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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Waska, Robert T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Containing, translating, and interpretive acting out : the quest for therapeutic balance
  • Slippery when wet : the imperfect art of interpretation
  • Interpretive acting out : unavoidable and sometimes useful
  • Enactments, interactions, and interpretations
  • Kleinian couple's treatment : a complicated case
  • Failures, successes, and question marks
  • Different ways of controlling the object
  • Taming, restoring, and rebuilding, or sealing off, burying, and eliminating the object : two ways of controlling the other
  • Two varieties of psychic retreat : the struggle with combined paranoid and depressive conflicts
  • Trapped in an emotional foxhole : coping with paranoid and depressive conflicts
  • Discussion.