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Learning From Experience

By: Wilfred R Bion

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Wilfred R. Bion was one of the foremost psychoanalysts of his generation, whose work has shaped and enriched psychoanalysis and psychotherapy indelibly. Renowned for some highly original and sometimes cryptic ideas, such as the alpha function and theory of the grid, Learning from Experience is arguably his most important and enduring work. Bion brings knowledge into the psychoanalytic spotlight. What forces, he asks, interfere with knowledge? Crucially, Bion doesn't mean knowing only facts, but the lifelong process of understanding and coming to know things that is a consequence of the development of knowledge. However, Learning From Experience is perhaps best-known for its emphasis on the way emotion and knowledge are interwoven. Bion links the emotional capacity to develop and know to the capacity to tolerate frustration: if we can hold ourselves in check whilst we endure frustration, then we can come to know things. A remarkable and brilliant work by a fascinating psychoanalyst and thinker, Learning From Experience continues to inspire psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Robert Hinshelwood.

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1000955451

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Bion in Buenos Aires

Seminars, Case Presentation and Supervision

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Seminars, Case Presentation and Supervision

By: Wilfred R. Bion

These newly discovered clinical seminars of Wilfred Bion, which include supervisions, personal case presentations, and lectures on psychoanalytic theory, represent his initial foray into many years of work that have inspired South American analysts for nearly a half a century.The clinical and theoretical work of Bion arguably ranks rather high in the current psychoanalytic firmament-as national and international conferences convene regularly to continue discussing the contemporary relevance of his work. His work has served as a source of inspiration to contemporary psychoanalysts in all three regions of the International Psychoanalytical Assocation-Ronald Britton, Antonino Ferro, Giuseppe Civitarese, Thomas Ogden, James Grotstein, and Paolo Sandler, just to name a few. These newly discovered clinical seminars from work Bion conducted in Buenos Aires in 1968 help us to further fill out the picture of his versatile gifts. In these seminars, we find lectures on Bion's elaborations on his epistemological research-still on-going in the 1960s when he went to Buenos Aires; a lecture on the Grid and its clinical relevance.

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0429911467

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Bion in Brazil

Supervisions and Commentaries

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Bion in Brazil

Supervisions and Commentaries

By: Wilfred R. Bion

The discovery, translation into English, and publication of these previously unpublished recordings of Bion's clinical supervisions in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with commentaries by leading Brazilian psychoanalysts, gives readers the opportunity to experience for themselves his clinical and theoretical thought as it emerges and evolves through a series of fascinating case discussions.

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Four Discussions with W. R. Bion

By: Wilfred R Bion

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Four Discussions with W. R. Bion

By: Wilfred R Bion

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. It therefore provides a useful introduction to his thinking, whilst the vitality of the exchanges demonstrates the creation and operation of a genuine 'work group' .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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Bion in New York and Sao Paulo

And Three Tavistock Seminars

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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And Three Tavistock Seminars

By: Wilfred R. Bion

A new 2019 edition, edited and introduced by Meg Harris Williams. These two talks given in 1977 and 1978 in New York and Sao Paulo respectively are an edited version of discussions and spontaneous contributions made by Bion, in the main without notes. ‘Leaving room for growth, promoting development, becoming a mental midwife: these are functions which Bion attributes to the analyst, the parent, the educator, who is concerned with enabling the patient, the child, the pupil, to develop through having a genuine experience of himself: an experience of feeling, of thinking based upon that feeling, and of attempting to formulate or take action upon these thoughts.’ ‘Thinking he regarded as a human activity still in its absolute infancy. The development of a capacity to think creatively, which might harness human passions in the service of development and wisdom, appeared to him as something of a race against time.’ ‘By ”Yourself”he means the total person, body and mind, with its whole history, pre- and post-natal. His perception of the modes of expression of the Self became increasingly sharpened by observations which led him to his imaginative conjectures about the relationship between these two selves pre- and post-natal, within the same body.’ ‘If we stay, do not run away, go on observing the patient, after a time “a pattern will emerge”. Discernment of that pattern, the wresting of some order from chaos, may result in mutually beneficial growth for both analyst and patient.’ ‘This is the Bion who sees analysis in the consulting room not as a refuge, but as a preparation for the real thing: for a richer and wiser mode of living in the world.’ Martha Harris

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Wilfred Bion

Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision

By: Wilfred R. Bion

Wilfred Bion's unpublished lectures at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in April in 1967 represent a unique opportunity for students either new to or continuing in the study of the author's unique psychoanalytic vertex. Here one can both read - and hear - the author's clear exposition of his clinical and theoretical thinking to an audience of primarily Freudian trained American analysts, most of whom were new to his ideas. The first lecture sets out the author's ideas on 'memory and desire' in a paper that set the benchmark in the origins of contemporary Kleinian clinical technique. The author discusses the various factors that facilitate optimal listening receptivity in the analyst, for example how one differentiates the 'K' link vis-a-vis 'transformations in O.' In the second lecture, the author defined projective identification, container/contained and 'beta elements'- and how these ideas serve as an orienting template for the analyst's understanding of 'proto-mental' states of mind, either in psychotic, borderline or neurotic patients. He clarifies these ideas while engaging with the queries of renowned American analysts, such as Ralph Greenson.

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0429924062

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Cogitations

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Cogitations

By: Wilfred R. Bion

Cogitations, the last of the posthumous publications, is a collection of occasional writings representing Bion's attempts to clarify and evaluate both his own ideas and those of others by casting them in written form and frequently addressing them to an imaginary audience. Covering a period between February 1958 and April 1979, Cogitations delves into a wide range of material - psychoanalysis and science, mathematics and logic, literature and semantics. Some form a background to Bion's theoretical development, showing the doubts and arguments leading to the ideas expressed in his books, others highlighting and detailing some of the more abstract points in them, and some exploring topics destined for books that were to remain unwritten.

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Taming Wild Thoughts

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Taming Wild Thoughts

By: Wilfred R. Bion

Taming Wild Thoughts brings together previously unpublished works from two different periods of the author's life which are linked, as the author says in her introduction, by the concept of classifying and conceptualizing thought. The first paper, "The Grid", dates from 1963 and is a discussion of great clarity about one of the author's most widely-used conceptual tools; it predates his more discursive paper of the same title (published in Two Papers) by several years. As a teaching paper on this topic, this version of "The Grid" is without parallel, and will doubtless be of great value to all students of his work. The second part of the book consists of transcripts of two tape-recordings made by Bion in 1977. They underline his interest in "wild" or "stray" thoughts; and they provide an insight into his extraordinary sensibility at the time of A Memoir of the Future.

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A Memoir of the Future

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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A Memoir of the Future

By: Wilfred R. Bion

A Memoir of the Future, Bion's unorthodox attempt to cast psychoanalytic speculation in fictional form, is composed of three semi-autobiographical novels: The Dream (1975), The Past Presented (1977), and The Dawn of Oblivion (1979). Presented here for the first time in one volume, they appear together with the Key to A Memoir of the Future, a glossary of terms and concepts compiled by Wilfred and Francesca Bion.

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Four Discussions with W. R. Bion

By: Wilfred R Bion

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Clinical Seminars and Other Works

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Clinical Seminars and Other Works

By: Wilfred R. Bion

Also includes '4 discussions with W.R.Bion' and '4 papers'.

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Bion in New York and Sao Paulo

By: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion

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Bion in New York and Sao Paulo

By: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion

These two talks given in 1977 and 1978 in New York and Sao Paulo respectively are an edited version of discussions and spontaneous contributions made by Bion, in the main without notes.

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0902965131

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Transformations

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Transformations

By: Wilfred R. Bion

Transformations continues the investigation of various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice which the author commenced with Learning from Experience (1962) and pursued in Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963). In this third work published in 1965, the author examines the ways in which the analyst's description of the original analytic experience, mediated by theory, necessarily transforms it in the course of effecting an interpretation.

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Learning from Experience

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Learning from Experience

By: Wilfred R. Bion

As the problems raised in this book are fundamental to learning they have a long history of investigation and discussion. In phsycho-analytical practice, particularly with patients displaying symptoms of disorders of thought, it becomes clear that psycho-analysis has added a dimension to problems if not to their solution. 'This book deals with emotional experiences that are directly related both to theories of knowledge and to clinical psycho-analysis, and that in the most practical manner.'- Wilfred R. Bion, from the Introduction. In this book Bion describes his use of the term "alpha-function" to conceptualize how the data of emotional experience is processed and digested. This includes his thinking on "contact barriers" and the bearing of "projective identification" on the genesis of thought.

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Wilfred Bion

Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision

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The Long Week-End 1897-1919

Part of a Life

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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The Long Week-End 1897-1919

Part of a Life

By: Wilfred R. Bion

Reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of Wilfred Bion s life: eight years of childhood in India, ten years at public school in England, and three years of life in the army.

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Bion in Buenos Aires

Seminars, Case Presentation and Supervision

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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The Italian Seminars

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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The Italian Seminars

By: Wilfred R. Bion

The Italian Seminars, previously unpublished in English, comprises lectures W.R. Bion gave in Rome, in 1977. The volume consists of questions from the floor and Bion's fascinating and, at times, controversial answers. The lectures are divided in two: the first part was organized by the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and the second by the Via Pollaiolo Research Group. Bion's replies examine such diverse subjects as difficulties in the interaction between the therapist and the patient; music and psychoanalysis; non-verbal communication in the consulting room; and methodology in psychoanalysis.

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A Memoir of the Future

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Bion in New York and Sao Paulo

And Three Tavistock Seminars

By: Wilfred R Bion

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And Three Tavistock Seminars

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All My Sins Remembered

Another Part of a Life & The Other Side of Genius: Family Letters

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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All My Sins Remembered

Another Part of a Life & The Other Side of Genius: Family Letters

By: Wilfred R. Bion

All My Sins Remembered is the continuation of Wilfred Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end. Although it is by no means a full account of his thirty years following the First World War - and he wrote no more - his memories of that period contrast vividly with the impression we gain of the following thirty years of his life through his letters. The Other Side of Genius gives us a glimpse of this remarkable man as his family knew him: those who met him only through his professional work will find here the same characteristic threads of humour, concern for truth, and flashes of insight that were the hallmark of his work in psycho-analysis.OXFORD: 'Thus opened for me a period of unparalleled opportunities to which I remained obstinately blind. I was overwhelmed before I started by the aura of intellectual brilliance with which Oxford was surrounded'.

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Wilfred Bion

Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision

By: Wilfred Bion

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Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision

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War Memoirs, 1917-1919

By: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion

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War Memoirs, 1917-1919

By: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion

Paperback version. The first section consists of the entire text of the diaries which Bion wrote as a young man to record his experiences on the Western Front, including his photographs and diagrams. The second section comprises two essays in which he reflects on his war time experiences.

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1855751534

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Two Papers

The Grid and Caesura

By: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion

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The Grid and Caesura

By: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion

Annotation. The Grid is an instrument devised by Bion to help the analyst record and elaborate observations arising from the analytic encounter. It demonstrates how mathematics can be applied to locate the development, evolution and transformation of psychic elements and events. In Caesura, Bion speculates on the relationship between physiological and psychological birth.

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The Long Week-end, 1897-1919

Part of a Life

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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The Long Week-end, 1897-1919

Part of a Life

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The Long Week-End is a reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of the author's life: eight years of childhood in India, ten years at public school in England, and three years in the army.

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Two Papers

'The Grid' and 'Caesura'

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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'The Grid' and 'Caesura'

By: Wilfred R. Bion

The Grid, an instrument devised to help the analyst record and elaborate observations arising from the analytic encounter, demonstrates how mathematics can be applied to locate the development, evolution and transformation of psychic elements and events. Caesura takes its title from Freud's observation: "There is much more continuity between intra-uterine life than the impressive caesura of the act of birth would have us believe". Here Bion speculates on the relationship between physiological and psychological birth, and the possibility that a pre-natal "primitive sensitiveness" may carry over and inform later psychological life.

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Bion in Brazil

Supervisions and Commentaries

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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Supervisions and Commentaries

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War Memoirs 1917-1919

Second Edition

By: Wilfred R. Bion

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War Memoirs 1917-1919

Second Edition

By: Wilfred R. Bion

Bion's War Memoirs is perhaps the most exceptional piece of autobiography yet written by a psychoanalyst. The first section of the book is documentary, consisting of the entire text of the diaries which the author wrote as a young man to record his experiences on the Western Front in 1917-1919, and this volume also includes the photographs and diagrams with which he illustrated his recollections. The diaries are followed by two later essays, in which he reflects upon his wartime experiences. The author has long been renowned as one of the great psychoanalysts, his career spanning much of the twentieth century and making him one of the most influential names in the field. The author's war diary, which he kept with him during combat, covered his years fighting in France during the First World War. He was just twenty years old when he began writing it. War Memoirs constitutes the final part of the author's autobiography.

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