ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to convey some of the ways in which Dr. Wilfred Ruprecht Bion's work as raising questions and throwing light upon problems of organizing training in psychoanalytical method and attitudes. One can hope to promote a relationship between fellow workers, students and teachers which might be described by Bion as symbiotic for some, and for the rest at least commensal: co-existent if not mutually profitable. A group or training is kept alive or ossifies by virtue of the quality of the new members it recruits. Dr. Bion's studies of group behaviour have continued to be the germinal impulse for the recurrent group relations conferences held by the Tavistock, an impetus to institutional groups to study themselves and their behaviour to one another. The International Psycho-analytical Association is the Establishment within which the work of psycho-analytic geniuses, rare as always, but including surely Bion, must be preserved and utilized.
