ABSTRACT
Wilfred R. Bion needed space and time to express his insights at the time he was formulating his new ideas in Attention and Interpretation in the 1960s. The change that took place while Bion was still in London had major consequences, among which was Bion's move from London to the US. Grotstein, Bail and Brandschaft invited several London analysts to Los Angeles. Bion gave few explanations concerning his move. Mason recalls that Bion told him that California reminded him of the warm India to which he had never returned. In 1970Attention and Interpretation was published. This work, which Bion had written in England, was regarded as very controversial in the US. The Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute were convinced that psychoanalytic training had to be traditional and not Kleinian. The mystical metaphors, which first appeared in Transformations, reached their peak of intensity in Attention and Interpretation, the last book that he wrote in England.
