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.

Paper Presentations

Waska, R. (1993) Psychic Structure and Countertransference, California Psychological Association, San Francisco, California
Waska, R. (1996) Thoughts on Mrs. Klein, Colloquium of Bay Area Psychoanalytic Candidates, San Francisco, California
Waska, R. (1996) The Limits of the Analytic Relationship as Defined by Projective Identication, Fall Meeting, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Arizona
Waska, R. (1997) Boundaries in the Analytic Process: Transformations in Analysis, Annual Hildegard Berliner Lecture, The San Francisco Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Waska, R. (1997) Schizoid Anxiety, the Manic Defense, and the Depressive Position, Winter Meeting, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York.
Waska, R. (1998) Hate, Dislike, and Disinterest, Spring Meeting, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, Canada.
Waska, R. (1998) Oral Deprivation, Envy, and the Sadistic Aspects of the Ego, Fall Meeting, American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis, San Francisco, California
Waska, R. (1999) Loss, Introjection, and Projective Identification, Spring Meeting, American Psychoanalytic Association, Washington, DC.
Waska, R (2005) Real Patients, Real Analysts: The Reality of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Practice, Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Marin County, California
Waska, R (2008) When the Suffering Never Ends, EBOR Conference on Bion and Catastrophic Change, Seattle, Washington
Waska, R (2008) Counter-Transference and Analytic Contact, International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, 19th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Boston, Mass
Waska, R (2009) Counter-Transference: Its Value in the Kleinian Approach, San Francisco CAMFT, San Francisco, California
Waska, R (2009) Controlling the Object, Division 39 Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada