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    Bion’s Vertices: On Truth and Lies

    Editor: Tomasz Fortuna

    £25.19 – £36.99

    A stellar international line-up of Bionian scholars examine the notions of truth and lies from a variety of perspectives. They explore the importance of truth and lies within an individual’s emotional development and psychic growth and illuminate the contemporary clinical, theoretical, and cultural relevance of Bion’s thinking.

    Due to be published in December 2025.

    Editor

    Tomasz Fortuna

    ISBN

    9781800132115

    Format

    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    392

    Publication Date

    December 2025

    Subject Areas

    Bionian Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis

    Series

    Contemporary Bion

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    Bion’s Vertices: On Truth and Lies is the inaugural book of the Contemporary Bion series. It raises many key questions, such as: What is the place of truth and lies in psychoanalytic discourse? What are the consequences in terms of collusion and communication? How can a ‘lie’ carry a meaning? The book features penetrating insights from Nicola Abel-Hirsch, Joseph Aguayo, David Bell, Avner Bergstein, Ronald Britton, Robert Caper, Roosevelt Cassorla, Maxine Dennis, Judy K. Eekhoff, Denis Flynn, Tomasz Fortuna, Antònia Grimalt, Alberto Hahn, R. D. Hinshelwood, Monica Horovitz, Dimitris J. Jackson, Paulo Cesar Sandler, Carlos Tabbia, and Margot Waddell. Their inspiration and starting point is Bion and his work but the vertices are dynamic and involve free expression of their personal perspectives, communication styles, and approaches, including Freudian, Kleinian, mathematical, philosophical, scientific, and poetic.

    Their chapters are divided into three parts, which investigate the truth/lie domain, emotional change and growth, and creativity in relation to truth and lies. The wide-ranging discussions include chapters on aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought, the protective function of lying, misunderstandings, chaos, the analyst’s mind, knowledge, representation, perversions, propaganda, and racialisation in relational context. These powerful contributions are essential reading for practising clinicians, academics, and students.

    About the editor

    About the editor

    Dr Tomasz Fortuna is a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and a founding member of the Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. He worked as a psychiatrist in the NHS for sixteen years and is now at the Portman Clinic and in private psychoanalytic practice. He teaches and supervises at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics, Institute of Psychoanalysis, University College London, and abroad, and was a visiting professor in psychoanalysis at the psychiatry department of University Putra Malaysia. He was a member of the Bion in Marrakech seminar and taught Klein and Bion in the UK, China, and South Korean. His professional interests include the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts, and the understanding of severe emotional disturbance and criminal behaviour. He has published several articles and chapters, co-authored with R. D. Hinshelwood, Melanie Klein: The Basics (Routledge, 2017) and co-edited with Ignes Sode, Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis, by Priscilla Roth (Routledge, 2025).

    Contents

    Contents

    Acknowledgements 

    About the editor and contributors 

    Series editor’s preface by Tomasz Fortuna 

    Foreword by Joseph Aguayo 

    Introduction by Tomasz Fortuna 

     

    Part I – Enquiry into the truth/lie domain

    1. “The forms of things unknown”: Aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought
    Margot Waddell

    2. Knowledge and its pretenders: Bion’s contribution to knowledge and thought
    David Bell

    3. Representation and truth
    R. D. Hinshelwood

    4. Bion’s two principles of mental functioning
    Robert Caper

    5. A certain praise for lying
    Roosevelt Cassorla

     

    Part II – Change, growth, creativity, and their opposites

    6. Chaos: Destruction or creation?
    Ronald Britton

    7. Reaching the ineffable: On emotion, intuition, and creativity in psychoanalytic encounter
    Tomasz Fortuna

    8. Catastrophic change: Container–contained, the shape of what we experience … and beyond
    Denis Flynn

    9. Bion: Lies and perversion of truth
    Dimitris J. Jackson

    10. Thinking about truth, lies, and propaganda
    Antònia Grimalt

     

    Part III – Clinical conversations

    11. “Truth shall spring out of the earth …”: The analyst as gatherer of sense impressions
    Avner Bergstein

    12. What might be in so close that as psychoanalysts we miss it?
    Nicola Abel-Hirsch

    13. The analyst’s state of mind and growth in the psychoanalytical process
    Alberto Hahn

    14. A story that could never be told: Transference and truth
    Monica Horovitz

    15. Truth and lies: The perversion of truth and the disruption of passion
    Judy K. Eekhoff

    16. The psychoanalyst’s toolbox: An apprentice in Bion’s and Meltzer’s ateliers
    Carlos Tabbia

     

    Afterword

    Paulo Cesar Sandler

    Index

     

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