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The total transference and the complete counter-transference : the Kleinian psychoanalytic approach with more disturbed patients /

The book takes the reader "into the trenches" with the author as he describes his psychoanalytic work with a variety of patients with difficult and complex conditions. The reader becomes familiar with the clinical and theoretical difficulties psychoanalysts encounter in their day to day pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waska, Robert T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • As-if way of life versus the as-is way of life: confusions between servant, master, and self
  • Low-frequency psychoanalytic engagement with a depressive patient: the beginning phase of treatment from a Kleinian approach
  • Graveyard sentry, self-induced comas, and building the better beast
  • Dark side of the depressive position: severe struggles with guilt, persecutory loss, and excessive reliance on projective identification
  • Kleinian work within the narcissistic realm
  • Difficulties of working with thick-skinned narcissists: envy, projective identification, and the internal void
  • Striving toward useful interpretations with narcissistic patients: managing counter-transference enactments with a thick-skinned narcissist
  • Patients who avoid the threat of persecutory mourning by means of entitlement, devaluation, and a demand for action
  • I thought I was special. If not, I am nothing: the treatment of primitive loss and the defensive search for uniqueness
  • Lack of traction in the analytic process: adrift in the counter-transference.