1st Edition
The Anatomy of Regret From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization through Vivid Clinical Cases
By Susan Kavaler-Adler
Copyright 2013
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Anatomy of Regret has a highly clinical focus, with cases that illustrate how critical psychic change can emerge from the mourning of the grief of "psychic regret". This book highlights the developmental achievement of owning the guilt of aggression, and of tolerating insight into the losses one had produced. The author uses the term "psychic regret" to capture the essence of the process of... Read more
Foreword -- Introduction -- Developmental transformation of aggression within mourning -- Conscious regret in clinical treatment engendering a critical turn towards love and creativity, healing a schizoid woman and her family: the case of Sharon -- From crime to regret: an affect-level view of psychic transformation and the capacity to love -- Tolerable and intolerable regret: clinical transformation of the intolerable into the tolerable -- Facing the ghost of failures in mothering. Regret evolving into love and play: the case of Anastasia, Part I -- The interaction of negative transference and the mourning of regrets in psychic transformation: the case of Anastasia, Part II -- The grief of regret motivating commitment to marriage in a woman: Sarah's extramarital affair -- The grief of regret allowing commitment in marriage in the man: the case of Oscar -- Conclusion
Biography
Kavaler-Adler, Susan
