Susan Kavaler-Adler

Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who has been in private practice in Manhattan for 45 years. She is a Fellow of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis, and the Founder and Executive Director of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she is a Training Analyst, Senior Supervisor and active faculty member. ORI is a psychoanalytic training institute chartered by the NYS Board of Regents.

Dr. Kavaler-Adler holds an honorary doctorate in literature. She is a prolific author, with six published books and over 70 articles and book chapters in object relations psychoanalytic theory:

• Developmental Mourning, Erotic Transference, and Object Relations Psychoanalysis (IPBooks, 2023)
• The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory (Karnac, 2014)
• The Anatomy of Regret: From Death Instinct to Reparation and Symbolization in Vivid Case Studies (Karnac, 2013)
• Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2003; Gradiva® Award, NAAP, 2004)
• The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love and Creativity (Routledge, 1996; ORI Academic Press, 2014; Gradiva® Award nomination)
• The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers (Routledge, 1993; ORI Academic Press, 2013)

Dr. Kavaler-Adler has received 16 awards for psychoanalytic writing and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Controversial Conversations (IJCC). She leads ongoing groups in her practice, including a monthly writing group, a monthly online experiential supervision group, and a monthly “Mourning, Therapy, and Support Group” with guided visualization. More at kavaleradler.com.