Susan Kavaler-Adler

Susan Kavaler-Adler (Ph.D., ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt.) is an American clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, object relations theorist, and author. Her contributions to the field of psychoanalysis include developmental mourning, erotic transference, the demon-lover complex, and love and creativity. In 1991, she co-founded, with Dr. Robert Weinstein, the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ORI) in New York City, which is chartered (since 1993) by the Board of Regents of the NYS Education Department to provide post-graduate training in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Publications

Kavaler-Adler is the author of six influential psychoanalytic books, one trade book, and over 80 published articles and book chapters on clinical psychoanalysis, creativity, psychic regression, mourning, female development, and erotic transference.

Books

Selected Papers

Reception

Book Reviews

The Compulsion to Create (1993)

The Creative Mystique (1996)

Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change (2003)

The Anatomy of Regret (2013)

The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic (2014)

Interviews

References

  1. ↑ Kavaler-Adler, Susan (1993). The compulsion to create: a psychoanalytic study of women artists. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-90711-8.
  2. ↑ Kavaler-Adler, Susan (1996). The creative mystique: from red shoes frenzy to love and creativity. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-91412-3.
  3. ↑ Kavaler Adler, Susan. "Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis". Routledge & CRC Press. ISBN 978-1583912942. Archived from the original on September 24, 2026. Retrieved May 7, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  4. ↑ Kavaler-Adler, Susan. THE ANATOMY OF REGRET: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolisation Through Vivid Clinical Cases. London: Karnac Books Ltd., 2013. ISBN 978-1-78049-117-2.
  5. ↑ Kavaler-Adler, Susan (2014). The Klein-Winnicott dialectic: transformative new metapsychology and interactive clinical theory. London: Karnac. ISBN 978-1-78049-124-0.
  6. ↑ Kavaler Adler, Susan (October 2022). "Selected Papers of Susan Kavaler-Adler: Volume I: Developmental Mourning, Erotic Transference, And Object Relations Psychoanalysis". IPBooks. ISBN 978-1956864298. Archived from the original on September 25, 2026. Retrieved May 7, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  7. ↑ Kavaler-Adler, Susan (April 21, 2020). "Saturday Nights at Lafayette Grill: True Tales & Gossips of NY City Argentine Tango Scene". ORI Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-942431-07-7. Archived from the original on July 13, 2024. Retrieved May 7, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  8. ↑ Kavaler-Adler, Susan (2018-10-02). "The beginning of heartache in character disorders: On the way to relatedness and intimacy through primal affects and symbolization". International Forum of Psychoanalysis. 27 (4): 207–218. doi:10.1080/0803706X.2016.1270468. ISSN 0803-706X.
  9. ↑ Kavaler-Adler, Susan (2010-03-01). "Seduction, date rape, and aborted surrender". International Forum of Psychoanalysis. 19 (1). Routledge: 15–26. doi:10.1080/08037060903325375. ISSN 0803-706X.
  10. ↑ Kavaler-Adler, Susan (2009-06-01). "Object Relations Perspectives on "Phantom of the Opera" and Its Demon Lover Theme: The Modern Film". The American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 69 (2): 150–166. doi:10.1057/ajp.2009.5. ISSN 1573-6741. PMID 19536180.
  11. ↑ Kavaler-Adler, Susan (October 2007). "Pivotal Moments of Surrender to Mourning The Internal Parental Object". The Psychoanalytic Review. 94 (5). Guilford Publications Inc.: 763–789. doi:10.1521/prev.2007.94.5.763. ISSN 0033-2836. PMID 17983325.
  12. ↑ "PEP | Browse | Read - The Compulsion to Create: A Psychoanalytic Study of Women Artists, by Susan Kavaler-Adler, Routledge, 1993, 338 ps". pep-web.org. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
  13. ↑ "PEP | Browse | Read - The Compulsion to Create: A Psychoanalytic Study of Women Artists: By Susan Kavaler-Adler. New York & London: Routledge. 1993. Pp. 356 + xii". pep-web.org. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
  14. ↑ Cox, Murray (1995). "The Compulsion to Create - The Compulsion to Create: A Psychoanalytic Study of Women Artists is by Susan Kavaler-Adler. It is published by Routledge (1993, 356 pp.)". The British Journal of Psychiatry. 167 (6): 840–840. doi:10.1192/S0007125000066447. ISSN 0007-1250.
  15. ↑ "PEP | Read - The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity". pep-web.org. 1998. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
  16. ↑ "PEP | Read - The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity. Kavaler-Adler, Susan. New York/London: Routledge, 1996". pep-web.org. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
  17. ↑ "Book Reviews". British Journal of Psychotherapy. 15 (3): 382–396. 1999. doi:10.1111/j.1752-0118.1999.tb00468.x. ISSN 0265-9883.
  18. ↑ "PEP | Browse | Read - Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis, by Susan Kavaler-Adler, Brunner-Routledge, 2003, 297 pp". pep-web.org. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
  19. ↑ "PEP | Browse | Read - The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization Through Vivid Case Studies, by Susan Kavaler-Adler, Karnac Books, London, 2013, 248pp". pep-web.org. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
  20. ↑ "PEP | Search". pep-web.org. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
  21. ↑ "PEP | Read - The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization through Vivid Case Studies By S. Kavaler-Adler London: Karnac, 2013, 272 pp". pep-web.org. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
  22. ↑ "PEP | Browse | Read - The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory, by Susan Kavaler-Adler, Karnac, London, 2014, 290pp". pep-web.org. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
  23. ↑ Vorus, Neal (2017-04). "Review of The Klein-Winnicott dialectic: Transformative new metapsychology and interactive clinical theory". Psychoanalytic Psychology. 34 (2): 239–241. doi:10.1037/pap0000091. ISSN 1939-1331. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  24. ↑ "Susan Kavaler-Adler, "The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers" (ORI Academic, 2013)". New Books Network. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
  25. ↑ "Susan Kavaler-Adler, "Anatomy of Regret" (Karnac, 2013)". New Books Network. Retrieved 2026-10-27.