The Object Relations View
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
D. W. Winnicott’s Understanding of Envy – Good Enough Mother and Child’s Developmental Issues
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Topic of envy is continued as it relates to D.W. Winnicott’s understanding of mother-infant relationship and the “good enough” mother.
Envy and Negative Therapeutic Reaction: Biting the Hand That Feeds You
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kavaler-Adler continues the topic of envy and its relationship with the saying “biting the hand that feeds you,” especially in clinical therap...
Melanie Klein and Instinctual Envy of the Internal Self
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Envy is a powerful and difficult clinical topic. Yet Envy pervades our lives, and rivals with Jealousy for its killer instinct and terror filled hunge...
What is Creative Process
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, &nbs...
Psychic Bulimia and Anorexia
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kavaler-Adler addresses Cravings versus Yearnings in Bulimia and Anorexia, as well as the multilevel hunger in both. Psychic Visualiza...
Time Management From the Inside Out: Playing with Time and the Internal Objects We Project onto Time
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mourning, Grief, Loss and Deprivation at the Time Of Covid
Envy v. Admiration
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discusses the subject of envy, contrasting it with admiration. And, sometimes, people confuse envy with jealousy. Unconscious ...
Merger v. Marriage: What is the Couple?
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discusses how various couples differ developmentally. Sometimes, two people create the enmeshed/ psychically merged relationsh...
Internal World Persecutors v. External Threat of COVID-1
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discusses how we can project our internal world's accusers, judges, and prosecutors onto corona virus itself, producing the te...
Existential Guilt v. Neurotic Guilt:
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For more information about this topic and about Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s writing/ creative process groups, visit www.kavaleradler.com. In this group proc...
Closet Narcissists
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For more information about this topic and about Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s writing/ creative process groups, visit www.kavaleradler.com. In this group proc...
Love Addiction
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For more information about this topic and about Dr. Kavaler-Adler’s writing/ creative process groups, visit www.kavaleradler.com. In this group proc...
Internal Editor and Internal Saboteur
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Utilizing Fairbairn’s (1952) concepts of the “internal saboteur” and the “anti-libidinal ego,” Dr. Kavaler-Adler discusses the “internal e...
Writing Blocks
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When we take a look through an object relations lens at pathological dynamics related to the creative process, we see that those with neurotic conditi...
Psychic Dialectic
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Psychic Dialectic: The Object Relations View is the 16th episode of the educational series related on object relations view of one's personal developm...
Female Creativity and the Internal Father
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler continues the series "The Object Relations View" with this small educational podcast episode on importance of the "internal fa...
Narcissism
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discuses the phenomenon of narcissism from the object relations view. Dr. Kavaler-Adler is a psychoanalyst and an object relat...
Eating Disorders
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kavaler-Adler offers the psychoanalytic/ object relations clinical theory approach to eating disorders.
Anxiety
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kavaler-Adler discusses the object relations view on anxiety as a repressed or dissociated state of fear of anger, rage, and loss.
Depression
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kavaler-Adler, founder of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (NYC) discusses the view on depression from the pers...
Klein-Winnicott Dialectic
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discusses so-called Klein-Winnicott dialectic, which enriched the object relations clinical theory and technique, as Melanie K...
Psychic Regret
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler explains the concept of psychic regret as it understood by the object relations practitioners.
Demon-Lover Complex
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kavaler-Adler, Exec Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis explains the concept of the Demon-lover, and h...
Bad Objects and Loyalty to Bad Objects
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 beh...
Mourning, Developmental vs. Pathological
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Through all our lives, we experience losses, which we mourn. In a healthy case of developmental mourning, we are able to grow, personally and psychica...
Fear of Success
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kavaler-Adler opens up a difficult topic of fear of success (which is related to self-sabotage), and describes it through clinical examples.
Self Sabotage
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Self-sabotage can present itself in different shapes and forms, even it can present itself as "fear of success". Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler provides very...
Time as an Object
03 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have problems meeting the dead lines? Making time lines? Both? Are you always ready for your presentation or an exam weeks and weeks ahead? Are...
Projective Identification
02 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kavaler-Adler provides explanation and clinical examples of the phenomenon of projective identification, as well as offers explanation of differen...
Introduction
01 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first part of the educational series on the Object Relations theory, theorists, and clinical technique offered by Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler,...