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Self Sabotage Group Announcement - 111409
Self Sabotage Group Announcement - 111409
In this group, Dr. Kavaler-Adler will help participants to understand the underpinnings of
self sabotage, fear of envy, and fear of success in both their patients and in themselves,
by helping them to understand the unconscious loyalties that bind them to patterns of
self sabotage.
Participants of this group will have a unique opportunity to look into their internal world
experiences during the psychic guided visualization. Participants will be encouraged to
share their experiences and develop a group bond to aid each other in working with their
fears and conflicts.
Bio: Susan Kavaler-Adler (Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt, NCPsyA) is the Founder and Executive Director of
the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (since 1991). She has practiced
as a psychologist and psychoanalyst for 35 years. She is the author of three books and 58 articles (in
journals and edited book collections). She won the National Gradiva Award in 2004 for her third
book, Mourning, Spirituality and Psychic Change: A New Object Relations View of
Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2003). She has won ten other awards for her writing in psychoanalysis.
Her two earlier books are: The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers
(Routledge 1993, Other Press, 2000), and The Creative Mystique: From Red Shoes Frenzy to Love
and Creativity (Routledge, 1996).