The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kavaler-Adler, Susan

Mental Health

Routledge

The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization through Vivid Clinical Cases

The Compulsion to Create: A Psychoanalytic Study of Women Artists

In "The Compulsion to Create", Kavaler-Alder offers a theoretical understanding of the psychological forces at work in the female artist. Drawing on the work of the object relations school - especially Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Harry Guntrip, Margaret Mahler and D.W. Winnicott - she argues that the compulsion to create is an addiction to an internal parent object and constitutes a pathological state of mourning. The importance of the father's role, which may be positive, rejecting or seductive, in the female artists creative process is thoroughly considered. Kavaler-Adler develops her theoretical position by focusing on the lives and works of women writers including Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin and Edith Sitwell. In conclusion, she examines how psychotherapy can be used to help artists and writers modify self-destructive forces within them, while simultaneously enriching their creative work; by presenting the case of a living female artist she makes clear how the diagnostic can be applied to actual clinical practice. "The Compulsion to Create" focuses on the defensive aspects of creativity.

Self-Help

Creativity

In "The Compulsion to Create", Kavaler-Alder offers a theoretical understanding of the psychological forces at work in the female artist. Drawing on the work of the object relations school - especially Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Harry Guntrip, Margaret Mahler and D.W. Winnicott - she argues that the compulsion to create is an addiction to an internal parent object and constitutes a pathological state of mourning. The importance of the father's role, which may be positive, rejecting or seductive, in the female artists creative process is thoroughly considered. Kavaler-Adler develops her theoretical position by focusing on the lives and works of women writers including Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin and Edith Sitwell. In conclusion, she examines how psychotherapy can be used to help artists and writers modify self-destructive forces within them, while simultaneously enriching their creative work; by presenting the case of a living female artist she makes clear how the diagnostic can be applied to actual clinical practice. "The Compulsion to Create" focuses on the defensive aspects of creativity.

Psychology & Counseling

Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others and through clinical case studies, Susan Kavaler-Adler offers penetrating insights into the nature of the creative process. Kavaler-Adler contrasts unsuccessful psychological treatments with object-relations therapy that is able to resolve the pathological narcissism of creative addiction and allow the emergence of healthy modes of self-expression.

The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity

Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others and through clinical case studies, Susan Kavaler-Adler offers penetrating insights into the nature of the creative process. Kavaler-Adler contrasts unsuccessful psychological treatments with object-relations therapy that is able to resolve the pathological narcissism of creative addiction and allow the emergence of healthy modes of self-expression.

The Creative Mystique

The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers is a fascinating and informative psychological survey of women and the literature they create, especially as reflected by the lives and work of such luminaries as Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Anais Nin, Sylvia Plath, and Edith Sitwell. The reader is treated to such issues as compulsion versus reparation, developmental mourning and creative-process reparation, creative women and the "internal father," and the "demon-lover" theme as literary myth and psychodynamic complex. A highly recommended addition to women's studies, literary studies, and psychological studies supplemental reading lists, "The Compulsion to Create" is original, revealing, insightful, challenging, at times iconoclastic, and always entertaining.

The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Ori Academic Press

Through the life stories of women such as Camille Claudel, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Sexton, Suzanne Farrell and others, and through clinical case studies, Susan Kavaler-Adler offers penetrating insights into the nature of the creative process. Kavaler-Adler contrasts unsuccessful psychological treatments with object-relations therapy that is able to resolve the pathological narcissism of creative addiction and allow the emergence of healthy modes of self-expression. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the creative process and its psychological and psychoanalytic underpinnings.

The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoe Frenzy to Love and Creativity

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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

Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change

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 mourning for past troubles to move them forward to a lasting change for the better, emotionally, psychically and erotically. The author also tackles the controversial issue of spirituality in psychoanalysis, and explores how psychoanalysis can help patients come to terms with difficult issues in a time of great psychic and spiritual disturbance. These themes are brought to life via two richly detailed case studies.

Death & Grief

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The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory

The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization through Vivid Clinical Cases

The Compulsion to Create: A Psychoanalytic Study of Women Artists

The Compulsion to Create: A Psychoanalytic Study of Women Artists

The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity

The Creative Mystique

The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers

The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoe Frenzy to Love and Creativity

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

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