Mourning, spirituality and psychic change : a new object relations view of psychoanalysis / Susan Kavaler-Adler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kavaler-Adler, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology)--Case studies.

Loss (Psychology).

Grief therapy--Case studies.

Grief therapy.

Bereavement--Psychological aspects--Case studies.

Bereavement.

Bereavement--Psychological aspects.

Psychoanalysis.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction

A new metapsychology for clinical phenomenology and psychic health

A phenomenological theory of developmental mourning

Mourning as explicit and implicit in psychoanalytic theory : John Bowlby, Michael Balint, and D.W. Winnicott

The case of June, part 1 : finding a new identity through the mourning of traumatic loss and guilt, primal rage, and poignant regret

The case of June, part 2 : a mournful and spiritual journey : spiritual and sexual evolution

June's evolution in later years of treatment : transformation through mourning in developmental, transference, and life change terms

The case of Philip, part 1 : seven generations of grief

The case of Phillip, part 2 : the spiritual evolution

The case of Laura, part 1 : mourning as the poetry of female eroticism : homoerotic evolutions of a homosexual woman within developmental mourning

The case of Laura, part 2 : strands and cycles of mourning and unrequited love : modes of mourning

Mourning and creativity : a journey through a male artist's development

The divine, the deviant and the diabolical : a journey through a female artist's paintings during her participation in a creative process group.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-286) and index.

ISBN:

1583912932

1583912940

OCLC:

51476954