£21.59 – £25.99
This book is one of a short series on the teaching of post-Kleinian psychoanalysis, with a companion volume on Teaching Meltzer.
| Editor | Meg Harris Williams |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781782201199 |
| Format | Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book |
| Page Extent | 256 |
| Publication Date | June 2015 |
| Subject Areas | Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Theory |
Wilfred Bion always emphasised that he had no desire to implant his thoughts in others but hoped instead to inspire their own process of self-knowledge or ‘becoming’, which can only take place in the conviction that the mind ‘exists’ and is not merely a figure of speech. He spoke of ‘intercessors’ and cited one of his own teachers, Socrates, on the need to distinguish phantoms from real thoughts, intelligence from wisdom.
Like psychoanalysis itself, teaching is a form of learning from experience, conducted in the context of a joint search with students or colleagues, or indeed patients. A good teacher is essentially a student, and ‘What are you when you cease to be a student of psychoanalysis?” as Bion said. Teaching the work of one’s teachers can be an especially fruitful means of internalising them, and an invitation to others.
The contributions in this book are international and varied in their approach, and have been worked out over time, so offer an opportunity for current and future teachers to experiment and analyse their own methods. Style, cultural context, personal bias and interests are all important in making the teaching situation a live and authentic one from which the participants, and likewise the reader, can select what speaks to them.
Introduction
Meg Harris Williams
1. Wilfred Bion: clinical thinker
Chris Mawson
2. A go-between
Claudio Neri
3. Identifying with existential unease
Antonello Correale
4. Teaching Bion, living life
Luiz Carlos Uchôa Junqueira, Jnr.
5. Building a ‘Bion container’
Lee Rather
6. Maintaining a relation to O
Charles W. Dithrich
7. Group learning
Angel Costantino
8. Tiger stripes and student voices
Michael Eigen
9. Dreaming the patient into being: a methodology for clinical seminars
Howard B. Levine
10. Wilfred Bion: a model kit
Leandro Stitzman
11. Teaching Bion’s teachings
R. D. Hinshelwood
12. Teaching Bion in Russia
Robert Harris
13. Bion’s adventures in a country without psychoanalysis
Igor Romanov
14. On communicating the style of living analysis
Dawn Farber
15. Teaching through clinical example
Dorothy Hamilton
16. Teaching theory in the context of child analysis: a case study
Gertraud Diem-Wille
17. The living mind – Bion’s vision
Meg Harris Williams
18. The individual in the group: on learning to work with the psychoanalytical method
Martha Harris
References
Index
Meg Harris Williams, a writer and artist, studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, and has had a lifelong psychoanalytic education, working closely with Donald Meltzer. She has written and lectured extensively in the UK and abroad on psychoanalysis and literature. She is a visiting lecturer for AGIP and at the Tavistock Centre in London, and an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California. She is married with four children and lives in Farnham, Surrey.
You must be logged in to post a review.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.