Moments of Uncertainty in Therapeutic Practice Interpreting Within the Matrix of Projective Identification, Countertransference, and Enactment

One of therapy's greatest challenges is the moment of transference, when a patient unconsciously transfers emotion or desire to a new and present object—in some cases the therapist. During the course of treatment, a patient's projections and the analyst's struggle to divert them can s...

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Autor principal: Waska, Robert, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press [2011]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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
  • References
  • Index