Selected Papers by Susan Kavaler-Adler Volume 1: Developmental Mourning, Erotic Transference, and Object Relations: - Softcover

Susan Kavaler-Adler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1956864296 ISBN 13: 9781956864298

Publisher: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2023

Synopsis

“In these thoughtfully curated volumes we have access to the work of one of the most influential and thoughtprovoking psychoanalytic writers today. In the creative hands of Dr. Kavaler-Adler, British and American Object Relations theories are fashioned into a vital, dynamic theory of Developmental Mourning, a developmental process that is central not only to healing trauma, but to the growth of separationindividuation processes, “selfevolution,” creativity, eroticism, and the core elements of what it is to be human and alive.>br/> Dr. KavalerAdler’s writing is so thoroughly infused with her enthusiasm and passion that we encounter the theory with visceral clarity and truly feel the pain and joy of her clinical work. Dr. Kavaler-Adler illustrates the power of the use of countertransference with poignant and healing effect, never more vividly than in her chapters on Group Therapy. In these chapters we witness the working through of primitive affects and developmental progressions embedded in the powerful dynamics of the group with Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s illuminating understanding through the lens of Developmental Mourning. We are indebted to International Psychoanalytic Books for bringing the works of one of the master clinicians of our time together in these collected volumes.”
—ROBERT GROSSMARK, PHD, ABPP, author of The Unobtrusive Relational Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning and The One and the Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy

Edition details

• Publisher: International Psychoanalytic Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1956864296
• ISBN 13: 9781956864298
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 566