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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812134703321

Autore

Waska Robert T.

Titolo

Love, hate and knowledge : the kleinian method and the future of psychoanalysis / / by Robert Waska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2010

ISBN

0-429-91594-2

0-429-90171-2

0-429-47694-9

1-282-78018-2

9786612780189

1-84940-789-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Disciplina

131.34

616.8917

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis - Methodology

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 (p. 235-243) and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Analytic contact -- section 2. Knowledge, repetition and resolution -- section 3. Transference : counter-transference struggles.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Instead, the concept of analytic contact looks at what takes place with a patient in the clinical situation. Each chapter in this book follows a wide spectrum of cases and clinical situations where hard to reach patients are provided the best opportunity for health and healing through the establishment of analytic contact. This case material closely tracks each patient's phantasies, and transference mechanisms which work to



either increase, oppose, embrace, or neutralize, analytic contact. In addition, the fundamental internal conflicts all patients struggle with between love, hate, and knowledge are represented by extensive case reports.