Metapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival: Integration of Traumatic Helplessness in Psychoanalysis [Hardcover]

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

Metapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival explores the integration of traumatic helplessness in the course of psychoanalytic treatment. Based on the authors many years of experience of working with 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