Interpretive Acting-Out: Unavoidable and Sometimes Useful

Graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies and maintains a private psychoanalytic practice for individuals and couples in San Francisco and Marin County. Dr. Waska has taught and presented locally and internationally. He is the author of seven published textbooks on psychoanalytic theory and technique, is a contributing author for the new Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy, and has published over 80 articles in professional journals. His work focuses on various contemporary Kleinian topics including projective identification, loss, borderline and psychotic states, the practical realities of psychoanalytic practice in the modern world, and the establishment of analytic contact with difficult, hard to reach patients. Dr. Waska emphasizes the moment-to-moment understanding of transference and phantasy as the vehicle for gradual integration and mastery of unconscious conflict between self and other.