Veikko Tehke. Psyche and its treatment: a psychoanalytic approach This monograph describes both the general psychoanalytic theory of the development of the human psyche, and the theory of the nature and elements of psychoanalytic understanding, and the application of these two theories to the psychoanalytic treatment of patients representing psychotic, borderline and neurotic levels of psychopathology. The book by the Finnish psychoanalyst is recognized by experts as the best reflection of Western psychoanalysis to date. The book is addressed to both professional psychologists and all those who are interested in this topic. Veikko Tahka. MIND AND ITS TREATMENT: A Psychoanalytic Approach Veikko Tahke's Mind and Its Treatment is the result of more than forty years of scientific experience as a Finnish psychoanalyst, researcher, clinician and teacher - in fact, not one, but rather two books. First, this is a book about mental development, the dynamic mental evolutionary process from its earliest beginnings to the achievement of personal autonomy and emancipation, that is, adulthood. With all the possibilities along the way for inadequate, impaired and deviant development or underdevelopment. About the emergence of many mental disorders of the psychopathological spectrum, clearly psychotic, variously borderline and typically neurotic. And secondly, this book is about treatment, psychoanalytic therapy for this many ailments.