Real people, real problems, real solutions
Subtitle: the Kleinian psychoanalytic approach with difficult patients
By: Robert Waska.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Klein, Melanie; Psychoanalysis -- Practice; Psychotherapist and patient; Analysands
Description: "Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions offers a clear introduction to psychoanalytic practice from a Kleinian perspective and shows how the modern Kleinian works with the most taxing of their patients." "Through its integrated blending of clinical and theoretical findings Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions shows how the average psychoanalyst and psychotherapist face many difficult patients in a typical day's work."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of the psychoanalytic method: the Freudian; title: Model; title: Melanie Klein and the Kleinian approach; title: The modern Kleinians; title: The patients: helping people within an analytic perspective; title: The difficult patient and the psychoanalytic approach; title: Keeping the analytic focus; title: Difficult but worth the effort; title: A mixed bag: the realities of private practice; title: Gone but not forgotten: a new look at difficult cases; title: Kleinians in the real world; title: Working from the Kleinian perspective; title: The ideal patient and the realities of clinical work; title: Brief and atypical encounters; title: Clinical perspectives on theoretical and training paradigms; title: A day in the life of a psychoanalyst; title: How we work and why it matters.