Modern Kleinian Approach to Psychoanalytic Technique

Robert Waska introduces a groundbreaking view of modern Kleinian psychoanalytic work applied to a wide spectrum of patients. The contemporary Kleinian approach of Analytic Contact redefines psychoanalytic psychotherapy as the treatment of choice for neurotic, borderline, and narcissistic patients with hope, change, and growth as a realistic goal.

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. 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.

Part 1 Part I-Two Modes of Phantasy and Transference Chapter 2 Chapter 1-Soft and Quiet, Hard and Loud: Two Types of Complex Transference States Chapter 3 Chapter 2-Finding the Meaning:Moment-to-Moment Transference Workwith the Loud/Sharp States of Mind Part 4 Part II-A Gift to the Alter: Generosity, Primitive Guilt, and Self-Protection Chapter 5 Chapter 3-Pathological Aspects of Giving and Receiving: Conflicts within the Paranoid/Depressive Spectrum Chapter 6 Chapter 4-Varieties of Depressive Anxiety: Fragile Patients in the Frey Chapter 7 Chapter 5-Trouble in Paradise: The Trauma of Separation and Individuation within the Depressive Realm Part 8 Part III-Striving for Analytic Contact under Difficult Conditions Chapter 9 Chapter 6-Doing the Best We Can: Establishing Analytic Contact with Non-Attachment Patients Chapter 10 Chapter 7-The Object Relational Struggles of Libidinal and Destructive Narcissists Part 11 Conclusion