Projective Identification in the Clinical Setting: A Kleinian Interpretation

by Waska,Robert

• ISBN13: 9781583919538
• ISBN10: 1583919538
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

How do Kleinians work with projective identification? The concept of projective identification, first introduced by Melanie Klein in 1946, has been widely studied by psychoanalysts of different persuasions. However, these explorations have neglected to show what Kleinians actually do with the projective identification phenomenon in their daily casework. Projective Identification in the Clinical Settingpresents a detailed study of Kleinian literature, setting a background of understanding for the day-to-day analytic atmosphere in which projective identification takes place. Extensive clinical material illustrates issues clearly identified for clinical practice, including: the ways projective identification occurs within various psychological constellations; the role of the analyst in countertransference experiences; work with difficult patients who experience life within a paranoid or psychotic framework; the role of projective identificationin pathological greed. This comprehensive account of Kleinian literature on projective identification and wealth of clinical material provide a powerful and clear account of clinical practice around projective identification that all practitioners, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trainees will benefit from reading.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(8)
The Kleinian approach to projective identification: the more usual interpretive stance	9	(29)
The Kleinian interpretation of projective identification: the atypical and less usual interpretive stance	38	(34)
What the literature states about clinical technique	72	(6)
Projective identification: some clinical and diagnostic considerations	78	(16)
Intrapsychic outcome in projective identification	94	(10)
Projective identification, countertransference, and the struggle for understanding over acting out	104	(12)
Projective identification, self-disclosure, and the patient's view of the object: the need for flexibility	116	(15)
The relationship between projective identification, symbolism, and loss within the paranoid-schizoid experience	131	(27)
Hate, projective identification, and the analyst's struggle	158	(9)
The role of projective identification in pathological greed	167	(21)
Interpretation as shaped by projective identification	188	(7)
Summary	195	(6)
Notes	201	(2)
Bibliography	203	(8)
Index	211