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The Concept of Analytic Contact: The Kleinian Approach to Reaching the Hard to Reach Patient
Contributor(s): Waska, Robert (Author)
ISBN: 0415422914     ISBN-13: 9780415422918
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $133.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2007
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science
- Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis
- Psychology | Mental Health
Dewey: 616.891
LCCN: 2007006405
Physical Information: 264 pages
 
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The Concept of Analytic Contact presents practitioners with new ways to assist the often severely disturbed patients that come to see them in both private and institutional settings. In this book Robert Waska outlines the use of psychoanalysis as a method of engagement that can be utilised with or without the addition of multiple weekly visits and the analytic couch.

The chapters in this book follow a wide spectrum of cases and clinical situations where hard to reach patients are provided with the best opportunity for health and healing through the establishment of analytic contact. Divided into four parts, this book covers:

  • the concept of analytic contact
  • caution and reluctance concerning psychological engagement
  • drugs, mutilation, and psychic fragmentation
  • clinical reality, psychoanalysis and the utility of analytic contact.

Analytic contact is demonstrated to be a valuable clinical approach to working analytically with a complicated group of patients in a successful manner. It will be of great interest to all practitioners in the field of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.