Projective Identification

A Contemporary Introduction

Robert Waska

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781000465037
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This clear and thoughtful book by Robert Waska provides an accessible introduction to Projective Identification and the role it plays in internal and external life.

Waska explores how Projective Identification is the foundation for much of psychic life, driving internal phantasy, influencing interpersonal behavior, and contributing to the transference/countertransference environment. This book contains several case studies which explore and expand on the concepts described and which demonstrate how a psychotherapist can understand, contain, and interpret the states patients seek help with. Additionally, this book introduces a clinical technique which is intended to tame the underlying emotional conflicts.

Part of the popular Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis series, this book will be essential to students of psychoanalysis, as well as academics and practitioners familiarising themselves with Projective Identification in a clinical setting.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Information Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The concept and the clinical impact
• Chapter 2 Clinical aims in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• Chapter 3 The form and function of PI
• Chapter 4 Multiple motives and meanings
• Chapter 5 Working with and through PI
• Chapter 6 Taming it in psychotherapy
• Chapter 7 Reaching towards and pulling away
• Chapter 8 The clinical exchange
• Chapter 9 The evolution of PI patterns
• Chapter 10 Shifting internal dynamics
• Chapter 11 Universal experiences
• Chapter 12 Clinical moments within PI
• Chapter 13 Interpretive efforts
• Chapter 14 The fear of change
• Conclusion: Coping, communicating, and connecting
• Bibliography
• Index