The Concept of Analytic Contact: The Kleinian Approach to Reaching the Hard to Reach Patient
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : January 2007
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 25392
- ISBN 13 : 9780415422925
- ISBN 10 : 0415422922
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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 follow a wide spectrum of cases and clinical situations where hard to reach patients are provided with the best opportunity for health and healing through the establishment of analytic contact.
Reviews and Endorsements
Divided into four parts, this book covers:
* the concept of analytic contact
* caution and reluctance concerning psychological engagement
* drugs, Mutilation, and Psychic Fragmentation
* clinical reality, psychoanalysis and the utility of analytic contact.
Analytic contact is demonstrated to be a valuable clinical approach to working analytically with a complicated group of patients in a successful manner. It will be of great interest to all practitioners in the field of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
'Robert Waska is a new and promising American voice in the literature on Kleinian theory and practice and also on the psychoanalytic treatment of the difficult patient. Utmostly he encourages us to "think analytically" while treating any patient no matter how infrequently we see them or how ill they may be. This work also presents us with a studious review and amplification of Kleinian theory and technique.' - James Grotstein
Table of Contents
The Concept of Analytic Contact:
Defining Psychoanalytic Treatment. Clinical Reality and the Concept of Analytic Contact.
The Kleinian Interpretation: Bringing Theory into a Clinical Stance. Projective Identification, Everyday Life, and the Analytic Situation.
Caution and Reluctance Concerning Psychological Engagement:
Reality, Phantasy, and the Fragile of Analytic Contact.
The Analyst as Translator: Speaking the Unspoken.
The Patient's Desire to be Parented Void of Growth or Change.
Drugs, Mutilation, and Psychic Fragmentation: Is Analytic Contact Still Possible?
Addictions.
Psychic Mutilation and the Struggle for Integration.
Fragmented Attachments.
Clinical Reality, Psychoanalysis, and the Utility of Analytic Contact:
Loss.
Looking at Films for Perspective on Structural Change.
Psychoanalysis or Psychotherapy: Shifting the Debate to a Clinical Focus.
Summary.
Bibliography
About the Author(s)
Robert Waska MFT, PhD is a graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies and has a private psychoanalytic practice for individuals and couples in San Francisco and Marin County. Dr. Waska has taught and presented in the Bay Area as well as internationally. He is the author of ten published textbooks on psychoanalytic theory and technique, is a contributing author for both The Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy and The Handbook of Hate, and has published over eighty articles in professional journals. Dr. Waska's work focuses on various contemporary Kleinian topics including projective identification, loss, borderline and psychotic states, the practical realities of psychoanalytic practice in the modern world, and the establishment of analytic contact with difficult, hard to reach patients. He emphasizes the moment-to-moment understanding of transference and phantasy as the vehicle for gradual integration and mastery of unconscious conflict between self and other.
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