2. Slippery When Wet. The Imperfect Art of Interpretation

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. SECTION 1. INTERPRETIVE ACTING OUT
7. 1. Containing, Translating, and Interpretive Acting Out. The Quest for Therapeutic Balance 11
8. 2. Slippery When Wet. The Imperfect Art of Interpretation 33
9. 3. Interpretive Acting Out. Unavoidable and Sometimes Useful 54
10. 4. Enactments, Interactions, and Interpretations 77
11. SECTION 2. DIFFICULT AND JAGGED. IMPERFECT CLINICAL SITUATIONS
12. 5. Kleinian Couple’s Treatment. A Complicated Case 99
13. 6. Failures, Successes, and Question Marks 122
14. SECTION 3. THE EMOTIONAL FOXHOLE
15. 7. Different Ways of Controlling the Object 147
16. 8. Taming, Restoring, and Rebuilding, or Sealing Off, Burying, and Eliminating the Object. Two Ways of Controlling the Other 162
17. 9. Two Varieties of Psychic Retreat. The Struggle with Combined Paranoid and Depressive Conflicts 184
18. 10. Trapped in an Emotional Foxhole. Coping with Paranoid and Depressive Conflicts 205
19. Discussion 223
20. References 233
21. Index 239