com), SELP Life Changers (selplifechangers.com) and Celebrating Neurodiversity 365™ (celebratingneurodiversity365.com) projects, and PayItForward™ Auctions for nonprofits (payitforwardauctions.org), just to name a few. Contact us by Fax @ 718.785.3270; Email: admin@ORINYC.org or adminorinyc@gmail.com Inquiries about psychotherapy and psychoanalysis training should be directed to DrKavalerAdler@gmail.com or InnaRozentsvit@gmail.com Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (Training Foundation) is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit educational organization. EIN # 133697333. Your donations are tax-deductible, while they help tremendously to keep down the costs of our training and to continue to offer free educational activities and events. To contribute, please use PayPal.Me/ORINYC for direct PayPal payments and/or credit card payments.

Jack Schwartz, LCSW, PsyD, NCPsyA graduated from the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis, where he is a faculty member, lecturer and control analyst. He is a NAAP Nationally Certified Psychoanalyst, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor. He holds degrees from Fairleigh Dickinson University Yeshiva University (where he received the Distinguished Graduate Student Award) and International University. He served as the Senior Forensic Psychologist in Passaic County New Jersey for over 15 years, specializing in criminal investigations, probation, child custody issues, and has regularly served the court as an expert witness. Dr. Schwartz maintains a full private practice in Northern New Jersey, working with children, adolescents, couples and adults. He frequently lectures on dream analysis, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Resilience and other matters related to the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He is a regular contributor to the New Jersey Institute Viewpoints newsletter, and is the editor for the NJ Clinical Social Worker highly regarded newsletter, the Forum. Dr. Schwartz has written both short fiction, and technical articles on Dream Analysis and Holocaust Survivors, and has published a psychoanalytic novel, Our Time is Up, available on Amazon, soon to be an e-book.

Dear Family, I am so sorry to hear of Harriet's passing. She was indeed a warm and generous human being. Harriet served the NYS Society for Clinical Social Work as Met Chapter President in the ‘80s and taught for many years. We will miss her.

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• Member of the Scientific Faculty

Jeffrey B. Rubin, Ph.D. practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy in New York City and North Salem, NY. He teaches at The Object Relations Institute of NY, The American Institute of Psychoanalysis, and the C. G. Jung Institute of NY. The author of six books (A Psychoanalysis for Our Time; The Good Life, Psychotherapy and Buddhism, The Art of Flourishing, Meditative Psychotherapy, and Practicing Meditative Psychotherapy), he has taught at various psychoanalytic institutes and meditation and yoga centers and lectured around the country and abroad on psychoanalysis and psychoanalysis and Buddhism/meditation. Jeffrey is most interested in a pluralistic psychoanalysis that respects the genuine insights and practices from each analytic tradition and draws on the best that has been thought and said from all psychoanalytic schools as well as history, art, literature, anthropology and anything that illuminates the human condition. His pioneering approach to therapy was featured in the New York Times Magazine: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/magazine/26zen-t.html. His can be contacted at drjeffreyrubin.com or jeffreyrubinphd@gmail.com.

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• Member of the Board of Directors

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• Member of the Scientific Faculty

JOHN GRACE RANTER , an opera in two acts, music by Michael Sahl and lyrics by Margaret Yard, APRN is considered to be one of the few operas written with a psychiatric subject and contains narrative lyrics regarding the nursing role and nursing interventions differing from the psychiatrists position in managing a difficult newly admitted patient. The newly admitted patient is a cult leader named John Grace Ranter who was arrested for inciting arson, and sent to the forensic unit of a large urban medical center. The opera was performed ON THE AIR May 21 on David Garland's EVENING MUSIC WNYC-FM (93.9 FM) and The Theater for New City, January 21, as well as presented by the American Opera Projects, Inc. at the Soho Center for New Opera and Music Theatre. HIRSCH ENTERTAINMENT, INC. has written that JOHN GRACE RANTER "creates impassioned lines for dramatic voices, in a rich mix of romantic and popular music languages."

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• Honorary Member - Passed Away on August 24th, 2011 ) - Click Here to View in Memoriam Page

Late Jeff Seinfeld once said to me that Fairbairn taught us that we as individuals have a need to be "seen" for who we are. Unlike Klein, Fairbairn made the radical departure from Freud's drive theory and placed the need to search and relate to others as the fundamental motivational drive. And in only the context of that interpersonal field do we establish internal object relational paradigms that organize our sense of self and capacity to engage the world, in both healthy and non-healthy ways. The case that will be mentioned involves a young man, tormented by inner saboteurs, internalized at a young age and later reinforced throughout his life, and through his search to be "seen" and related to at his most vulnerable level, enabled him to move his life forward beyond all expectation. "Fairbairn developed a theory of endopsychic structure that completely reformulated psychoanalytic theory. In other words the outside experienced is internalized and structured into psychological affective constructs or components which in turn are then expressed within the context of a relational experience, and between the aspects of the components themselves. Thus, instead of seeing relationships as the result of drive discharge, tension reduction, his theory saw self-expression in the context of relational paradigms, specifically he postulated the inherent human drive is to form relationships, make connections, as the foundation of all psychic functioning…"

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• Member of the Training Committee

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• Member of the Training Committee

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• Member of the Scientific Faculty

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• Administrator, Registrar, Web Editor, & Community Relations Coordinator

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• Chaplain
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member of the Training Committee
• Asst. Professor
• Member of the Longstanding Death Seminar at Columbia University

Dr Yard is a published poet and lyricist. Her poetry may be found in "History of Silence", 1998, and in 2010, "Death Steps" describes human struggle with illness from a social and psychoanalytical viewpoint. Dr. Margaret Yard is an Asst. Professor, Lehman College, CUNY, Faculty, Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, Alumni Program in International Trauma Studies, Columbia University, Alumni Adult Psychoanalytic Program and Analytic Group Therapy Programs, Post Graduate Center for Mental Health, Past President Post-Graduate Psychoanalytic Society, Co-Chair Educational and Training Programs, Faculty for Psychoanalytic Training, Object Relations Institute and Washington Square Institute. She is a faculty and training supervisor for Chinese American Psychoanalytic Association (CAPA) and teaches psychoanalysis in Beijing and Singapore. She is a Chair of the Province Review Board for Dominican Fathers and Brothers of the Affirming and Protecting Children and Young People Program as well as consultant for contemplative monastic communities for nuns in the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church. In private practice in psychoanalysis, group practice, family practice, trauma and geriatrics, she was first responder on 9/11 at World Trade Center working with the American Red Cross. In geriatrics, she was guest lecturer on "How to Speak with Alzheimer's" with The New York State Alzheimer's Association, working with experiential groups with spouses and caretakers of Alzheimer's patients. She developed and taught a series: "Helping the Helpers" with secondary trauma or compassion fatigue experienced by professionals and volunteers who work with trauma victims. Dr Yard is a member of the longstanding Death Seminar at Columbia University and teaches Loss, Grief, Death and Dying to undergraduates and graduate university programs for nurses, administrators, social work and sociology students. She is a Foundation Member of the New York Zen Contemplative Care Program and is a death vigil participant for Visiting Nurse Service of New York (NYVNS). Her most recent article is "Cyberlife and the Colonization of Intersubjectivity" is published in Winter, 2010, Psychoanalytic Psychology. At Lehman College, CUNY, she teaches a course: Real world and Cyberspace Relationships." She writes on the effects of science and technology on human intersubjectivity and relations, and the phenomenon of death from a Humanist and contemplative perspective. She is currently working on an article entitled "The Role of Trauma in Religious Belief, a chapter "Inequality in Care," and a book entitled "VITALITY."

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• Member of the Scientific Faculty

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• Member of the Scientific Faculty

Otto Fenichel was born 2.12.1897 in Vienna and died on 22.1.1946 in Los Angeles. He was and is one of the most fascinating figures of the second generation of psychoanalysts. Although his work could have been forgotten in the jungle of subsequent new theories, part-theories and overlapping new concepts, and the force of time - it has been nearly 70 years since his death - could have pushed Fenichel to archives of psychoanalysis, it did not happen. Whoever returns to the essence of psychoanalysis as formulated by Freud (libido, unconsciousness, repression, topographic and structural models, dynamic and economic points of view), will sooner or later come across Fenichel. A vigorous critic of contemporary writings, and of divergent tendencies in psychoanalysis which emerged as early as in the twenties and thirties (represented predominantly by Klein and her followers), Fenichel was an orthodox Freudian in a positive sense of the word: with brilliant theoretical and clinical insights, an excellent teacher and a prolific author who contributed virtually to all features of contemporary psychoanalysis between the years 1920 - 1945. One of his many important historical credits is formation and recognition of the Prague psychoanalytical group as the Study Group of the IPA in 1936 on the 14 th IPA Congress in Marienbad. Otto Fenichel studied medicine in Vienna between years 1915 - 1921. He begun to visit lectures of Sigmund Freud already in 1915 and participated in meetings of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society since 1918 and since May 1920 he was a member of the Society. He started his personal analysis with Paul Federn, and he continued his analysis in Berlin Institute with SándorRadó after his move to Berlin in 1922. Before Berlin, being still in Vienna, he was engaged in Jugendbewegung (youth movement) where also other future analysts took part, like Siegfried Bernfeld, Wihelm and Annie Reich and Ernest Simmel. This movement were connecting the sexual science inspired by psychoanalysis with social freedom. This Fenichel's interest found its continuation in so called "Kinderseminars" (child seminars) organised outside of the Berlin Institute as a "left fraction" of young psychoanalysts where both Reichs also E. Jacobson, E. Fromm, G. Gero and some others took part. Their goal was to unify Marxism and psychoanalysis. In 1930 Fenichel became a member of the German Psychoanalytical Society. After the Hitler ‘a fascist party (NSDAP) had taken over the political power in Germany, Fenichel moved to Oslo where he helped to form the Norwegian psychoanalysis. In 1934 he started to write and send so called circular letters (Rundbriefe) to his political "small circle", colleagues from Berlin "Kinderseminar". In autumn 1935 (September/October) he moved to Prague to take over the leadership (instead of Frances Déri who moved to Los Angeles) of small psychoanalytic group consisting of Jewish analysts (Annie Reich, Stef Bornstein, Henry Loewensfeld) who emigrated from Hitler's Germany, and also of some Czechs (and some others). This group had started its work in summer 1933. Fenichel stayed in Prague until the beginning of May 1938, when he moved to Los Angeles in the USA. In Prague he wrote 29 circular letters/Rundbriefe. Otto Fenichel published around forty articles between "Introjektion und Kastrationkomplex" (1925) and "Neurotic Acting Out" (1945). Building on his works, and upon countless other analysts of his time, Fenichel produced his famous encyclopedic textbook of 1945 Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis, which belonged for a long time to basic readings in majority of psychoanalytic institutes in the world. Fenichel's work Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique (1941) is until now inspiring reading, still today recommended to students of psychoanalysis. Fenichel's essay on Anti-Semitism is excellent original work in which external and internal realities are integrated into deep insightful understanding of anti-Semitic and xenophobic behaviors. After his emigration to the USA Fenichel was hiding his interest in Marxism but he has never given up an idea that broader social factors - external reality - play an important part if the formation of neurotic disorders. Strong belief in Marxism was historical error of many left intellectuals in the 30ties (XX.century), and Fenichel belonged to them. Nevertheless, external reality and its influences (not only traumatic ones) cannot be overlooked in current psychoanalytic theorizing. Because of detrimental external reality Fenichel had to repeatedly emigrate (Oslo, Prague, Los Angeles). Nazi and communist ideologies interfered severely also with the development of Czech psychoanalysis (psychoanalysis had to be kept dozens of years in the social underground). Fenichel with his complicated personal traumatic history, with his Freudian orientation, with his substantial contribution to origins of Czech psychoanalysis, with his extensive stress on external social reality, and with his wandering Marxism, with his tremendous effort to spread and develop Freudian psychoanalysis - all this fits well to Czech psychoanalytic mind as it had been formed during the XX. century. It is then more than logic that the Czech Psychoanalytical Society has decided to organize in Prague regular Fenichel Conferences devoted to his legacy. We plan to choose psychoanalytic topics and their overlap to philosophy, history, politics, and social sciences. We want to choose various Fenichel's works or ideas and let them test by current psychoanalytic views. We plan to have small discussion groups on each conference. We plan to invite not only psychoanalysts but also professionals from other specialities. We will welcome as participants also students from various universities. We would like to create a forum for open exchange of psychoanalytic ideas and concepts within current multi-theoretical psychoanalysis, and to create a dialogue with other humanities.

Paulo Cesar Sandler deals in his contribution with the core problem of thinking and attempts to help us focus more on thinking than on thought-expanding one of the more penetrating intuitions of Bion's theory. Through the constant emphasis and practice of paradox and brilliant, somewhat surprising suggestions as a way of keeping our minds free and open, the author suggests that the digestive model and the reproductive one of the thinking activity should be integrated and consolidated in a working model for our comprehension of the analytical session as well as of life itself. We hope the reader can feel the same sense of "sane" confusion and richness of stimuli to be worked through, when reading his chapter, as we felt when editing it for the book. Actually, this book was prepared to stimulate free thinking, as we share the author's idea that "Thinking allows a marriage of the person with his or her inner reality, instinctual needs, and real possibilities and limitations-the person as he or she really is. With the aid of thinking processes one is able to reach some partial knowledge of who one is in reality. To know, to think, to live, and to love are inseparable facts, made separate by failures in thinking."

Rafael Art. Javier is long-standing Faculty member at the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where he teaches a course (during the First Year of training) on Freud as an Object Relations Thinker. Dr. Javier is also a Professor of Psychology and the Director Inter-agencies Training and Research Initiatives and the Post-Graduate Professional Programs at St. John's University. He also functioned as the first Director of the Center for Psychological Services and Clinical Studies at St. John's University for almost 20 years. He is currently on the faculty and a supervisor at New York University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, and the Object Relations Institute. Prior to joining St. John's University, he was the head of psychology at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center and on the faculty at Downstate Medical Center.

Nevid, J., Javier, R.A. & Moulton III, J.L. (1996). Factors predicting participant attrition in a community-based culturally-specific smoking cessation program for Hispanic smokers. Health Psychology, 5(3), 226-229. Javier, R.A. & Yussef, M. (1998). A Latino perspective on the role of ethnicity in the development of moral values: Implications for psychoanalytic theory and practice. In R.A. Javier & W.G. Herron (Eds.), Personality development and psychotherapy in our diverse society: A source book. Northvale, N.J: Jason Aronson.

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• Clinical Professor

Ruth Danon is Clinical Professor of Creative and Expository Writing at the McGhee Division of New York University, where she directs both the Creative and Expository Writing Programs. A 1999 graduate of the psychoanalytic training program at the Object Relations Institute, she conducts a private practice working mainly with artists and writers. She is a poet and essayist and is deeply devoted to the work of D.W. Winnicott, the poet of psychoanalytic theory.

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• Member of the Board of Directors

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, Supervisor, Training Analyst, Faculty National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysts (NPAP). Director of Education, Member, Supervisor, Training Analyst, Former Dean of Training Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA). Member, Supervisor, Training Analyst Faculty, Object Relations Institute (Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis). Courses taught for ORI: READING WILFRED BION: Theory, Function and Clinical Practice; Second Thoughts: A Second Trimester of Reading Wilfred Bion; From ‘Attention' to ‘Faith': A Freud-Bion Dialectic; and Caesura and Thalassa; A Dialectical Playground with FREUD - FERENCZI - BION .

I knew Harriet as a friend and, at one remove, as a therapist (she and my wife trained at the same post graduate institute in New York City). She was naturally gifted as a therapist - both warm and shrewd, giving her patients the sustenance they needed, while spotting their defenses and internal contradictions. As a friend she was a delight. Though she could not tell a joke, she was one of the funniest people I ever met: her laugh consumed her, and she had a wonderful vein of silliness (example: the word ugly-bugly, which, she explained, is thirty thousand times uglier than just plain ugly). She took pleasure in your joys, and was always up for something new. More: she was as generous as she was loyal. She stuck by her friends through illness or disappointment, and gave of herself to help them through it. She was sorely tried in her last years, by assaults to her body and to her mind. That is now over. I will miss her dearly. Rest in peace, Harriet.

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