Books by Susan Kavaler-Adler

With a highly clinical focus, this book includes cases that illustrate how critical psychic change can emerge from the mourning of the grief of "psychic regret." It highlights the developmental achievement of owning the guilt of aggression, and of tolerating insight into the losses one had produced.

Begins with integration of Kleinian and Winnicottian theory from their contrasting, but also complementary, dialectical perspectives with some studies of Melanie Klein's psychobiography. This volume shows that Klein's theories of mourning interact with Winnicott's theories on object survival; potential and transitional space; and the true self.

This book explores how a successful analyst can help patients to utilise mourning for past troubles to move them forward to a lasting change for the better, emotionally, psychically and erotically.