Table of Contents

Introduction. The Kleinian Approach to Projective Identification: The More Usual Interpretive Stance. The Kleinian Interpretation to Projective Identification: The Atypical and Less Usual Interpretive Stance. What the Literature States about Clinical Technique. Projective Identification: Some Clinical and Diagnostic Considerations. Intrapsychic Outcome in Projective Identification. Projective Identification, Countertransference, and the Struggle for Understanding over Acting Out. Projective Identification, Self-Disclosure, and the Patient's View of the Object: The Need for Flexibility. The Relationship between Projective Identification, Symbolism, and Loss within the Paranoid-Schizoid Experience. Hate, Projective Identification, and the Therapist's Struggle. The Role of Projective Identification in Pathological Greed. Interpretation as Shaped by Projective Identification. Summary.

About the Author

Robert Waska

Reviews

This comprehensive account of kleinian literature on projective indentification and wealth of clinical material provide a powerful and clear account of clinical practice around projective indentification that all practicioners, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trainees will benefit from reading. - Pulsional Revista de Psicanalise, June 2004