Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Who has the final authority to interpret a dream?

For psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Montague Ullman, the answer was clear: the dreamer.

This summer, the Object Relations Institute will offer Dream Interpretation and Appreciation: Montague Ullman’s Visionary Method, a 10-week experiential course led by Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD.

Ullman developed a structured group method that approaches dreams without imposing a predetermined interpretation. The dreamer retains authority over the dream’s meaning, while other participants contribute images, emotional resonances, metaphors, and possible associations. Interpretation becomes a collaborative process of discovery rather than an expert pronouncement.

Through the close exploration of dreams, participants will examine how unfinished emotional concerns, memory, creativity, and relational experience may find expression in dream imagery. Each meeting will include a brief meditation practice, intensive work with a dream, discussion of selected readings, and reflection on the group process.

The course is designed for mental health clinicians, candidates and advanced trainees, as well as participants interested in dreams, self-exploration, and the psychology of meaning.

Dream Interpretation and Appreciation: Montague Ullman’s Visionary Method
Instructor: Jeffrey B. Rubin, PhD
Format: Virtual Live
Dates: Tuesdays, July 14–September 22, 2026
Time: 7:30–9:30 p.m. ET
Continuing Education: 14.5 CE hours for APA, New York State psychologists, and New York State social workers

Course information and registration are available on the ORI website - https://orinyc.org/7-14-9-22-2026-730-930pm-et-dream-interpretation-and-appreciation-montague-ullmans-visionary-method-with-dr-jeffrey-b-rubin/

Aging is often treated in clinical training as a late-life specialty topic, or as a problem of cognitive decline, depression, dementia, medical vulnerability, and loss.

This seminar begins from a different premise: aging is not a marginal concern in clinical work. It is a lifespan process that requires neurobiological, psychodynamic, relational, and existential formulation.

In The Aging/Ageless Brain–Mind Constellation: From Neuroplasticity and Connectome to Clinical Wisdom, Dr. Inna Rozentsvit applies Functional PsychoNeuroBiology® to the aging brain–mind, examining how neurobiological reorganization, altered regulatory capacity, changing attachment configurations, and shifts in reflective functioning appear in clinical practice.

The course asks clinicians to think beyond a simple deficit model.

An older adult’s apparent cognitive decline may reflect normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, depression, chronic stress, medication burden, sleep disruption, social isolation, or the loss of co-regulating relationships. These distinctions are not academic. They shape assessment, treatment planning, and the clinician’s moment-to-moment response.

The seminar also considers aging as a clinical field in which the clinician’s own associations to dependency, bodily vulnerability, mortality, and loss may enter the work.

For post-graduate mental health professionals, this course offers a framework for thinking clinically about aging as brain process, mind process, relational process, and meaning-making process.

The Aging/Ageless Brain–Mind Constellation
with Inna Rozentsvit, MD, PhD
July 11 & 18, 2026 | Virtual Live | 9.0 CE Hours for APA, NYS Psychologists, NYS Social Workers

Registration: https://orinyc.org/aging-ageless-brain-mind-constellation-neuroplasticity-connectome-july-2026-ori-continuing-education/

ORI is pleased to share an upcoming book celebration for Amy C. Hudnall’s German Prisoners of the Second World War in the United States.

This new historical study examines the lives of German prisoners of war held on American soil during World War II, with attention to camp policy, internal conflict, violence, psychological trauma, and the ethical questions surrounding prisoner treatment.

For clinicians, historians, psychoanalytic thinkers, and students of trauma, the book opens an important interdisciplinary conversation: how do political systems, institutional policies, group dynamics, and historical violence shape psychic life?

Hudnall’s work invites us to consider not only the historical record, but also the psychological consequences of captivity, stigma, aggression, bystanding, and survival.

Book Celebration
Amy C. Hudnall’s German Prisoners of the Second World War in the United States
Date: June 28, 2026
Details and registration: https://mindmendmedia.com/6-28-26-book-celebration-amy-c-hudnalls-german-prisoners-of-the-second-world-war-in-the-united-states/

JOIN US FOR “INTERSUBJECTIVITY ON THE WORLD STAGE” COURSE ON JUNE 6 & 13
For most of its history, psychoanalysis focused inward — on drives, defenses, and the internal world of the individual patient. One isolated mind, working on another.

The intersubjective turn asks a different question: what if the most important things happening in treatment are not located inside either person, but between them? What if development, trauma, and healing are all constituted in the space of human encounters, not merely influenced by it, but made possible by it?

This is the question at the heart of intersubjectivity as a psychoanalytic orientation. And it has been answered very differently across three psychoanalytic cultures.
In North America it emerged from phenomenological philosophy, infant research, self psychology, and relational and interpersonal theories centering the analytic encounter as a mutually influencing field.

In France and Europe, it developed along entirely different lines — rooted in a different reading of Freud, a different relationship to language and the unconscious, and the legacies of Lacan and Laplanche. It raises pointed critiques of the American relational paradigm that are worth taking seriously.

In Latin America yet another set of frameworks developed — and many Latin American analysts, working in social and political contexts that "irrupted" into consulting rooms in ways their counterparts elsewhere rarely experienced, were intersubjectivists in practice long before they were in theory.

INTERSUBJECTIVITY ON THE WORLD STAGE — A TWO-SESSION CE COURSE WITH EVA D. PAPIASVILI, PHD, ABPP — places these three traditions into genuine dialogue. Not to flatten their differences, but to let their convergences and disagreements illuminate each other.

This course is already underway, with Part II scheduled for June 13.
Registration remains open for those who would still like to join us. All registrants will receive the reading materials and recordings for both parts of the course.

Virtual · June 6 & 13, 2026 · 12–3:30 pm EDT 9 CE Hours (APA · NYS Psychologists · NYS Social Workers) · 6.5 CE (Licensed Psychoanalysts)
REGISTER: https://orinyc.org/6-6-26-6-13-26-intersubjectivity-on-the-world-stage/

Join our FB Group "Psychodynamic and Object Relations Community": https://www.facebook.com/groups/psychodynamicandobjectrelationscommunity

WHEN INTERGENERATIONAL MEMORY BECOMES A NOVEL:
JONATHAN HAMMEL AND “THE JEWISH HOSPITAL”
In the darkest of times, some chose to remember — so the rest of us never forget.

Join us on TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2026, 1:00–3:00 PM EDT for a very special EASAPP hybrid event, hosted at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus (113 West 60th Street, Room 604, NYC) — and live on Zoom for those joining from afar.

What does it mean to carry a family's memory — and transform it into a story the world can read?
This is the question at the heart of our afternoon with Dr. Jonathan Hammel, Paris-based physician and author of the new novel THE JEWISH HOSPITAL (Skyhorse Publishing, June 2026). In a conversation spanning history, family testimony, and the power of narrative, Dr. Hammel will share how his grandmother Gerda Haas — a nurse at Berlin's Jewish Hospital during World War II — inspired a work of fiction that is also a profound act of remembrance.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Berlin, 1942. In a city governed by fear and ruled by the quiet machinery of N**i terror, young nurse Lena Schild arrives at the Jewish Hospital — the last refuge of its kind still operating during the Third Reich, where every patient, doctor, and nurse was Jewish, under Gestapo oversight in the very heart of N**i Berlin. What begins as an escape from a harsh life in Munich soon becomes something far more perilous. Living and working alongside her bold and brilliant friend Sophie, Lena steps into a world where every act of care is an act of courage, and every choice carries a weight she never imagined.
Inspired by the haunting true history of Berlin's Jewish Hospital — and by the lived experience of the author's own grandmother — The Jewish Hospital is a story of quiet defiance and the extraordinary resilience of those who struggled to keep humanity alive in the darkest of times.
The book has been recognized by Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage (NYC), which called it "an important contribution to Holocaust remembrance." It is being featured in teacher training programs and educator seminars across the United States.

WHAT READERS AND SCHOLARS ARE SAYING:
"A gripping, tender World War II novel… I cried, I raged, I despaired — and I believed." — Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
"Suspenseful to the very end… will quicken your pulse as each life-altering decision unfolds." — Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones
"Riveting and deeply human… I was reminded of* All the Light We Cannot See." — Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project
"A moving and dramatically intense novel." — Serge Klarsfeld, N**i hunter, lawyer, and historian

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Dr. Jonathan Hammel is a Paris-based physician and novelist whose debut novel Stéthos & Cie won the Hippocrates Book Prize. The Jewish Hospital was born from years of research, family testimony, and visits to the hospital in Berlin. In addition to his medical practice, Hammel is a pianist, composer, and host of the Bloodflow podcast.
This event is both a book celebration and an exploration of how intergenerational storytelling keeps history alive — and why it matters more than ever.

In-person capacity is limited — RSVP by 5pm EDT on Monday, June 8th. Online attendance is open to all.
REGISTER HERE: https://ngo-easapp.org/6-9-26-when-intergenerational-memory-becomes-a-novel-jonathan-hammel-and-the-jewish-hospital/

EASAPP is an Affiliate Substantive Committee of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (CoNGO) in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations, dedicated to ending antisemitism and promoting peace through education, dialogue, and cultural engagement.

Hope to see you on Tuesday, June 9th!

INTERSUBJECTIVITY ON THE WORLD STAGE
Psychoanalytic Cultures of North America, Latin America & Europe

Based on the IPA's Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

A live virtual course with Eva D. Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP
Inter-Regional Coordinating Co-Chair, IPA IRED

Two Saturdays · June 6 & 13, 2026 · 12:00–3:30 pm EDT

9 CE Hours for APA · NYS Psychologists · NYS Social Workers
6.5 CE Hours for Licensed Psychoanalysts

https://orinyc.org/6-6-26-6-13-26-intersubjectivity-on-the-world-stage/

The intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis is not primarily a theoretical shift. It is a clinical one.

In the one-person model, the analyst holds authority as the one who knows — interpreting the patient's unconscious from a position of relative objectivity. The patient's attributions to the analyst are transference. The analyst's reactions are countertransference to be managed.

The two-person model asks for something different from us. The analyst is not outside the field — she is a participant in it. Transference and countertransference are not one-directional but co-created. What happens between analysts and patient is not located inside either person alone but in the intersection of two subjectivities. The analyst's own subjectivity — including what Owen Renik called her “irreducible subjectivity” — is not an interference to be overcome but a constitutive element of the analytic process.

This has direct implications for how we listen, how we understand enactments, how we work with rupture and repair, and how we think about what it means to be present in the room with another person.

The course also draws on findings from affective developmental neuroscience — specifically, research on right-hemisphere-to-right-hemisphere communication between members of the therapeutic dyad, mirror neuron systems, and the neurobiological basis of embodied attunement — that illuminate how emotional states are communicated between people at a level beneath conscious awareness.

Trauma, in this view, is not an instinctual flooding of an isolated container — it is an experience of unbearable affect that cannot find what Robert Stolorow calls “a relational home in which it can be held.” The wound is not only the event. It is the aloneness inside the event.

If that is true, then healing must also happen intersubjectively — through what Stolorow describes as emotional dwelling: staying present with another's unbearable pain without flinching from one's own existential vulnerability. We can do this, he argues, because we meet each other as “siblings in the same darkness.”

This course places these clinical and neurobiological insights within the context of three distinct psychoanalytic traditions — North American, French/European, and Latin American — each of which has arrived at intersubjectivity differently, with different theoretical implications and, in some cases, pointed disagreements.

The course starts tomorrow, June 6. Registration is still open.

We hope you will join us.

JOIN US FOR “INTERSUBJECTIVITY ON THE WORLD STAGE” COURSE ON JUNE 6 & 13

For most of its history, psychoanalysis focused inward — on drives, defenses, and the internal world of the individual patient. One isolated mind, working on another.
The intersubjective turn asks a different question: what if the most important things happening in treatment are not located inside either person, but between them? What if development, trauma, and healing are all constituted in the space of human encounters, not merely influenced by it, but made possible by it?

This is the question at the heart of intersubjectivity as a psychoanalytic orientation. And it has been answered very differently across three psychoanalytic cultures.
In North America it emerged from phenomenological philosophy, infant research, self psychology, and relational and interpersonal theories centering the analytic encounter as a mutually influencing field.

In France and Europe, it developed along entirely different lines — rooted in a different reading of Freud, a different relationship to language and the unconscious, and the legacies of Lacan and Laplanche. It raises pointed critiques of the American relational paradigm that are worth taking seriously.

In Latin America yet another set of frameworks developed — and many Latin American analysts, working in social and political contexts that "irrupted" into consulting rooms in ways their counterparts elsewhere rarely experienced, were intersubjectivists in practice long before they were in theory.

INTERSUBJECTIVITY ON THE WORLD STAGE — A TWO-SESSION CE COURSE WITH EVA D. PAPIASVILI, PHD, ABPP — places these three traditions into genuine dialogue. Not to flatten their differences, but to let their convergences and disagreements illuminate each other.
THE COURSE STARTS THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 6. REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN — JOIN US.

Virtual · June 6 & 13, 2026 · 12–3:30 pm EDT
9 CE Hours (APA · NYS Psychologists · NYS Social Workers) ·
6.5 CE (Licensed Psychoanalysts)

REGISTER: https://orinyc.org/6-6-26-6-13-26-intersubjectivity-on-the-world-stage/

Join our FB Group "Psychodynamic and Object Relations Community": https://www.facebook.com/groups/psychodynamicandobjectrelationscommunity

Not everyone finds relational approaches convincing.

This course is also for those who have found themselves skeptical.

French psychoanalytic thinking on intersubjectivity developed along distinct lines — rooted in a different reading of Freud, a different relationship to language and the unconscious, and the legacies of Lacan and Laplanche. It stresses the "unconscious subject" and its formation in relation to the real other, and it raises pointed critiques of the American relational paradigm that are worth taking seriously.

Intersubjectivity on the World Stage — a two-session CE course with Eva D. Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP — places these traditions into genuine dialogue. Not to flatten the differences, but to let the convergences and disagreements illuminate each other.

INTERSUBJECTIVITY ON THE WORLD STAGE (CE COURSE)
Virtual · June 6 & 13, 2026 · 12–3:30 pm EDT
9 CE Hours (APA · NYS Psychologists · NYS Social Workers) · 6.5 CE (Licensed Psychoanalysts)

REGISTER: https://orinyc.org/6-6-26-6-13-26-intersubjectivity-on-the-world-stage/

Join our FB Group “Psychodynamic and Object relations Community” at https://www.facebook.com/groups/psychodynamicandobjectrelationscommunity

What does it mean that many Latin American analysts were intersubjectivists in practice long before they were in theory?

Working in social and political contexts that "irrupted" into consulting rooms in ways their European and North American counterparts rarely experienced, they were already treating the analytic encounter as a mutually influencing field — before the paradigm had a name.
This is one of three psychoanalytic traditions examined in Intersubjectivity on the World Stage, a two-session CE course with Eva D. Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP, based on the IPA's Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis.

North American, French/European, and Latin American traditions — placed into genuine dialogue, with their convergences and their disagreements both taken seriously.

INTERSUBJECTIVITY ON THE WORLD STAGE (CE COURSE)

Virtual · June 6 & 13, 2026 · 12–3:30 pm EDT
9 CE Hours (APA · NYS Psychologists · NYS Social Workers) · 6.5 CE (Licensed Psychoanalysts)

REGISTER: https://orinyc.org/6-6-26-6-13-26-intersubjectivity-on-the-world-stage/

Join our FB Group “Psychodynamic and Object relations Community” at https://www.facebook.com/groups/psychodynamicandobjectrelationscommunity

INTERSUBJECTIVITY
In Psychoanalytic Cultures of North America, Latin America & Europe
with Eva D. Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP
Virtual Live Course
June 6 & 13, 2026 (12–3:30 PM EDT)
9 CE Hours for APA (covers most mental health professions outside of NYS), NYS Psychologists, NYS Social Workers
6.5 CE Hours for Licensed Psychoanalysts (from NAAP)
Registration - https://orinyc.org/6-6-26-6-13-26-intersubjectivity-on-the-world-stage/

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to join us for a timely and intellectually rich course exploring INTERSUBJECTIVITY as one of the most influential and far-reaching developments in contemporary psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice.

What happens between analyst and patient is never only “inside” one mind.

Contemporary psychoanalysis increasingly recognizes that emotional meaning, unconscious communication, enactment, affect regulation, and analytic transformation emerge within a dynamic intersubjective field between patient and analyst. Across psychoanalytic traditions, thinkers have increasingly moved beyond exclusively one-person models of mind toward theories emphasizing relational process, mutual influence, subjectivity, field dynamics, and co-constructed meaning.

This course examines how that paradigm shift unfolded differently across North American, French/European, and Latin American psychoanalytic traditions — each developing distinct yet overlapping ways of conceptualizing intersubjectivity, unconscious communication, the analytic field, and the relationship between analyst and patient.

Based on the entries of the IPA’s Inter-Regional Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (IRED), the course places major international psychoanalytic traditions into dialogue while tracing the historical, philosophical, developmental, and clinical evolution of intersubjective thinking across psychoanalytic cultures.

Dr. Papiasvili will explore how intersubjective thought emerged through multiple converging streams, including:
• phenomenology and continental philosophy
• infant research and developmental psychology
• attachment theory and affect regulation
• interpersonal and relational psychoanalysis
• self psychology and object relations theory
• post-Kleinian and post-Bionian developments
• field theories and unconscious communication
• contemporary neuroanalytic and developmental neuroscience perspectives

One concept. Three psychoanalytic cultures.

Participants will examine how North American psychoanalysis developed intersubjective perspectives through relational, interpersonal, self psychological, and field-theoretical approaches; how French psychoanalysis approached the “unconscious subject,” subjectivation, and the role of language and the “real other”; and how Latin American psychoanalytic traditions developed sophisticated theories of analytic field, relational process, and unconscious communication within distinct social and cultural contexts.

The course will also address the profound clinical implications of intersubjective thinking for contemporary psychoanalytic work, including:
• transference-countertransference dynamics
• enactment and unconscious communication
• analytic field processes
• nonverbal communication and affective exchange
• rupture, repair, and co-constructed meaning
• the analyst’s participation within the analytic process itself

From early development to analytic dialogue.

The course additionally integrates findings from affective developmental neuroscience, attachment research, and neuroanalytic studies illuminating the neurobiological foundations of intersubjective connectivity, affect regulation, and nonverbal communication in both development and psychoanalytic treatment.

This course offers a rare opportunity to study intersubjectivity not simply as a single theory, but as a major international psychoanalytic conversation unfolding across cultures, traditions, and clinical schools worldwide.

Whether you are a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, educator, or clinician interested in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, this course provides a unique cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exploration of one of the central paradigm shifts in modern psychoanalysis.