ABSTRACT

Bion and Intuition in the Clinical Setting focuses on Bion’s investigation of the intuitive approach to clinical data and lays out how Bion’s method encouraged constant effort by the analysts to relinquish its reliance on sensory and conceptual-verbal faculties to make room for intuition.

Based on the work of the biannual Bion conference, this book includes contributions from the most eminent voices on Bion’s work. Spanning topics such as the primordial mind, intuitive comprehension and desire, the contributors in this volume illustrate how they incorporate the concept of intuition in their own clinical developments. Each chapter examines different elements of how Bion’s research approaches the difficulties faced by analysts in the approach and discrimination of primitive emotional levels in the patient-analyst communication.

This book will be of key interest to analysts and analytic therapists of all schools and is an essential resource for those that follow the work of Bion.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|11 pages

Negation as a method for intuiting psychoanalytic discoveries

Bion's turning point in “notes on memory and desire”

chapter Chapter 2|12 pages

The hidden side of the moon

Understanding/misunderstanding. Bion, no memory, no desire

chapter Chapter 3|10 pages

Group construction of intuition

Fusionality and tenderness

chapter Chapter 4|11 pages

Intuition, memory and desire

chapter Chapter 5|12 pages

Intuition

Privileged tool to access the primordial mind

chapter Chapter 7|9 pages

Intuition and analyst language

A language of emotion

chapter Chapter 9|10 pages

Continuing to disturb the sleep of the world

Bion's intuitions on dreaming and reverie

chapter Chapter 10|7 pages

Intuition and texture in reverie

chapter Chapter 11|10 pages

Intuition

A place for intuition?

chapter Chapter 12|7 pages

Infant observation with the Esther Bick method

A privileged experience for the development of intuition

chapter Chapter 13|12 pages

Interpretation and intuition

Transmission of scientific contents and emotional contexts in psychotic fields