The Primordial Mind draws on the authora (TM)s clinical experience as a psychoanalyst to construct an interdisciplinary model for understanding primordial mental activity in relation to thought in everyday life. Providing a critical review of theorists such as Freud, Jung, Klein, Bion and Piaget this book offers a detailed discussion of topics including: * dreaming and creativity * shamanism * the relationship between mental processes in spiritual cultures * the psychoses and language. This book challenges existing models of primordial mind and the inherent limitations of theories derived from western thought, such as those which dismiss members of spiritual cultures as immature or primitive and which