Dr. Waska has been providing Individual and Couples Therapy since 1985 in the Bay Area. Openings are available for new patients in either Individual or Couples therapy. Professional office locations are in San Rafael and in the Laurel Heights area of San Francisco. Please call 415-883-4235 to schedule an appointment.

Courses Taught

Interpretation, Projective Identification, and the Analytic Situation, Extension Division of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Fall 1998
Character Disorders: Theory and Treatment, Community Institute for Psychotherapy, Fall 1998
The Use of Kleinian Psychoanalytic Technique in Weekly Psychotherapy, Extension Divison of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Spring 1999
Freudian/Kleinian Character Analysis: Clinical and Theoretical Approaches:, Community Institute for Psychotherapy, Spring 2000
A Weekend with Robert Waska/ The Danger of Change, Spring 2008, Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, Spring 2008
Is It Psychoanalytic: A Discussion of Clinical Matters, Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Summer 2008
Interpretive Acting Out: Learning from Enactments, Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Fall 2008
Borderline Pathology: The Clinical Struggle, Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Fall 2008
Projective Identification in Everyday Life and In the Clinical Situation
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 1/10/09
Locating the Transference: Interpersonal, Interactional, and Intrapsychic
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 2/7/09
Psychoanalytic Couples Therapy: Unconscious Conflicts and Unconscious Phantasy
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 3/14/09
Controlling the Object: Kleinian Theory and Technique
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 4/25/09
Difficult Patients: The Kleinian Approach with Hard to Reach Cases – Part One
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 516/09
Difficult Patients: The Kleinian Approach with Hard to Reach Cases – Part Two
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 6/13/09
Projective Identification:  An Inescapable and Valuable Aspect of Psychoanalytic Treatment, Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 7/11/09
Using the Counter-Transference
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 8/8/09
The Retreat from Knowledge: Moments of Confusion in Psychoanalytic Treatment
Working with Neurotic Patients
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 10/10/09
Working with Borderline Patients
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 11/14/09
Working with Psychotic Patients
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 12/12/09
Emotional Foxholes/Beyond the Borderline
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 1/9/10
Love, Hate, and Knowledge
Community Institute for Psychotherapy, 2/13/10