Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis

by Susan Kavaler-Adler

Book Overview

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 stage of development.
This new book brings such distinctions into the consulting room, exploring how a successful analyst can help patients to utilise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583912940
• ISBN13: 9781583912942
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"