Concept of Analytic Contact

• The Concept of Analytic Contact. Defining Psychoanalytic Treatment. Clinical Reality and the Concept of Analytic Contact. The Kleinian Interpretation: Bringing Theory into a Clinical Stance. Projective Identification, Everyday Life, and the Analytic Situation. Caution and Reluctance Concerning Psychological Engagement. Reality, Phantasy, and the Fragile of Analytic Contact. The Analyst as Translator: Speaking the Unspoken. The Patient’s Desire to be Parented Void of Growth or Change. Drugs, Mutilation, and Psychic Fragmentation: Is Analytic Contact Still Possible? Addictions. Psychic Mutilation and the Struggle for Integration. Fragmented Attachments. Clinical Reality, Psychoanalysis, and the Utility of Analytic Contact. Loss. Looking at Films for Perspective on Structural Change. Psychoanalysis or Psychotherapy: Shifting the Debate to a Clinical Focus. Summary. Bibliography.

"Robert Waska is a new and promising American voice in the literature on Kleinian theory and practice and also on the psychoanalytic treatment of the difficult patient. Utmostly he encourages us to "think analytically" while treating any patient no matter how infrequently we see them or how ill they may be. This work also presents us with a studious review and amplification of Kleinian theory and technique." – James Grotstein, Training and Supervising Analyst Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society, USA