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    Four Discussions with W. R. Bion

    Author: Wilfred R. Bion

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    These four discussions held by Wilfred Bion with a small group of psychiatrists and psychotherapists in Los Angeles in 1976 cover in a very accessible way the main features of Bion’s model of the mind and his view of the psychoanalyst at work. This new 2019 edition also includes an introduction to Bion’s model of the mind and glossary by Meg Harris Williams.

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    Wilfred R. Bion

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    9781912567607

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    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    112

    Publication Date

    January 2019

    Subject Areas

    Bionian Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis

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    These four discussions held by Wilfred Bion with a small group of psychiatrists and psychotherapists in Los Angeles in 1976 were first published in 1978, edited by Francesca Bion. Despite its brevity the book covers in a very accessible way the main features of Bion’s model of the mind and his view of the psychoanalyst at work, and therefore provides a useful introduction to his thinking, whilst the vitality of the exchanges demonstrates the creation and operation of a genuine ‘work group’. Topics touched upon include: emotional turbulence, prenatal life, nonverbal communication, the aesthetic experience of truth, transformations in O, the vertices of knowledge, and the psychoanalytic work-group. This edition includes an introduction and glossary by Meg Harris Williams.

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    Contents

    About the author

    Foreword
    Adrian Williams

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    APPENDIX: An introduction to Bion’s model of the mind
    Meg Harris Williams

    Glossary
    Index

    About the Author

    About the Author

    Wilfred R. Bion (1897–1979) was born in India and first came to England at the age of eight to receive his schooling. During the First World War he served in France as a tank commander and was awarded the DSO and the Legion of Honour. After reading history at Queen’s College, Oxford, he studied medicine at University College London, before a growing interest in psychoanalysis led him to undergo training analysis with John Rickman and, later, Melanie Klein. During the 1940s his attention was directed to the study of group processes. Abandoning his work in this field in favor of psychoanalytic practice, he subsequently rose to the position of Director of the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis (1956–62) and President of the British Psychoanalytical Society (1962–65). From 1968 he worked in Los Angeles, returning to England two months before his death in 1979.

    A pioneer in group dynamics, he was associated with the ‘Tavistock group’, the group of pioneering psychologists that founded the Tavistock Institute in 1946 on the basis of their shared wartime experiences. He later wrote the influential Experiences in Groups, an important guide for the group psychotherapy and encounter group movements beginning in the 1960s, and which quickly became a touchstone work for applications of group theory in a wide variety of fields. Bion’s training included an analysis with Melanie Klein following World War II. He was a leading member in the Kleinian school while in London, but his theories, which were always based in the phenomena of the analytic encounter, eventually revealed radical departures from both Kleinian and Freudian theory. While Bion is most well known outside of the psychoanalytic community for his work on group dynamics, the psychoanalytic conversation that explores his work is concerned with his theory of thinking and his model of the development of a capacity for thought.

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