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 contains several case studies which explore and expand on the concepts described and which demonstrate how a psychotherapist can understand, contain, and interpret the states patients seek help with. Additionally, this book introduces a clinical technique which is intended to tame the underlying emotional conflicts.
Part of the popular Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, this book will be essential to students of psychoanalysis, as well as academics and practitioners familiarising themselves with Projective Identification in a clinical setting.
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.
01. The Concept and Its Clinical Impact
02. Clinical Aims in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
03. The Form and Function of PI
04. Multiple
Motives and Meanings
05. Working With and Through PI
06. Taming It in
Psychotherapy
07. Reaching Towards and Pulling Away
08. The Clinical Exchange
09. The Evolution of PI Patterns
10. Shifting Internal Dynamics
11. Universal
Experience
12. Clinical Moments within PI
13. Interpretive Efforts
14. The
Fear of Change
15. Coping, Communicating, and Connecting
Robert Waska, PhD, MFT, LPCC, provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy for individuals and couples in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has written fourteen textbooks on the Modern Kleinian approach to treatment, teaches and consults internationally, and is a contributing author for both The Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy and The Handbook of Hate .
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