Dr. Kavaler-Adler continues the topic of envy and its relationship with the saying “biting the hand that feeds you,” especially in clinical therapeutic situation.

Melanie Klein and Instinctual Envy of the Internal Self

Dec 27th, 2021 10m 45s

Envy is a powerful and difficult clinical topic. Yet Envy pervades our lives, and rivals with Jealousy for its killer instinct and terror filled hunger. After Freud’s more narrow understanding of envy in terms of penis envy, Melanie Klein was t

What is Creative Process

Dec 26th, 2021 10m 3s

What is a Writer? How to Know whether you're a Writer from the inside out? What is the creative process, versus performing for publication, versus the Compulsion to Create, and versus writing blocks or creative blocks? What role do dreams h

Psychic Bulimia and Anorexia

Dec 25th, 2021 16m 51s

Dr. Kavaler-Adler addresses Cravings versus Yearnings in Bulimia and Anorexia, as well as the multilevel hunger in both. Psychic Visualization technique (used consistently in Dr. Kavaler-Adler's monthly groups) helps to hone in on these topic

Time Management From the Inside Out: Playing with Time and the Internal Objects We Project onto Time

Dec 24th, 2021 10m 1s

Time Management From the Inside Out: Playing with Time and the Internal Objects We Project onto Time

Mourning, Grief, Loss and Deprivation at the Time Of Covid

Jan 25th, 2021 12m 25s

Mourning, Grief, Loss and Deprivation at the Time Of Covid

Envy v. Admiration

Jan 24th, 2021 9m 44s

Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discusses the subject of envy, contrasting it with admiration. And, sometimes, people confuse envy with jealousy. Unconscious envy can be painful, hateful, and destructive.

Merger v. Marriage: What is the Couple?

Jan 23rd, 2021 12m 26s

Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discusses how various couples differ developmentally. Sometimes, two people create the enmeshed/ psychically merged relationship, and some others who are two separate and differentiated people -- create a couple, where

Internal World Persecutors v. External Threat of COVID-1

Jan 22nd, 2021 9m 26s

Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discusses how we can project our internal world's accusers, judges, and prosecutors onto corona virus itself, producing the terrors of annihilation.

Existential Guilt v. Neurotic Guilt:

Jan 21st, 2021 17m 20s

For more information about this topic and about Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s writing/ creative process groups, visit www.kavaleradler.com. In this group process, the internal editor comes alive through transference, associations, and affectively laden m

Closet Narcissists

Jan 20th, 2021 17m 50s

Love Addiction

Jan 19th, 2021 14m 22s

Internal Editor and Internal Saboteur

Jan 18th, 2021 12m 40s

Utilizing Fairbairn’s (1952) concepts of the “internal saboteur” and the “anti-libidinal ego,” Dr. Kavaler-Adler discusses the “internal editor,” which haunts the would-be writer (or any other creative person) - by censoring what he/she might w

Writing Blocks

Jan 17th, 2021 10m 27s

When we take a look through an object relations lens at pathological dynamics related to the creative process, we see that those with neurotic conditions can often suffer from creative blocks, or in the case of writers, from writing blocks. Th

Psychic Dialectic

Jan 16th, 2021 15m 26s

Psychic Dialectic: The Object Relations View is the 16th episode of the educational series related on object relations view of one's personal development. It is presented by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler, who is a practicing psychoanalyst and the fou

Female Creativity and the Internal Father

Jan 15th, 2021 17m 44s

Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler continues the series "The Object Relations View" with this small educational podcast episode on importance of the "internal father" for the development of female creativity. For further understanding of the topic, read "

Narcissism

Jan 14th, 2021 15m 11s

Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discuses the phenomenon of narcissism from the object relations view. Dr. Kavaler-Adler is a psychoanalyst and an object relations theorist for over 35 years. She is the founder and the executive director of the Object

Eating Disorders

Jan 13th, 2021 13m 54s

Dr. Kavaler-Adler offers the psychoanalytic/ object relations clinical theory approach to eating disorders.

Anxiety

Jan 12th, 2021 14m 45s

Dr. Kavaler-Adler discusses the object relations view on anxiety as a repressed or dissociated state of fear of anger, rage, and loss.

Depression

Jan 11th, 2021 13m 33s

Dr. Kavaler-Adler, founder of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (NYC) discusses the view on depression from the perspective of the object relations clinical theory. She describes depression as not something we

Klein-Winnicott Dialectic

Jan 10th, 2021 13m 3s

Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discusses so-called Klein-Winnicott dialectic, which enriched the object relations clinical theory and technique, as Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott complemented each other, although they were perceived to be rather p

Psychic Regret

Jan 9th, 2021 9m 17s

Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler explains the concept of psychic regret as it understood by the object relations practitioners.

Demon-Lover Complex

Jan 8th, 2021 14m 16s

Dr. Kavaler-Adler, Exec Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis explains the concept of the Demon-lover, and how it is related to maturation of one's psyche, to separation-individuation process, to creati

Bad Objects and Loyalty to Bad Objects

Jan 7th, 2021 14m 24s

Dr. Kavaler-Adler talks about bad objects (in our psyche) and how loyalty to those bad objects explains our feelings about the world and our behavior .