1st Edition

A Practical Casebook of Time-Limited Psychoanalytic Work A Modern Kleinian approach

By Robert Waska Copyright 2013
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Modern Kleinian Therapy is a model of effective psychoanalytic work that offers relief to deep internal conflicts by establishing and maintaining analytic contact, and beginning to unravel, modify, and heal turbulent and torn minds. This book defines Modern Kleinian Therapy as a modality for treating severely affected patients in a fairly traditional psychoanalytic manner, even when the... Read more

The Initial Psychoanalytic Interaction. Once a Week Frequency. Paranoia and the Object of Dread. Couples Treatment and the Quest for Analytic Contact. Stumbling in the Counter-transference. Catching My Balance in the Counter-Transference. Combative and Reactive Patients. Embedded Enactments and Emotional Truth. The Limits of Our Value and the Value of Our Limits. Keeping the Faith When Working with Turbulent Patients. Phantasies of Dread, Demand, and Desire. Captured and Absorbed into the Familiar. The Give and Take in Projective Identification.

Biography

Robert Waska is a graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, an International Psychoanalytical Association affiliate organization. He runs a psychoanalytic practice for individuals and couples in San Francisco and Marin County, California, USA.