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Projective Identification, Countertransference, and the Struggle for Understanding Over Acting Out
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    Projective Identification, Countertransference, and the Struggle for Understanding Over Acting Out

    An essay by Robert T. Waska.

    Waska has worked some of this material into his introductory book on Projective Identification.

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