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.

Books:

Waska, R. (2002) Primitive Experiences of Loss: Working with the Paranoid-Schizoid Patient, Karnac, London

Waska, R (2004) Projective Identification: the Kleinian Interpretation, Brunner/Rutledge, London

Waska, R (2005) Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions: The Kleinian Approach to Difficult Patients, Brunner/Rutledge, London

Waska, R (2006) The Danger of Change: The Kleinian Approach with Patients who Experience Progress as Trauma, Brunner/Rutledge, London

Waska, R (2007) The Concept of Analytic Contact: A Kleinian Approach to Reaching the Hard to Reach Patient, Brunner/Rutledge, London

Waska, R (2010) Treating Severe Depressive and Persecutory Anxieties States: Using Analytic Contact to Transform the Unbearable, Karnac, London

Waska, R (2010) Love, Hate, and Knowledge: The Kleinian Method of Analytic Contact and the Future of Psychoanalysis, Karnac, London

Waska, R (2010) Selected Theoretical and Clinical Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Modern Kleinian Approach to Analytic Contact, Novoscience, New York

Waska, R (2010) The Modern Kleinian Approach to Psychoanalysis: Clinical Illustrations, Jason Aronson, New York

Waska, R (2011) Moments of Uncertainty in Psychoanalytic Practice: Interpreting Within the Matrix of Projective Identification, Counter-Transference, and Enactment, Columbia University Press

Waska, R (2011) The Total Transference and the Complete Counter-Transference: The Kleinian Psychoanalytic Approach With More Disturbed Patients, Jason Aronson

Book Chapters:

Waska, R (2009) The Death Instinct, in The Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapies, Edited by William O'Donohue and Steven Graybar, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks California, pgs. 173-194

Waska, R (2009) Do You Hate Me? Have I Hurt You? Defenses Against Growth, Separation, and Individuation that Create Interpretive Enactments, Part One: Fender Benders and the Shared Defensive Systems of Less Difficult Patients, in Handbook of Hate, Novascience Publications, in press

Waska, R (2009) Do You Hate Me? Have I Hurt You? Defenses Against Growth, Separation, and Individuation that Create Interpretive Enactments, Part Two: Pit Stops and the Shared Defensive Systems of More Difficult Patients, in Handbook of Hate, Novascience Publications, in press