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Primitive experiences of loss : working with the paranoid-schizoid patient / Robert T. Waska.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waska, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Personality assessment.
- Personality disorders.
- Psychoanalytic interpretation.
- Psychological Theory.
- Schizophrenia.
- Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders.
- Mental Disorders.
- Schizophrenia, Paranoid.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychological Theory.
- Schizophrenia.
- Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders.
- Mental Disorders.
- Schizophrenia, Paranoid.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Personality assessment.
- Personality disorders.
- Psychoanalytic interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2018.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Taking as his starting point Melanie Klein's concept of the paranoid-schizoid position, and succinctly reviewing subsequent developments within the Kleinian perspective, Robert T. Waska formulates a distinctive and subtle argument concentrated on the topic of primitive loss. It is Waska's conviction that the experience of loss has a primacy within the paranoid-schizoid position but that this has received insufficient and inadequate recognition, with significant implications for analytic technique.With this standpoint as his orienting focus, Waska provides a finely-textured and penetrating discussion of such issues as projective identification, symbolization, transference and counter transference. A thoughtful and perceptive examination of theoretical issues is buttressed with substantial illustrative case material throughout.Calling for further work to be done in refining and clarifying the understanding of loss, and its intrapsychic, interpersonal and technical ramifications, the present volume represents a significant contribution and stimulus to that task"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Introduction; PART I THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION AND SYMBOLIZATION; CHAPTER ONE Theoretical issues; CHAPTER TWO Greed, self-starvation and the quest for safety; CHAPTER THREE Idealization, devluation and the narcissistic stance; CHAPTER FOUR Vunerability, union, and the return of the bad object; CHAPTER FIVE Love, hate, and the dread of impending annihilation; CHAPTER SIX Loss and primitive methods of relating: difficulties in the analytic encounter; CHAPTER SEVEN Maintenance of hope: the working-through process
- PART II PRIMITIVE LOSS ANS THE MASOCHISTIC DEFENCECHAPTER EIGHT Theoretical issues; CHAPTER NINE Working with the concrete thinking of narcissism; CHAPTER TEN Transference and contertransference; CHAPTER ELEVEN Greivance and the paranoid-schizoid experience; Summary and conclusions; REFERENCES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-91753-8
- 0-429-90330-8
- 0-429-47853-4
- 1-283-24868-9
- 9786613248688
- 1-84940-367-8
- 9780429478536
- OCLC:
- 748242057
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