O.R.T. Institute
The Object Relations Technique
A Perceptual Approach to Personality

The Object Relations Technique is one of the most potent and innovative tools ever created for the clinical study and exploration of personality.

Over a decade of research and development by the not-for-profit O.R.T. Institute has now brought this unique method forward in its official new edition — providing a complete system for a modern psychoanalytic modeling of individual personality, based on actual subject perception.

The O.R.T. enables one to:

  • Clearly model the object relations (O-R) for complete diagnostic assessments.
  • Forge confident and powerfully relieving analyses with each patient, and do so with unusual efficiency.
  • Conduct research that is fully both controlled and psychoanalytic.
Psychologists and psychotherapists in 23 countries are today utilizing the O.R.T.

Reading: Sample pages from the new O.R.T. Manual, now online.
Reading: Dr. Paul M. Lerner on the O.R.T.'s Utility for Assessment.
Reading: Dr. James S. Grotstein on the O.R.T.'s Value in Treatment.


Current Publications:
The Object Relations Technique: Assessing the Individual, by Martin A. Shaw, Ph.D., is now available. Twelve years in preparation, this in-depth manual presents the new system for 'scoring' and analysis (including of defense mechanisms) in the O.R.T.
O.R.T. Plates: New Standard and Fully Authorized Edition is an exacting reproduction of the original O.R.T. visual stimulus materials. Published exclusively by the Institute, and approved by Herbert Phillipson.



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