ABSTRACT
People also have a published discussion, by a former patient, of his work with Wilfred Bion. H. B. Levine and G. Reed describe their view of Bion’s clinical writings this way: Bion’s writings aimed at the preparation of the mind of the analyst for his or her encounter with the patient and did not contain extensive clinical examples or specific recommendations for technique. His was what might be called a strategic/conceptual approach to understanding the analytic relationship. Bion is helping the non-psychotic aspect of the patient’s personality to think. Bion is implicitly stating his belief that such recognition of the truth of what is occurring influences the balance of power between the psychotic and the non-psychotic aspects of the personality. In Thomas Ogden’s view Bion’s confrontation of the patient is necessary to help the un-psychotic part of the personality become conscious of the psychotic part.
