{"product_id":"metapsychological-perspectives-on-psychic-survival-integration-of-traumatic-helplessness-in-psychoanalysis-9780815384090","title":"Metapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival: Integration of Traumatic Helplessness in Psychoanalysis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Simo Salonen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival\u003c\/em\u003e explores the integration of traumatic helplessness in the course of psychoanalytic treatment. Based on the author's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimo Salonen links psychic representation of the elementary drive phenomena and metaphorical thinking to \u003ci\u003eprimary identification \u003c\/i\u003eunderstood 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 \u003ci\u003eprimal representative matrix\u003c\/i\u003e, referring to a resource of primary narcissism that an individual has been endowed with, carrying vital meanings. Also explored is the crucial \u003ci\u003ework of mourning\u003c\/i\u003e, as the result of which the impoverished ego may recover its primary narcissistic resources. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing 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. \u003cem\u003eMetapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival \u003c\/em\u003ewill be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45238811754647,"sku":"9780815384090","price":3154.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780815384090.webp?v=1769220831","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/metapsychological-perspectives-on-psychic-survival-integration-of-traumatic-helplessness-in-psychoanalysis-9780815384090","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}