Michael Robbins has practiced psychoanalysis for four decades. He has held professorships on the faculties of the Harvard and UCSF medical schools and is currently a member of the Boston and International Psychoanalytic Societies. He lives and practices in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The Primordial Mind draws on the author's clinical experience as a psychoanalyst to construct an interdisciplinary model for understanding primordial mental activity in relation to thought in everyday life.

Preface. The Big Picture. Western Models of Primordial Mind: Freud and Klein. Western Models of Primordial Mind II: Jung, Bion, Matte-Blanco. Western Models of Primordial Mind III: Piaget, Werner, Attachment Theory and Implicit Knowledge. Primordial Mental Activity. Dreaming. The Primordial Mind in Everyday Life. The Relationship Between Mental Processes in Spiritual Cultures. The Mind of a Shaman. Shamanism and Psychosis. Special Sensitivity: Synesthesia and Lucid Dreaming. Creativity. Psychosis. Thoughtful Reflections of Psychotic Persons. Language, Thought and Communication. Neuroscience of Primordial Mind. Analogy and Transformation in Human Systems. Conclusion.