Klein in the Trenches: Working With Disturbed Patients - Couverture rigide

Waska, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9042035749 ISBN 13 : 9789042035744

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2012

Synopsis

This book explores the theoretical and technical aspects of Modern Kleinian Therapy with borderline, narcissistic, and psychotic patients who are in great psychological conflict and who struggle to find stable footing in the relational world. These are the patients who are most taxing and troubling for all therapists as they suffer greatly in life but tend to leave a great deal of suffering in their wake.
Throughout the book, the reader is provided a close up clinical view of what really takes place in psychoanalytic treatment with psychologically disorganized, predatory, or internally terrorized patients who often can barely begin or maintain a therapeutic relationship as they experience it as emotionally threatening, dangerous, and unbearable. Aspects of Kleinian theory are highlighted through examining very personal verbatim accounts from patients of their internal emotional experiences. And, Kleinian concepts and techniques are clinically demonstrated. Change is shown to be possible in situations that initially seem unchangeable and acceptance is shown to be reachable in situations that initially seem unbearable. While success can be fleeting or unreachable, the author shows how to best find the potential for therapeutic success and to learn from the failures or modest achievements so common with more difficult patients. In that sense, this book serves as inspiration and hope to all therapists working with borderline, narcissistic, and psychotic patients.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Robert Waska’s clinical work, now thirty years in the making, focuses on 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042035749
• ISBN 13: 9789042035744
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 217
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible