Susan Kavaler Adler: 3 books
Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change
A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
In her earlier books, Susan Kavaler-Adler identified healthy mourning for traumas and life changes as an essential aspect of successful analysis, and drew the distinction between a healthy acceptance of mourning as part of development and pathological mourning, which 'fixes' a patient at an unhealthy...
The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic
Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory brings together the theories of Melanie Klein and Donald W. Winnicott, two giants and geniuses of the British school of object relations clinical and developmental theory and psychoanalytic technique....
The Anatomy of Regret
From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization through Vivid Clinical Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Anatomy of Regret has a highly clinical focus, with cases that illustrate how critical psychic change can emerge from the mourning of the grief of "psychic regret". This book highlights the developmental achievement of owning the guilt of aggression, and of tolerating insight into the losses...