Real people, real problems, real solutions :the Kleinian psychoanalytic approach with difficult patients
New York, NY
Brunner-Routledge
2005
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
1st ed
An overview of the psychoanalytic method: the Freudian -- Model -- Melanie Klein and the Kleinian approach -- The modern Kleinians -- The patients: helping people within an analytic perspective -- The difficult patient and the psychoanalytic approach -- Keeping the analytic focus -- Difficult but worth the effort -- A mixed bag: the realities of private practice -- Gone but not forgotten: a new look at difficult cases -- Kleinians in the real world -- Working from the Kleinian perspective -- The ideal patient and the realities of clinical work -- Brief and atypical encounters -- Clinical perspectives on theoretical and training paradigms -- A day in the life of a psychoanalyst -- How we work and why it matters