Björn Salomonsson, MD, is a psychiatrist and training and child psychoanalyst in Stockholm. His research at the Karolinska Institute concerns parent--infant psychoanalytic treatment and psychodynamic consultations at Child Health Centres, as well as the development of clinical practice and theory of such treatments. He is an internationally renowned lecturer on these and other topics in the field of psychoanalytic therapy.

List of clinical cases Preface CLINIC: CONSULTATIONS AND THERAPIES AT A CHILD HEALTH CENTRE Chapter 1. In the beginning Chapter 2. The psychology of pregnancy Chapter 3. Circumventing primary maternal preoccupation Chapter 4. Delivery trauma and the maternal introject Chapter 5. Therapeutic technique in perinatal consultations Chapter 6. The external frame at the Child Health Centre Chapter 7 Supervising nurses at the Child Health Centre Chapter 8. The internal frame at the Child Health Centre Chapter 9. From panic to pleasure. Therapy with Debbie and Mae Chapter 10. Parent¿infant psychotherapy: a review of clinical methods Chapter 11. Parent¿infant psychotherapy: RCTs and follow-up studies Chapter 12: Brief interventions with parental couples ¿ I Chapter 13: Brief interventions with parental couples ¿ II Chapter 14. Extending the field to therapy with toddlers and parents THEORY: THE MIND OF THE BABY ¿ CONTINUED INVESTIGATIONS Chapter 15. A baby¿s mind: empirical observation versus speculative theorizing Chapter 16. Naming the nameless: on anxiety in babies ¿ I: Freud Chapter 17. Naming the nameless: on anxiety in babies ¿ II: after Freud Chapter 18. Babies and their defences Chapter 19. Metaphors in parent¿infant therapy Chapter 20. A vision for the future