Binocular Vision in Psychoanalysis explains field theory from a Bionian perspective, while exploring the relationship between art and psychoanalysis.
Binocular Vision: An Inquiry into Psychoanalytic Techniques and Field Theory explains field theory from a Bionian perspective, while exploring the relationship between art and psychoanalysis.
Elena Molinari starts from Bions double definition to explore the relationship between the conscious and unconscious thought process. She looks at a wide range of specific situations where field theory can be beneficial, from mother-baby therapy with a borderline mother, couple and group therapy, and the relationship of female subjectivity between an analyst and an adolescent analysand. In each situation, Molinari unpicks what Binocular Vision might mean as a transformative process used to explore the primitive parts of the mind. By doing so, she brings the reader back to the earliest developments of the primary relationship between analyst and client, and how this process can unite the psychoanalytic process and the artistic process.
The book has been written for psychotherapists approaching and utilising field theory in child and adult psychoanalysis, and offers vital knowledge to clinicians working with patients in primitive states.
1. Turning the roles upside down: can a baby dream the mothers
infantile trauma?
2. Intimacy and autism: an apparent paradox
3. One child,
two parents, a psychoanalyst. In other words: a group
4. Adolescent Feminine
Subjectivities and the Analysts One: a creative crossing via transitory
objects
5. Recognition takes a long journey
6. Color field painting: Bion and
Rothko
7. LOrigine du monde at the end of analysis
8. Seeking comfort in an
uncomfortable chair
9. The art of fielding
10. The binocular vision of a
paediatrician and a psychoanalyst
11. Binocular group vision: a method to
explore the less accessible areas of the mind
Elena Molinari is a psychoanalyst at the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and an International Psychoanalytical Association member. She began her professional life working as a paediatrician. She has worked as a private analyst with adults, children and adolescents. Currently she is teaching Child Neuropsychiatry for the postgraduate course in Art Therapy at Brera Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan.
