Names, thoughts, and lies: the relevance of Bion’s later writing for understanding experiences in groups

“Names, Thoughts, and Lies” was originally written to inaugurate a series of invited public seminars mounted by The Grubb Institute in 1989. The intention of the seminars was to review the field of “group relations” and its continuing relevance for understanding organizational behaviour. The paper set out to consider Wilfred Bion’s contribution to this field in the light of his later psychoanalytic preoccupations and the ways in which these both complemented and potentially extended the insights of his Experiences in Groups.