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Between Unknown Change and Familiar Retreat
Psychotherapy Technique for Our Most Challenging Patients
Series: - Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies Online, Volume: 25
- Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume: 25
Author:
The theme of Dr. Robert Waska’s new book involves how all patients, whether neurotic, borderline, or psychotic, want their problems to ease and their stress to stop but unconsciously they avoid any real psychological change. They strive to maintain their psychic equilibrium regardless of how destructive it may be, in an effort to avoid the loss of what is known and to avoid the unknown pain or punishment that change might bring.
Each chapter provides the reader with a contemporary Kleinian focus on central theoretical and clinical concepts such as projective identification, enactment, transference, pathological organizations, and depressive or paranoid acting out. The reader then is shown the careful and thoughtful interpretive work necessary in these complex clinical situations.
Each chapter provides the reader with a contemporary Kleinian focus on central theoretical and clinical concepts such as projective identification, enactment, transference, pathological organizations, and depressive or paranoid acting out. The reader then is shown the careful and thoughtful interpretive work necessary in these complex clinical situations.
Robert Waska MFT, LPCC, PhD is in private practice in San Francisco and a full analytic member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. He has authored thirteen text books, numerous book chapters, and over one hundred journal articles on the Modern Kleinian approach to individuals and couples.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Contemporary Kleinian Therapy
1 Translating the Turmoil in the First Five Sessions: Real Time Response in Psychoanalytic Treatment Using the Modern Kleinian Therapy Approach
Case Material
Case #1
Discussion
Case #2
Case #3
Discussion
2 The Territory of the Transference and the Value of Phantasy Interpretation: A Kleinian Expansion
Case Material
Case #2
Case Material
Discussion
3 Working Within, the Compromised Formation, and Analytic Contact: Three Aspects of Modern Kleinian Clinical Work
Working With/Within
Compromised Formation
Analytic Contact
Case Material
Recent Progress
Part II. The Darkness of the Depressive Position
4 For My Benefit: A Case Study of One Patient's Fear of Self-Definition and His Depressive Phantasies of Disappointment and Rejection
Case Study
Clinical Issues within the Transference and Counter-Transference
Session #14
Discussion
5 The Depths of Depressive Despair: When Saying Goodbye is Too Dangerous to Bear
The Patient
The Treatment
Case Material
Theoretical Issues
Discussion
6 Depressive Anxiety and the Motives for Manic Control
Case Material
Case Material
7 Unbearable Separation, Guilt, and the Dread of Loss
Case Material
Discussion
Part III. Paranoid Schizoid Inertia and Countertransference Conflict
8 Psychotic Process, Counter-Transference, and the Psychic Shelter
The Psychic Shelter
Case Material
9 Projective Identification in Restricted and Uncontained States of Mind
Case Material
Ben's Shelter
The Countertransference
Bibliograpy
Index
Introduction
Part I. Contemporary Kleinian Therapy
1 Translating the Turmoil in the First Five Sessions: Real Time Response in Psychoanalytic Treatment Using the Modern Kleinian Therapy Approach
Case Material
Case #1
Discussion
Case #2
Case #3
Discussion
2 The Territory of the Transference and the Value of Phantasy Interpretation: A Kleinian Expansion
Case Material
Case #2
Case Material
Discussion
3 Working Within, the Compromised Formation, and Analytic Contact: Three Aspects of Modern Kleinian Clinical Work
Working With/Within
Compromised Formation
Analytic Contact
Case Material
Recent Progress
Part II. The Darkness of the Depressive Position
4 For My Benefit: A Case Study of One Patient's Fear of Self-Definition and His Depressive Phantasies of Disappointment and Rejection
Case Study
Clinical Issues within the Transference and Counter-Transference
Session #14
Discussion
5 The Depths of Depressive Despair: When Saying Goodbye is Too Dangerous to Bear
The Patient
The Treatment
Case Material
Theoretical Issues
Discussion
6 Depressive Anxiety and the Motives for Manic Control
Case Material
Case Material
7 Unbearable Separation, Guilt, and the Dread of Loss
Case Material
Discussion
Part III. Paranoid Schizoid Inertia and Countertransference Conflict
8 Psychotic Process, Counter-Transference, and the Psychic Shelter
The Psychic Shelter
Case Material
9 Projective Identification in Restricted and Uncontained States of Mind
Case Material
Ben's Shelter
The Countertransference
Bibliograpy
Index
Beginning clinicians as well as advanced practitioners will be interested.