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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRobert Waska augments plentiful clinical material by detailing his process as he considers potential interventions. In a move that is all too rare among psychoanalytic writers, he includes even his interpretive failures, supplementing them with retrospective commentary that both elucidates and provides alternative formulations. Even seasoned clinicians will benefit from a volume that merits a place high on student reading lists. -- Nancy Vanderheide, Psy.D., president of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction Section 1. Interpretive Acting Out 1. Containing, Translating, and Interpretive Acting Out: The Quest for Therapeutic Balance 2. Slippery When Wet: The Imperfect Art of Interpretation 3. Interpretive Acting Out: Unavoidable and Sometimes Useful 4. Enactments, Interactions, and Interpretations Section 2. Difficult and Jagged: Imperfect Clinical Situations 5. Kleinian Couple's Treatment: A Complicated Case 6. Failures, Successes, and Question Marks Section 3. The Emotional Foxhole 7. Different Ways of Controlling the Object 8. Taming, Restoring, and Rebuilding, or Sealing off, Burying, and Eliminating the Object: Two Ways of Controlling the Other 9. Two Varieties of Psychic Retreat: The Struggle with Combined Paranoid and Depressive Conflicts 10. Trapped in an Emotional Foxhole: Coping with Paranoid and Depressive Conflicts Discussion Bibliography Index
