ALANEN, YRJÖ OLAVI:
THE MOTHERS OF SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS. A STUDY OF THE PERSONALITY AND THE MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIP OF 100 MOTHERS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE FACTORS IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA, IN COMPARISON WITH HEREDITY.
Helsinki, 1958.
8vo. 362 pp.
¶ First edition. Doctoral thesis.
Includes bibliography (pp. 297-310), and appendix (tabular summaries of the cases studied and a tabular presentation of the Rorschach scores of the mothers) (pp. 311-61).
Also published as Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica Scandinavica, suppl. 124.
"Yrjö Alanen is one of the professionals who have helped shape the history of schizophrenia, its understanding and its global, flexible approach adapted to the needs of patients.
Professor of Psychiatry (Emeritus) Yrjö Olavi Alanen was born Jan. 31, 1927 in Kurikka, Finland. He got his M.D. degree in the University of Helsinki in 1952 and did his specialist training in psychiatry and neurology in the Psychiatric University Hospital in Helsinki from 1954 to 1957. He was appointed to senior level clinical positions in this hospital from 1958 to 1968, after which he was appointed Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Turku, Finland. This position also included the chairmanship of the Department of Psychiatry and clinical work as Medical Director of the university hospital The Clinic of Psychiatry of Turku. He retired in 1990, however, since then he has continued his professional work as a psychotherapist and teacher, dedicating more time than previously to writing and editing books in his field.
Alanen had already begun his personal psychoanalysis in 1955 and was one of the first candidates for psychoanalytic training after IPA training became possible in Finland in 1965. He became a member of the Finnish Psychoanalytic Association in 1969. His main interests have been the psychodynamic study of schizophrenic psychoses and individual and family psychotherapy of schizophrenic psychoses. He instigated the first regular family therapy training in Finland in 1979 and acted as a member of the first trainer group in family therapy. This training soon became very popular and more extensive in different parts of Finland because, among other things, of its multi-professional quality. Family therapy training was also later established at an advanced special level. In the 1990s Alanen joined his closest working pupils and co-workers Viljo Räkköläinen and Jukka Aaltonen in the establishment of the advanced special level training program in psychodynamic individual therapy of seriously disordered patients.
Among other things, Alanen's early studies dealt with family environments and dynamics of schizophrenic patients, leading to the monographs The Mothers of Schizophrenic Patients, 1958; and (together with co-workers) Family in the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenic and Neurotic Disorders, 1966. These studies already included features of integrated views, typical to Alanen's later theoretical and clinical ways of thought. In 1959-60 he was Research Associate in Yale University Dept. of Psychiatry in New Haven, Conn., U.S.A., working in Theodor Lidz's team. In 1979 he received the seventeenth annual Stanley R. Dean Research Award, given by The American College of Psychiatrists and The Fund for the Behavioral Sciences in recognition of basic research accomplishment in the behavioural sciences contributing to our understanding of schizophrenia"(Manuel González de Chávez, The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and other Psychoses, ISPS).
Printed wrappers, spine repaired.
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