Journal Articles

Waska, R. (1991) A Brief Examination of the Principle Methods for Dynamic Change within the Analytic-Object Relations Mode of Functioning, The California Therapist, 3:6,  40-41

Waska, R. (1993) Dynamic Theory, Guntrip, and ''The Last of the Mohicans'', Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Spring, 13-14.

Waska, R. (1995) On the Value of the Analyst's Countertransference, The Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, 13:2,  65-80.

Waska, R. (1996) The Wandering Soul: Narcissism and the Failure to Integrate the Self-Soothing Function, Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, 5:4, 445-475.

Waska, R. (1997) Reply to Dr. Essman's Critique, Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis, 6:2,. 267-272.

Waska, R. (1997) Co-Dependency in the Context of Psychoanalytic Thought, The California Therapist, 9:2, 43-45

Waska, R. (1997) Precursors to Masochistic and Dependent Character Development, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 57:3, 253-267.

Waska, R. (1997)  Reality and Phantasy, The Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, 15:1,  135-143.

Waska, R. (1997) Self-Mutilation, Substance Abuse, and the Psychoanalytic Approach, The American Journal of Psychotherapy, 52:1, 18-27

Waska, R. (1998)  Projective Identification: Some Clinical Considerations, Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 25:3, 439-454

Waska, R. (1998) Intrapsychic Outcome in Projective Identification, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 62:3, 366-377

Waska, R. (1998)  The Somatic Retreat and the Use of Autistic Objects, The Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, 16:1, 147-162

Waska, R. (1998)  Hate, Dislike, and Disinterest, The Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, 16:2,  389-405

Waska, R. (1999)  Projective Identification, Countertransference, and the Struggle for Understanding over Acting Out, Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 8:2, 155-161

Waska, R. (1999) Psychoanalytic Perspectives Concerning the Impact of Managed Care on Psychotherapy, Journal of Analytic Social Work, 6:2, 61-77

Waska, R. (1999) Bargains, Treaties, and Delusions, Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 27:3, 451-469

Waska, R. (1999) Oral Deprivation, Envy, and the Sadistic Aspects of the Ego, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 7:1, 97-110

Waska, R. (1999) The Clinical Implications of Kleinian Theory to Interpretation, The Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, 17:2, 349-366

Waska, R. (1999) Projective Identification, Self-Disclosure, and the Patient=s View of the Object: The Need for Flexibility, The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 8:3, 233-255

Waska, R. (1999) Hate, Projective Identification, and the Therapist=s Struggle, The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 9:1, 33-38

Waska, R. (2000) Intrapsychic Momentum and the Psychoanalytic Process, American Journal of Psychotherapy, 54:1, 26-42

Waska, R (2000) Paranoid-Schizoid Anxiety, Triangulation, and Oedipal Trauma, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 60:2, 163-176

Waska, R (2000) The Symbolic Object, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 7:2, 25-44

Waska, R (2000) Experiences of Intrapsychic Loss Within the Paranoid-Schizoid Position, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 22:2, 19-33

Waska, R (2000) Paranoid-Schizoid Anxieties and the Breakdown of Internal Placeholders: the Workplace as Trigger, Psychoanalytic Studies, 2:3, 277-289

Waska, R (2000) Character Disorders: the Difficult Patient and the Psychoanalytic Approach, California Therapist, V12:3, 54-58

Waska, R (2000) The Shawshank Redemption: An Oedipal Struggle, Psychotherapy Review, 2:11,593-4

Waska, R (2000) The Ideal Patient and the Realities of Clinical Work, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 30:4, 381-399

Waska, R (2001) Some Thoughts on Mrs. Klein: a Theater Review, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 10:3-4, 275-278

Waska, R (2001) The Clinical Advantage of the Death Instinct, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 8:2, 23-40

Waska, R (2001) Working with Difficult Patients, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 7:4, 75-93

Waska, R (2001) Schizoid Anxiety: A Reappraisal of the Manic Defense and the Depressive Position, American Journal of Psychotherapy, 55:1, 105-121

Waska, R (2001) Gone But Not Forgotten: A New Look at Difficult Cases, Psychodynamic Counselling, 7:2;159-176

Waska, R (2001) Interpretation as Shaped by Projective Identification, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 31:4, 279-285

Waska, R (2002) Mutilation of Self and Object: the Destructive World of the Paranoid-Schizoid Patient and Their Struggle for Containment and Integration, Psychoanalytic Review, 89:3, 373-398

Waska, R (2002) Acting Out, the Death Instinct, and Primitive Experiences of Loss and Guilt, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 10:1, 25-44

Waska, R (2002) Fragmentation, Persecution, and Primitive Guilt: Clinical and Theoretical Issues with Psychotic Patients, Psychodynamic Practice: Individuals, Groups, and Organizations, 8:2, 147-162

Waska, R (2002) Craving, Longing, Denial, and the Dangers of Change: Clinical Manifestations of Greed, Psychoanalytic Review, 89:4, 505-531

Waska, R (2003) A Mixed Bag: the Realities of Psychoanalytic Practice, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 63:1, 49-67

Waska, R (2003) Three Phases of Treatment with Borderline and Psychotic Patients, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 11:4, 286-295

Waska, R (2003) Fragmented Attachments: the Paranoid-Schizoid Experiences of Loss and Persecution, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 67:1, 50-64

Waska, R (2003) The Impossible Dream and the Endless Nightmare: Clinical Manifestations of Greed, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 11:2, 379-397

Waska, R (2003) Greed, Idealization, and the Paranoid-Schizoid Experience of Insatiability, Scandinavian Review of Psychoanalysis, 26: 41-50

Waska, R (2003) Setting the Bar Too High: Greed, Idealization, and the Loss of a Safe Object, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 25:1, 37-52

Waska, R (2003) I Hear You Knocking But You Cant Come In: Two Reasons to Refuse the Good Object, Psychoanalytic Review, 91:2, 239-256

Waska, R (2003-2004) Paranoid-Schizoid Anxieties, Loss, and the Use of Projective Identification within the Treatment Process, Samiksa: Journal of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 57: 47-57

Waska, R (2004) How Psychoanalysis Really Works with Patients and Why It Matters, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 26:1, 5-19

Waska, R (2004) Greed and the Frightening Rumble of Psychic Hunger,  American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 64:3, 253-266

Waska, R (2005) A Day in the Life of a Psychoanalyst: Part One, Journal of Psychodynamic Practice, 11:1, 7-16

Waska, R (2005) A Day in the Life of a Psychoanalyst: Part Two, Journal of Psychodynamic Practice, 11:1, 17-28

Waska, R (2005) A Review of Guilt: Revenge, Remorse, and Responsibility After Freud, by Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca, Journal of Psychodynamic Practice, 11:4, 481-484

Waska, R (2005) Symbolization and the Good Object, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 69:1, 81-97

Waska, R (2005) A Case of Borderline Anxiety and the Process of Analytic Transformation, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 65:2, 149-165

Waska, R (2005) Making Analytic Contact with Difficult Patients: Successes, Failures, and Everything In-Between, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 27:1, 27-47

Waska, R (2006) Addictions and the Quest to Control the Object, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 66:1, 43-62

Waska, R (2006) Addictions and the Quest to Control the Object, Samiksa: Journal of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society, v58, 1-16

Waska, R (2006) Two Tales of Loss and the Search for Solution: New Thoughts on Acting Out, Sadomasochism, and Working Through, International Journal of Applied Psychoanalysis, 3:1, 101-110

Waska, R (2006) Psychoanalysis or Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Shifting the Debate from Theoretical to Clinical with the Concept of Analytic Contact, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 70:2, 145-159

Waska, R (2006) Has Analytic Contact Been Established? Refocusing Political, Organizational, and Theoretical Debates into a Clinical Issue: Part One, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 15:4, 233--243

Waska, R (2006) The Analyst as Translator, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 13:43-65

Waska, R (2006) Extreme Reactions to Knowledge: Four Clinical Situations, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 28:2, 47-68

Waska, R (2007) Projective Identification as an Inescapable Aspect of the Therapeutic Relationship, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 14:2, 43-64

Waska, R (2007) Review of Other Banalities: Melanie Klein Revisited, Journal of Psychodynamic Practice, 13:4, 429

Waska, R (2007) Has Analytic Contact Been Established? Refocusing Political, Organizational, and Theoretical Debates into a Clinical Issue: Part Two, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 16: 28-37

Waska, R (2007) The Current State of the Field, the Future of Psychoanalysis, and the Concept of Analytic Contact, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 29:2, 87-105

Waska, R (2007) The Search for and Avoidance of Knowledge, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 71:3, 187-204

Waska, R (2007) When Patients Face the Dual Threat of Depressive and Paranoid Phantasies, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 21:4, 315-29

Waska, R (2008) Why Won’t the Voices Leave Me Alone? Patients Who Live in a World of Persecutory Anxiety, Psychodynamic Practice, 14:2, 193-206

Waska, R (2008) A Review of Encounters with Melanie Klein: Collected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius, Psychodynamic Practice, 14:4, 469

Waska, R (2008) Session-by-Session Report of a Low Frequency Kleinian Psychoanalysis with a Borderline Patient, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 72:2, 85-108

Waska, R (2008) When Suffering Never Ends: The Internal Experience of the Paranoid and Depressive Worlds Colliding, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, in press

Waska, R (2008) A Kleinian View of Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy: Part One, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 22:2, 100

Waska, R (2008) A Kleinian View of Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy: Part Two, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 22:2, 118

Waska, R (2008) Using the Counter-Transference: Analytic Contact, Projective Identification, and Transference Phantasy States, American Journal of Psychotherapy, 62:4, 1-19

Waska, R (2008) Is It Psychoanalysis? The Clinical Concept of Analytic Contact, Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 16:2, 151

Waska, R (2009) Longing for the Disappointing Object and Dreading Its Return, Psychoanalytic Review, 96:4, 613-629

Waska, R (2009) Interpretive Acting Out: Unavoidable and Sometimes Useful, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 18:3, 149-157

Waska, R (2009) Slippery When Wet: The Imperfect Art of Interpretation, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 73:2, 97-117

Waska, R (2009) Taming, Restoring, and Rebuilding or Restraining and Expelling: Controlling the Fallen Idols, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology, 31:1, 1-20

Waska, R (2009) Controlling, Avoiding, or Protecting the Object: Three Reactions to the Breakdown of Psychic Retreats, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 16:1, 58

Waska, R (2009) Containing, Translating, and Interpretive Acting Out: The Quest for Therapeutic Balance, Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 32: 23-31

Waska, R (2009) The Contemporary Value of Melanie Klein's Approach: The Kleinian Method of Analytic Contact, Community Institute for Psychotherapy Newsletter, 18:3, 2-3

Waska, R (2009) The Contemporary Value of Melanie Klein's Approach: The Kleinian Method of Analytic Contact, San Francisco CAMFT Newsletter, Sept/Oct

Waska, R (2009) From First Phone Call to First Session: A Psychoanalytic View of Some Typical Transference and Counter-transference Problems, The Therapist, Sept/Oct Issue, 55-57

Waska, R (2010) A Summery and Review: Rosenfeld in Retrospect, Psychodynamic Practice, 16:3

Waska, R (2010) The As-If Way of Life Versus The As-Is Way of Life: Confusions Between Servant, Master, and Self, Journal of the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society, 12:2

Waska, R (2010) Stumbling Along in the Counter-Transference: Following Up Enactments with Balanced Therapeutic Interpretations, Psychoanalytic Social Work Journal, 17:1-17

Waska, R (2010) Different Forms of Optimism: Ways to Save the Self and the Object, Samiksa, Journal of the Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 60:35-48

Waska, R (2011) Review of Envy and Gratitude Revisited, Psychodynamic Practice, 17:3

Waska, R (2011) Low Frequency Psychoanalytic Engagement with a Depressive Patient: The Beginning Phase of Treatment from a Kleinian Approach, Psychodynamic Practice, 17:2, 159-175

Waska, R (2011) Catching my Balance in the Counter-Transference: Difficult Moments with Patients in Psychoanalytic Treatment, International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 20:3, 167

Waska, R (2011) Striving Toward Useful Interpretation While Managing Counter-Transference Enactments: Encounters with a Thick-Skinned Narcissist , The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 71: 246-263

Waska, R (2011) In-Depth Review of A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference Engagement, by Steve Cooper, Psychoanalytic Psychology, 28:3, 465-70

Waska, R (2011) Working with the Unconscious Conflicts of Entitled and Demanding Patients, The New Therapist, March/April: 10-24

Waska, R (2011) Following the Footsteps of a Borderline: The “As Told to Me” Series, The New Therapist, Sept/Oct, 21-23

Waska, R (2011) Barely Here to Begin With and Not-So-Goodbyes: Keeping the Faith When Working with Turbulent Patients, American Journal of Psychotherapy, in press

Waska, R (2011) Following the Footsteps of a Borderline: The “As Told to Me” Series, The New Therapist, Nov/Dec, in press

Waska, R (2012) The Limits of Our Value and the Value of Our Limits: Looking at What We Can Offer the More Turbulent Patient and Why That May Be Enough, Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, 34:2, in press

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