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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 6

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 6

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This volume, a useful aid to psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians, is a collection of papers containing W.R. Bion's discussion of memory and desire and attention and interpretation, providing a scientific approach to insight in psycho-analysis and groups.

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Three Papers of W.R. Bion

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Three Papers of W.R. Bion features two previously unpublished papers and one which has only previously appeared in The Complete Works of W. R. Bion (2014). Characterised by Bion’s directness, clarity and intensity, together they illustrate important aspects of his later thinking. They also show Bion using his key ideas in fresh contexts which will allow readers already familiar with his theoretical and clinical concepts to appreciate them from a new angle. The first paper, Memory and Desire, clarifies one of Bion’s most important and clinically-relevant ideas: the value of suspending elements of our memory and desire in the service of allowing openness to psychoanalytic intuition. The second, Negative Capability, was reformulated to become the final chapter of his 1970 Attention and Interpretation. The publication here of the original paper allows an interesting and rewarding three-way comparison to be made with the 1970 chapter, and Memory and Desire. The third paper, Break Up, Break Down, Break Through, was presented without notes in 1976 in Los Angeles and the transcript from the recorded talk is published here for the first time. It displays the complex interweaving of the personal and the theoretical and offers a fascinating contribution to the study of what Bion called "the turbulence that obeys no man-made ‘laws of nature’". Wilfred R. Bion’s writing continues to be read and re-read by an increasing and widening readership; the three papers presented here possess contemporary clinical relevance and each have a bearing on the underlying philosophical basis of psychoanalytical work and thinking.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 5

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 5

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This volume contains articles that focus on categorising the ideational context and emotional experience that may occur in a psychoanalytic interview and that examine the way in which an analyst's description of the analytic experience necessarily transforms it, in order to effect an interpretation.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 4

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 4

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The Complete Works of W. R. Bion is now available in a coherent and corrected format. Comprising sixteen volumes bound in green cloth, this edition has been brought together and edited by Chris Mawson with the assistance of Francesca Bion. Incorporating many corrections to previously published works, it also features previously unpublished papers.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 1

By: W.R Bion

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Volume 1

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This book is a reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of the Wilfred R. Bion's life from 1897 to 1919: eight years of childhood in India, ten years at public school in England, and three years in the army.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 10

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 10

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This volume is a collection of papers containing talks given by Bion at meetings of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society, discussions covering the main features of Bion's model of the mind and his view of the psychoanalyst at work, and an illuminating interview of Bion by Anthony G. Banet in 1976.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 9

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Volume 9

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 15

By: W.R. Bion

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Volume 15

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The previously unpublished works by Bion included in this volume com-prise four papers and ‘Further Cogitations’ from 1968 to 1969.The first of the papers has the title, ‘The Conception of Man‘. It was written originally as a chapter for a planned book of the same title, to be edited by Arthur Burton, who also edited Psychotherapy of the Psycho-ses (1961). Bion had been recommended as a possible contributor to the book by John Harvard-Watts – who had, around that time, suggested to Francesca Bion that she might persuade her husband to publish as a book the papers of Experiences in Groups and Other Papers (1961). Burton’s book was to have clarified how different thinkers conceived of Man, ”in his basic nature and humanity.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 11

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 11

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Cogitations is the name Bion gave to the occasional short notes he had begun to write in the February of 1958 in order to clarify his think-ing about the difficulties of working with psychotic patients using an unmodified psychoanalytic method – work informed by and shared with his two closest colleagues (who, like Bion, were in analysis with Melanie Klein), Hanna Segal and Herbert Rosenfeld. That clinical work formed the foundation of the clinical papers reproduced in Second Thoughts and the formulations in the four books of the 1960s: Learning from Expe-rience, Elements of Psycho-Analysis, Transformations, and Attention and Interpretation.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 7

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 7

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These lectures have been edited to suit them to the printed, rather than the spoken word. With the exception of a few minor additions the text is substantially the same as that of the transcripts taken from the original tape recordings.The questions which stimulated the material content have had to be subjected to the same selection and compression without, I hope, too much misrepresentation of the intentions of the participants. To them I would like to express my thanks; also to Frank Philips, whose arduous and spontaneous translation made the lectures in São Paulo possible. Of my wife’s contribution in changing the spoken to the printed word I cannot speak highly enough. This book has cost her many hours of skilful work.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 6

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 6

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 13

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 13

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This volume provides a detailed account of The Past Presented, one of three semi-autobiographical novels in the collection A Memoir of the Future, an attempt to cast psychoanalytic speculation in fictional form.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 16

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 16

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Complete Works of W. R. Bion

By: W.R. Bion

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The Complete Works of W. R. Bionis now available. Comprising sixteen volumes, this edition has been brought together and edited by Chris Mawson with the assistance of Francesca Bion. Incorporating many corrections to previously published works, it also features previously unpublished papers. Including a general index and editorial introductions to all the works, these volumes will be a useful and valuable aid to psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians, and all those interested in studying and making use of Bion's thinking. Bion's writings, including the previously unpublished papers and additions to his Cogitations, collected together in the Complete Works, show that the clinical thrust of Bion's work has clear lines of continuity with that of Melanie Klein, just as her work has an essential continuity with the later work of Freud. In Bion's clinical work and supervision the goal remains insightful understanding of psychic reality through a disciplined experiencing of the transference and countertransference; the setting and the method - however much Bion's terminology might suggest otherwise - remains rigorously psychoanalytic. the transference and countertransference; the setting and the method - however much Bion's terminology might suggest otherwise - remains rigorously psychoanalytic.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 12

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 12

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A figurative and free-ranging psychoanalytic novel was not something Bion would have felt free to write and – more to the point – to publish had he and his wife, Francesca, not moved to Los Angeles, which they did in 1968. Once there, Bion set about adjusting to the new culture, establishing links with the analysts who had invited him, and setting up an analytic practice. He also began work on a book, which he called The Dream, published in 1975. Two years later he added The Past Pre-sented, and in 1979 – with the addition of The Dawn of Oblivion – the novel had become a trilogy. In 1991, at the instigation of Francesca Bion, the three were finally published in one volume, with corrections, together with an enlarged version of A Key to A Memoir of the Future, which had first been published in 1981. Francesca Bion has described the Memoir asa fictionalised, dramatised presentation of a lifetime’s experiences, filled with a crowd of character; voicing the many facets of his own personality and thought; at the same time we recognise ourselves among the dramatis personae.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 14

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 14

By: W. R. Bion

This book provides an account of The Dawn of Oblivion, one of three semi-autobiographical novels in the collection A Memoir of the Future, an attempt to cast psychoanalytic speculation in fictional form. It includes an expanded version of A Key to A Memoir of the Future (1981).

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Three Papers of W.R. Bion

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 2

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 2

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This volume provides a detailed account of All My Sins Remembered, a continuation of Wilfred R. Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end. It also includes a selection of his letters to Francesca, Parthenope, Julian and Nicola, written during his last thirty years.

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The Complete Works of W.R. Bion

Volume 3

By: W. R. Bion

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Volume 3

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This volume, hand-written and contained in three hardbound notebooks, is Wilfred R. Bion's factual record of his war service in France in the Royal Tank Regiment between June 1917 and January 1919, written soon after he went up to The Queen's College, Oxford, after demobilized from the Army.

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Experiences in Groups

and Other Papers

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Experiences in Groups

and Other Papers

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A classic study which, by synthesizing the approaches of psychoanalysis and group dynamics, has added a new dimension to the understanding of group phenomena.

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Transformations

Change from Learning to Growth

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Change from Learning to Growth

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Transformations: Change from Learning to Growth is a 12-chapter text that explores the fundamentals and principles of psycho-analytic theories, transformations, and invariants. This book begins with a clinical illustration of the distinction between the patient's experience and the psycho-analyst's experience. The succeeding chapters cover the influence of verbal expression, emotional experience, state of mind, and consciousness in psycho-analysis and transformation. These topics are followed by discussion on the relationship of the "no-thing and the thing, wherein the personality that is capable of tolerating a no-thing can make use of the no-thing, and so is able to make use of the so-called thoughts. The remaining chapters describe a clinical system that would represent the chief clinical systems that can be seen to exist in the analytic situation. These chapters also examine the gap between reality and the personality, which are aspects of life with which analysts are familiar under the guise of resistance. Resistance operates because it is feared that the reality of the object is imminent. This book will be of value to psycho-analysts, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

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1483221903

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Elements of Psycho-Analysis

By: W. R. Bion

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Elements of Psycho-Analysis

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Elements of Psycho-Analysis is a 20-chapter text that describes the phenomena whose various aspects can be seen to fall within the grid categories of psycho-analysis. The elements of psycho-analysis are ideas and feelings as represented by their setting in a single grid-category. The opening chapters deal with the psychoanalytic objects, which are associations and interpretations with extensions in the domain of sense, myth, and passion. The remaining chapters are extensive discussions of the psychoanalytic phenomena, including ideas, feelings, pain, association and interpretation, conflicting pairs, and the two axes of grid. This book is directed primarily to psycho-analysts and psychiatrists.

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1483225593

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Second Thoughts

Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis

By: W. R. Bion

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Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis

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Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis covers the developments in understanding the psycho-analytic theory. This book is composed of 10 chapters that review various case histories of psycho-analysis. After a brief explanation of the "imaginary twin concept, this book goes on examining six cases of schizophrenic patients and their development of schizophrenic thought. The next chapter focuses on the differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities, which depends on a minute splitting of all that part of the personality that is concerned with awareness of internal and external reality, and the expulsion of these fragments so that they enter into or engulf their objects. This topic is followed by presentations of psycho-analytical interpretation of hallucination and arrogance. The discussion then shifts to the significance of destructive attack in the production of some symptoms met within borderline psychosis. The concluding chapters emphasize the so-called theory of thinking. This book will prove useful to psycho-analysis and psychiatrists.

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1483223698

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Attention and Interpretation

A Scientific Approach to Insight in Psycho-analysis and Groups

By: W.R. Bion

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Attention and Interpretation

A Scientific Approach to Insight in Psycho-analysis and Groups

By: W.R. Bion

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1970 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

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