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""In this book, Simo Salonen, the distinguished Finnish psychoanalyst, examines the infant’s mind and expands theoretical considerations about an individual’s psychic survival. Remarkable case presentations illustrate Salonen’s metapsychological considerations. His decades long observations on primary identification, psychic trauma, repetition compulsion, mourning, the vulnerability of psychotic individuals, castration anxiety, solving intrapsychic conflict and structural transformation of an individual mind are very informative for all mental health professionals.""-Vamık D. Volkan, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia and the author of□ Would-Be Wife Killer: A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualized Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental Steps. ""Dedicated to his severely distraught patients – they suffered from long-term psychosis, psychosomatic conditions, or severe depression – as well as to Freudian metapsychology, Simo Salonen has compiled a breath-taking review of his work as psychoanalyst and psychiatrist during the last 50 years. In success and failure, he helped his patients re-ignite a life-preserving and vitalising 'primal representative matrix.' His book is a unique treatise on Freud’s hypothesis of a primary identification, the earliest unconscious impact on the infant of mother or father, or of mother and father. Salonen’s book is a labour of love. It is recommended reading for any psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically interested other persons.""-David Titelman, Ph.D., National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

In this book, Simo Salonen, the distinguished Finnish psychoanalyst, examines the infant's mind and expands theoretical considerations about an individual's psychic survival. Remarkable case presentations illustrate Salonen's metapsychological considerations. His decades long observations on primary identification, psychic trauma, repetition compulsion, mourning, the vulnerability of psychotic individuals, castration anxiety, solving intrapsychic conflict and structural transformation of an individual mind are very informative for all mental health professionals. -Vamik D. Volkan, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia and the author of Would-Be Wife Killer: A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualized Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental Steps. Dedicated to his severely distraught patients - they suffered from long-term psychosis, psychosomatic conditions, or severe depression - as well as to Freudian metapsychology, Simo Salonen has compiled a breath-taking review of his work as psychoanalyst and psychiatrist during the last 50 years. In success and failure, he helped his patients re-ignite a life-preserving and vitalising 'primal representative matrix.' His book is a unique treatise on Freud's hypothesis of a primary identification, the earliest unconscious impact on the infant of mother or father, or of mother and father. Salonen's book is a labour of love. It is recommended reading for any psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically interested other persons. -David Titelman, Ph.D., National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

In this book, Simo Salonen, the distinguished Finnish psychoanalyst, examines the infant's mind and expands theoretical considerations about an individual's psychic survival. Remarkable case presentations illustrate Salonen's metapsychological considerations. His decades long observations on primary identification, psychic trauma, repetition compulsion, mourning, the vulnerability of psychotic individuals, castration anxiety, solving intrapsychic conflict and structural transformation of an individual mind are very informative for all mental health professionals. -Vamik D. Volkan, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia and the author of Would-Be Wife Killer: A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualized Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental Steps. Dedicated to his severely distraught patients - they suffered from long-term psychosis, psychosomatic conditions, or severe depression - as well as to Freudian metapsychology, Simo Salonen has compiled a breath-taking review of his work as psychoanalyst and psychiatrist during the last 50 years. In success and failure, he helped his patients re-ignite a life-preserving and vitalising 'primal representative matrix.' His book is a unique treatise on Freud's hypothesis of a primary identification, the earliest unconscious impact on the infant of mother or father, or of mother and father. Salonen's book is a labour of love. It is recommended reading for any psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically interested other persons. -David Titelman, Ph.D., National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

In this book, Simo Salonen, the distinguished Finnish psychoanalyst, examines the infant's mind and expands theoretical considerations about an individual's psychic survival. Remarkable case presentations illustrate Salonen's metapsychological considerations. His decades long observations on primary identification, psychic trauma, repetition compulsion, mourning, the vulnerability of psychotic individuals, castration anxiety, solving intrapsychic conflict and structural transformation of an individual mind are very informative for all mental health professionals. -Vamik D. Volkan, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia and the author of Would-Be Wife Killer: A Clinical Study of Primitive Mental Functions, Actualized Unconscious Fantasies, Satellite States, and Developmental Steps. Dedicated to his severely distraught patients - they suffered from long-term psychosis, psychosomatic conditions, or severe depression - as well as to Freudian metapsychology, Simo Salonen has compiled a breath-taking review of his work as psychoanalyst and psychiatrist during the last 50 years. In success and failure, he helped his patients re-ignite a life-preserving and vitalising 'primal representative matrix.' His book is a unique treatise on Freud's hypothesis of a primary identification, the earliest unconscious impact on the infant of mother or father, or of mother and father. Salonen's book is a labour of love. It is recommended reading for any psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically interested other persons. -David Titelman, Ph.D., National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

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

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