In these thoughtfully curated volumes we have access to the work of one of the most influential and thought-provoking psychoanalytic writers today.
BLUM, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute; affiliated with NYU Medical School and the Psy.
Kavaler-Adler\'s insightful Papers is a fascinating, rewarding psychoanalytic journey.-HAROLD P.
Reading and reflecting upon Dr.
She describes the appreciation of the new when one can separate from fixation to traumatic loss.
Demonstrating the beneficial clinical outcome of Mourning for loss in self and Object relationships, she also emphasizes the reparative and growth promoting aspects of Mourning the detrimental consequences of traumatic experience.
An independent, philosophical psychoanalyst, Kavaler-adler bridges past and present in theory and practice.
Drawing upon the theories of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Balint and many others, she illustrates and illuminates her concept 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 Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning and The One and the Many: Relational Approaches to Group Psychotherapy
Susan Kavaler-Adler\'s Volume I of the Selected Papers highlights her original contributions to psychoanalytic theory and technique.
Kavaler-Adler\'s illuminating understanding through the lens of Developmental Mourning.
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 illustrates the power of the use of counterTransference with poignant and healing effect, never more vividly than in her chapters on Group Therapy.
Dr.
Kavaler-Adler\'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, 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 separation-individuation processes, selfevolution, creativity, eroticism, and reparation: the core elements of what it is to be human and alive.
In the creative hands of Dr.
In these thoughtfully curated volumes we have access to the work of one of the most influential and thought-provoking psychoanalytic writers today
