This is the first part of the educational series on the Object Relations theory, theorists, and clinical technique offered by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler, founder and executive director of the Object Relations Institute in NYC.  Dr. Kavaler-Adler is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and psychotherapist with 35 years of experience, and is a prolific writer.  She is known to be an American Object Relations theorist, continuing the tradition of the British Object Relations theorists.