Dr Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt is a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst for over 35 years and Supervisor of psychotherapists practicing psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and group therapy. Dr Kavaler-Adler is the Co-Founder, Executive Director, and Senior Faculty & Training Supervisor of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

• 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

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Dr Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt is a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst for over 35 years and Supervisor of psychotherapists practicing psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and group therapy. Dr Kavaler-Adler is the Co-Founder, Executive Director, and Senior Faculty & Training Supervisor of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

• 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

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Dr Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt is a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst for over 35 years and Supervisor of psychotherapists practicing psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and group therapy. Dr Kavaler-Adler is the Co-Founder, Executive Director, and Senior Faculty & Training Supervisor of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

• 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

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