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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816890803321

Autore

Waska Robert

Titolo

Primitive experiences of loss : working with the paranoid-schizoid patient / / Robert T. Waska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-91753-8

0-429-90330-8

0-429-47853-4

1-283-24868-9

9786613248688

1-84940-367-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

616.858

616.8917

Soggetti

Personality assessment

Personality disorders

Psychoanalytic interpretation

Psychological Theory

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia and Disorders with Psychotic Features

Mental Disorders

Schizophrenia, Paranoid

Psychoanalytic Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Introduction; PART I THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION AND SYMBOLIZATION; CHAPTER ONE Theoretical issues; CHAPTER TWO Greed, self-starvation and the quest for safety; CHAPTER THREE Idealization, devluation and the narcissistic stance; CHAPTER FOUR Vunerability, union, and the return of the bad object; CHAPTER FIVE Love, hate, and the dread of impending annihilation; CHAPTER SIX Loss and primitive methods of relating: difficulties in the analytic encounter; CHAPTER SEVEN Maintenance of



hope: the working-through process

PART II PRIMITIVE LOSS ANS THE MASOCHISTIC DEFENCECHAPTER EIGHT Theoretical issues; CHAPTER NINE Working with the concrete thinking of narcissism; CHAPTER TEN Transference and contertransference; CHAPTER ELEVEN Greivance and the paranoid-schizoid experience; Summary and conclusions; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

"Taking as his starting point Melanie Klein's concept of the paranoid-schizoid position, and succinctly reviewing subsequent developments within the Kleinian perspective, Robert T. Waska formulates a distinctive and subtle argument concentrated on the topic of primitive loss. It is Waska's conviction that the experience of loss has a primacy within the paranoid-schizoid position but that this has received insufficient and inadequate recognition, with significant implications for analytic technique.With this standpoint as his orienting focus, Waska provides a finely-textured and penetrating discussion of such issues as projective identification, symbolization, transference and counter transference. A thoughtful and perceptive examination of theoretical issues is buttressed with substantial illustrative case material throughout.Calling for further work to be done in refining and clarifying the understanding of loss, and its intrapsychic, interpersonal and technical ramifications, the present volume represents a significant contribution and stimulus to that task"--Provided by publisher.