My name is Björn Salomonsson and I am an M.D., psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and associate professor at the Unit of Reproductive Health, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Emotional problems occur at any age in life. I work with children and adults in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. My special focus is on emotional issues that tend to emerge in future and new parents and their babies. I am also involved in clinical research in this field. If you are interested in…
- Psychoanalysis with adults and children
- Psychological problems with future and new parents, and their babies
- Research on psychotherapy during the perinatal period
…then you are warmly welcome to read further on!
BOOKS
RELEASED 2019: WORKING WITH FATHERS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC-PARENT_INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY
This book is edited by Tessa Baradon, a well-kown clinician and writer in the field of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy (PIP). It brings together experienced clinicians to discuss fathers’ participation in PIP treatments since today, the father’s role, both in child development and therapy, is becoming more important to both researchers and clinicians. In the book, I’ve contributed with two chapters, “Three themes about fathers in parent-infant psychotherapy” and “Freud on fathers: who cares?”
”Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infants. Clinical and theoretical Perspectives”
The book develops a method combining nurse supervision and therapeutic consultations which has lowered the thresholds for parents to come and talk with a therapist. The brief consultations concern pregnant women, mother and baby, husband and wife, toddler and parent. The theoretical framework is psychoanalytic, but the mode of work is eclectic and adapted to the family’s situation and its members’ motivation. This book details such work, which can be applied globally; perinatal psychotherapy integrated with ordinary medical health care.
”[When reading the book] one has the impression of being in a multidisciplinary team meeting where clinical findings, research and different treatment approaches are being presented and critically discussed with the patients’ needs very much in mind. It evidences Salomonsson’s impressive capacity to communicate complex ideas in an accessible way” (Shirley Hiscock, British Psychoanalytic Council)
PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY WITH INFANTS AND PARENTS: PRACTICE, THEORY AND RESULTS
provides a guide to work with distressed babies and unhappy parents, a group often in need of urgent help.
Such treatment is receiving increased attention. The book explores how to work with parents (especially the mother), and how major psychoanalytic concepts can be applied to these therapies. Extensive practice-based examples are referred as well as research on the efficacy of this practice.
”This book is not only fascinating. It also has the courage to open up a new and original thread of research in psychoanalysis; the exploration of the ”basic grammar” of the baby worries. No child is too young to be listened to, understood and if necessary addressed.”
Nino Ferro – President, Italian Psychoanalytic Society
DIALOGUES WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS portrays what children look like “inside”. It draws on case material presented in the form of letters between the child and the therapist. Only the final chapter contains theoretical commentaries on the child’s behaviour, the analyst’s technique and the background to the disorder. The book is written in an playful and accessible style, with the hope of casting a fresh light on such work for parents, teachers, and therapists.
“We can feel the mystery of children’s experiences, and yet how much they can make sense with patient, respectful and creative attention. I warmly recommend this book to interested parents, young people and to professionals who work with them. Like me, they may find it hard to put down!”
Mary Target Ph.D. – Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London.
A QUOI PENSENT LES ENFANTS is a French translation of “Dialogues…”
Merci donc [à Björn et Majlis Salomonsson] de nous aider, nous adultes, professionnels ou non de l’enfance, à entrer dans cette culture et à nous y retrouver. Cela est salutaire pour chacun d’entre nous, mais salutaire aussi pour les enfants que nous croisons, les nôtres ou ceux que nous avons à aider ou à soigner, car tout enfant a besoin d’être compris même s’il a peur d’être deviné, et c’est tout le tact de Björn et de Majlis qui leur permet de comprendre sans être intrusifs.
Bernard Golse
Chef de service de psychiatrie infantile à l’Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades (Paris)
Professeur de psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent à l’université Paris Descartes
TERAPIA PSICOANALITICA CON BAMBINI E GENITORI
An Italian translation.
PSICOTERAPIA PSICOANALITICA 
COM CRIANÇAS PEQUENAS E PAIS
A Portuguese translation.
TÈRAPIA PSÍCOANALITICA AMB BEBÈS I PARES: PRÀCTICA, TEORIA I RESULTATS
A Catalan translation.