The Klein-Winnicot dialectic : transformative new metapsychology and interactive clinical theory

321 Pages·2012·1.03 MB·English

by  Kavaler-Adler, Susan

CHAPTERTITLE I
THE KLEIN–WINNICOTT
DIALECTIC

THE KLEIN–WINNICOTT
DIALECTIC
Transformative New
Metapsychology and
Interactive Clinical Theory
Susan Kavaler-Adler
First published in 2014 by
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Copyright © 2014 to Susan Kavaler-Adler
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix
FOREWORD xi
INTRODUCTION: A developmental theory of xiii
psychological health based on the Klein–Winnicott
dialectic and related object relations thinking
CHAPTER ONE
Melanie Klein, like Moses on the way to the 1
Promised Land: a case of pathological mourning
CHAPTER TWO
Melanie Klein’s creative writing revealing themes in 27
her life and theorising
CHAPTER THREE
The phenomenological theory stands on its own: 43
death instinct as demon lover
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CHAPTER FOUR
Explicating and utilising the phenomenological theory 71
CHAPTER FIVE
Developmental evolution within the theory of 97
Melanie Klein
CHAPTER SIX
Developmental evolution within the works of
Donald W. Winnicott: psychic and transitional space 115
CHAPTER SEVEN
Dynamics of transitional space: pathological foreclosure 149
vs. expansion in clinical treatment
CHAPTER EIGHT
Winnicott’s contribution to the understanding of 181
mirroring as a developmental process: the
Klein–Winnicott dialectic within
CHAPTER NINE
Narcissistic mirroring as perversion of developmental 209
mourning
CHAPTER TEN
Loneliness in dialectic with solitude 223
Conclusion 261
REFERENCES 265
INDEX 275
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I want to acknowledge the tremendous help offered to me by Dr Inna
Rozentsvit, in all my current professional activities, and especially for
her assistance in finalising and publishing this book. Since this book,
and another current one, both being published by Karnac, are related
to all my work as an object relations theorist who teaches through my
role as the founder and executive director of the Object Relations
Institute (ORI) for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (since 1991), I
want to also thank Dr Rozentsvit for her superhuman efforts in help-
ing the Object Relations Institute grow and thrive. Dr Rozentsvit
(Inna) is the jewel of administration, marketing, and comradeship
that has reinvigorated all the faculty, graduates, candidates, and our
communal professional network at ORI. Dr Rozentsvit entered my
world as a student in my Melanie Klein course at the Institute, after
having practised as a neurologist for most of her professional life.
Her quick attunement and insight into the world of psychoanalysis,
and the clinical contributions of the object relations theorists, includ-
ing those of my own and of my now deceased colleagues, Dr Jeffrey
Seinfeld and Dr Joyce McDougall, has allowed Inna to be a won-
derful companion along the road of my continuing professional
journey.
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I also want to thank Catherine Sanguinetti for her earlier assistance
in developing this book. I wish her the best of luck in bringing up her
two beautiful little daughters. I want to acknowledge, as well, all the
help she gave to the Object Relations Institute during her period of
administration.
I would like to thank all my professional colleagues, who dis -
cussed with me the themes related to my theoretical and clinical ideas
as I was creating this book. I particularly want to recognise my dear
departed friends: Dr Jeffrey Seinfeld, Dr Joyce McDougall, Dr Conalee
Schneidman, Dr Fayek Nakhla, and Dr Jerry Raphael. I also want to
thank my current friends and colleagues who respond to my thoughts
and, thus, inspire me: Audrey Ashendorf, Charles Bonerbo, Dr Albert
Brok, Janet Burak, Nasir Ilahi, Raphael A. Javier, Dr Jeffrey Lewis,
Harriet Pappenheim, Madeline Price, Dr Jeffrey Rubin, Lisa Shuman,
Dr Jack Schwartz, Anne Rose Simon, Harriet Wald, Marc Wayne, Dr
Lawrence Wetzler, and Dr Margaret Yard.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt is a practising
clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and a scholar of the object rela-
tions clinical theory for over thirty-five years. She offers psycho-
therapy and psychoanalysis for individuals and couples, while in
therapeutic groups she utilises unique techniques of psychic visuali-
sations to engage all participants in discovering their internal world’s
relationships. Her supervision groups for mental health practitioners
are very popular, and include creative approaches of inter active
role-play, case studies, analytic-session-as-a-hologram, as well as the
analyst-as-instrument techniques.
Dr Kavaler-Adler is the co-founder, executive director, senior teach-
ing faculty, training analyst, and supervisor of the Object Rela tions
Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ORI) in New York
City.ORI is a non-profit New York State chartered educational institute,
which has started its third decade of making mental health profes-
sionals and educating them about British and American object relations
clinical theory and technique.
Dr Kavaler-Adler is the author of four books (two of which had
been re-published in 2013 by ORI Academic Press) and over sixty peer-
reviewed articles and edited book chapters, many of which are related
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