Community Events (non-Alliance)

“Protecting our Humanity in the midst of Tribal Warfare: Thoughts for our Time”

Presented by Maxine Anderson MD

In this class we will explore the various interactions between these two perspectives on human experience.  We will read selections from Meltzer and Bion, working to listen to what they might have to say about Christian experience, and we will read the Gospel of Mark and selections from Romans, trying to listen emotionally and psychologically. The intention is not to integrate the two perspectives but to explore how each might shed some light on meanings in the other. 

Dates:  March 3, 10, 17, 24

Fee: $180

Scholarships available to COR members

This online course will explore the evolution of internal objects in analytic literature. The tradition of British Object Relations is solidly grounded in their psychic existence as organizers of internal life. This course will focus on how different authors have conceptualized, enriched, transformed, and used the notion of the internal object, with attention dedicated to our own clinical work. We will read authors such as Klein, Bollas, Winnicott, Eaton, and Grotstein. 

Dates: Mondays:  January 13, 20, 27, Feb. 3, 10, 27, 24, Mar 2

Fee: $360

The Oregon Health and Science Universtiy's 2019 Woodcock Lecture speaker will be Adam Phillips, one of Britain’s leading psychoanalysts and literary critics. He has written more than 20 books about psychoanalysis, literature and culture on subjects ranging from Freud and DW Winnicott to Proust and Houdini. He is the general editor of the Penguin Modern Classic Freud series and a visiting professor at the University of York.

This symposium is an introduction to Joseph Newirth’s work, and will be based on his most recently published book. The class will trace the evolution of concepts of symbolization, alpha function, reverie, the container-contained, and the use of transitional experiences to integrate these concepts with the relational paradigm emphasizing the transformation of concrete experiences and enactments within the transference-countertransference relationship into metaphorical symbolic experiences.

Dr. Keats will draw on his experience working at Chestnut Lodge Hospital from 1978 until its closure in 2001. He will
describe the efforts to provide the best possible treatment for psychiatric patients and will discuss how that treatment
changed over the years.

Fees: Free to COR Members, Non-Members: $20

CEUs: $10

First time members: Special membership price of $35.

No pre-registration

The SPSI Art Salon Committee presents a screening of the film, Lars and the Real Girl. This will be followed by a panel discussion with Rebecca Meredith, MA, and Liz Ulrich, LICSW, who will explore the concepts of grief and sadness, and how we replace our lost objects, when mourning is incomplete. Sue Radant, PhD, will moderate the discussion. 

This online course will explore the evolution of the superego as an internal mental structure, its usefulness, its ever-presence in the mind of the patient, the mind of the therapist, and, therefore, our constant encounters with it in therapy. We will read authors such as Bion, Rosenfeld, Bronstein, O’Shaughnessy, and Brenman. As one of the central notions of analytic work, the superego has been and continues to be taught in COR’s foundational classes.

This course will span the academic year – 18 classes – and will explore the context and development of the basic but complex object relations concepts arising from Freud and expanded upon by Klein and later theorists and clinicians. We will also consider necessary conditions for growing a mind, and the clinical implications when that process is affected by neglect or trauma. 

This on-line event is in six sessions: Saturdays 10/5,  11/2, 1/11, 2/1, 3/7, 5/2