Classes

Dreaming Donald Meltzer (Class 1)

Donald Meltzer was one of the most creative contributors to the object relations tradition, and there is much to be gained from reading and rereading his books.  This class will focus on selections from two of his works: Dream-life, and The Claustrum.  In Dream-life Meltzer entirely revises Freud's understanding of dreams, describing dreams as emerging out of the most creative and advanced parts of the mind.  In The Claustrum, he describes how this creative capacity of mental life can be severely undermined and damaged in retreats from ment

Loss and Grief in Object Relations Therapy (Class 4)

Grief is central to human experience.  We are all confronted with losses, disappointments, separations, disruptions, large and small, every day, and we are able to move forward in our lives only if we are able to grieve.  Our patients come to us with a tremendous burden of undigested sadness, and much of psychotherapy is our attempt to help them develop some capacity to mourn.  Since its beginnings in Freud and Klein, object relations has had as one of its central concerns grief work, and how it is that a capacity to grieve can be developed so that emotional growth can move f

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