Salonen Metapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival

Integration of Traumatic Helplessness in Psychoanalysis
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-20490-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

Metapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival explores the integration of traumatic helplessness in the course of psychoanalytic treatment. Based on the author’s many years of experience of working with the psychotic and severely traumatised patients, this book offers guidelines to approach extreme psychic trauma in the therapeutic setting.

Simo Salonen links psychic representation of the elementary drive phenomena, and metaphorical thinking to primary identification understood as a mode of object finding. The collapse of this connection signifies a radical psychic trauma, the integration of which into the temporal continuity of an individual’s life is an essential task for psychoanalysis. Another key element of this book is Salonen’s notion of the primal representative matrix, referring to a resource of primary narcissism that an individual has been endowed with, carrying vital meanings. Also explored is the crucial work of mourning, as the result of which the impoverished ego may recover its primary narcissistic resources.

Using insights from numerous case studies, Salonen offers a new way of understanding severe trauma, which can be used to advance both psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. Metapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salonen, Simo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Preface; 1. Outlining a Conceptual Space: An Introduction 2. On the Metapsychology of Schizophrenia 3. Facing Reality: Castration Anxiety Reconsidered 4. The Restitution of Primary Identification in Psychoanalysis 5. The Reconstruction of Psychic Trauma 6. The Recovery of Affect and Structural Conflict 7. Understanding Psychotic Disorder 8. The Vulnerable Core: The Unconscious Wish Reconsidered 9. On Destructive Drive Phenomena: A Study of Human Aggression 10. The Body and the Sense of Reality 11. The Absent Father in the Transference: A Case Study of Primary Identification and Psychic Survival 12. On the Metapsychology of Psychic Survival 13. Reconciliation with the Past

Über Autor(innen)

Simo Salonen, MD, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Finnish Psychoanalytical Society and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the University of Turku, Finland.