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  • The Modern Kleinian Approach to Psychoanalytic Technique

    Clinical Illustrations

    by Robert Waska ...
    The Modern Kleinian Approach to Psychoanalytic Technique: Clinical Illustrations describes how today's practitioner typically treats a number of types of very disturbed and hard-to-reach patients who, while prone to intense acting out and early termination, are in great need of in-depth psychological reorganization. Many cases barely get off the ground due to levels of pathological conflict and ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Projective Identification

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Robert Waska ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
    This clear and thoughtful book by Robert Waska provides an accessible introduction to Projective Identification and the role it plays in internal and external life.Waska explores how Projective Identification is the foundation for much of psychic life, driving internal phantasy, influencing interpersonal behavior, and contributing to the transference/countertransference environment. This book ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions

    The Kleinian Psychoanalytic Approach with Difficult Patients

    by Robert Waska ...
    Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions offers a clear introduction to psychoanalytic practice from a Kleinian perspective and shows how the modern Kleinian works with the most taxing and least conforming of their patients.Illustrated by extensive case material this book:*reviews Freud's original theoretical concepts and examines Klein's contributions to the field of psychoanalysis, clarifying ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Primitive Experiences of Loss

    Working with the Paranoid-Schizoid Patient

    by Robert Waska ...
    Taking as his starting point Melanie Klein's concept of the paranoid-schizoid position, and succinctly reviewing subsequent developments within the Kleinian perspective, the author formulates a distinctive and subtle argument concentrated on the topic of primitive loss. It is the author's conviction that the experience of loss has a primacy within the paranoid-schizoid position but that this has ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Treating Severe Depressive and Persecutory Anxiety States

    To Transform the Unbearable

    by Robert Waska ...
    This book serves two purposes. First, it provides the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist with a more flexible method of practicing psychoanalysis. This is the clinical approach of "analytic contact", a technical stance in which more patients can be reached in a deeper and more helpful manner. Analytic contact is an operationally robust Kleinian approach for the real world of private practice and ... Read more

    Was $54.99 USD Now $46.99 USD

  • Moments of Uncertainty in Therapeutic Practice

    Interpreting Within the Matrix of Projective Identification, Countertransference, and Enactment

    by Robert Waska, , Ph.D. ...
    One of therapy's greatest challenges is the moment of transference, when a patient unconsciously transfers emotion or desire to a new and present object-in some cases the therapist. During the course of treatment, a patient's projections and the analyst's struggle to divert them can stress, distort, or contaminate the therapeutic relationship. It may lead to various forms of enactment, in which ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Love, Hate and Knowledge

    The Kleinian Method and the Future of Psychoanalysis

    by Robert Waska ...
    This book introduces the clinical concept of analytic contact. This is a term that describes the therapeutic method of investigation that makes up psychoanalytic treatment. The field has been in debate for decades regarding what constitutes psychoanalysis. This usually centers on theoretical ideals regarding analyzability, goals, or procedure and external criteria such as frequency or use of couch ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A Practical Casebook of Time-Limited Psychoanalytic Work

    A Modern Kleinian approach

    by Robert Waska ...
    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

    Was $59.99 USD Now $51.99 USD

  • A Casebook of Psychotherapy Practice with Challenging Patients

    A modern Kleinian approach

    by Robert Waska ...
    Most contemporary psychoanalysts and psychotherapists see each patient once or twice a week at most. As many patients have reached a marked state of distress before seeking treatment, this gives the analyst a difficult task to accomplish in what is a limited amount of time. A Casebook of Psychotherapy Practice with Challenging Patients: A modern Kleinian approach sets out a model for working with ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Danger of Change

    The Kleinian Approach with Patients Who Experience Progress as Trauma

    by Robert Waska ...
    Confusing clinical standoffs, loyalty to self-destruction and abrupt terminations are challenging and under-examined problems for the modern psychoanalytic practitioner. The Danger of Change is a timely book that addresses the so-called resistant patient so many clinicians are familiar with.Robert Waska blends theory based on Melanie Klein’s classical stance with the more contemporary Freudian ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Concept of Analytic Contact

    The Kleinian Approach to Reaching the Hard to Reach Patient

    by Robert Waska ...
    The Concept of Analytic Contact presents practitioners with new ways to assist the often severely disturbed patients that come to see them in both private and institutional settings. In this book Robert Waska outlines the use of psychoanalysis as a method of engagement that can be utilised with or without the addition of multiple weekly visits and the analytic couch.The chapters in this book ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Total Transference and the Complete Counter-Transference

    The Kleinian Psychoanalytic Approach with More Disturbed Patients

    by Robert Waska ...
    The book takes the reader “into the trenches” with the author as he describes his psychoanalytic work with a variety of patients with difficult and complex conditions. The reader becomes familiar with the clinical and theoretical difficulties psychoanalysts encounter in their day to day practice with such patients, especially the counter-transference reactions so common with patients who rely on ... Read more

    $93.99 USD