ABSTRACT
This book provides a clear, comprehensive, and sequential account of Bion's thinking, his life experience and technical innovations, saturated with quotes from his diaries and theoretical papers. It offers clinical vignettes to illuminate salient aspects of the therapeutic encounter.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|63 pages
Personal, Historical
part II|37 pages
Previously Unpublished Supervisions
part III|79 pages
Clinical/Theoretical: One
part IV|87 pages
Clinical/Theoretical: Two
chapter Fourteen|12 pages
Changes in technique and in the theory of technique in a post-Bion field model
part V|22 pages
A Clinical Exchange
part VI|33 pages
Sense, Myth, and Passion
chapter Twenty-One|10 pages
Sense, sensible, sense-able: the bodily but immaterial dimension of psychoanalytic elements
part VII|57 pages
Late Papers and Basic Concepts
chapter Twenty-Five|7 pages
On Bion’s text “Emotional turbulence”: a focus on experience and the unknown
part VIII|60 pages
Groups
chapter Thirty-One|13 pages
Containing primitive emotional states: approaching Bion’s later perspectives on groups
part IX|56 pages
Aesthetics
