Merger v. Marriage: What is the Couple?

Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler discusses how various couples differ developmentally. Sometimes, two people create the enmeshed/ psychically merged relationship, and some others  who are two separate and differentiated people -- create a couple, where each person has their opinions, fears, and yearnings for each other.

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The Object Relations View Podcast" is the place for all curious about human development and the WHYs of our behavior, relationships, and life trajectories - from the perspective of the Object Relations psychoanalytic school, British and American. Topics will include projective identification v. projection, self-sabotage, fear of success, loyalty to bad objects, love addiction, creativity and writing blocks, among many. New episodes every day, by psychoanalyst, theorist, author Susan Kavaler-Adler, a founder of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (www.orinyc.org)