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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792180703321

Autore

Waska Robert T.

Titolo

A practical casebook for time-limited psychoanalytic work : a modern Kleinian approach / / Robert Waska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-134-09030-7

1-134-09023-4

0-203-38316-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/17

Soggetti

Brief psychotherapy

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

<P>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 environment or frequency of sessions are compromised. Chapter by chapter the book provides detailed clinical material to illustrate the complex dynamics that unfold when working with more closed off patients