This book provides a clear, comprehensive, and sequential account of Bion's thinking, his life experience and technical innovations, saturated with quotes from his diaries and theoretical papers. It offers clinical vignettes to illuminate salient aspects of the therapeutic encounter.
Series Editors Foreword -- Editors Preface -- Personal, Historical --
Impressions of my analysis with Dr. Bion -- A long meeting with Bion --
Non-analytic influences on the psychoanalytic theorizing of Wilfred Bion --
W. R. Bion: his cultural, national, and historical background, and its impact
on his thinking -- I shall be blown to bits: towards Bions theory of
catastrophic trauma -- Previously Unpublished Supervisions -- Supervision A34
-- Commentary on supervision A34 -- Supervision D14 -- Commentary on
supervision D14: a language for the job -- Supervision A42 -- Commentary on
supervision A42 -- Clinical/Theoretical: One -- Turbulence and growth: an
encounter between Ismalia and Isaura -- Mental states and emotional relations
in the analytic setting: implications for therapeutic work -- The function of
evocation in the working-through of the countertransference: projective
identification, reverie, and the expressive function of the mindReflections
inspired by Bions work -- The truth object: growing the god within -- Making
contact with psychotic and autistic phenomena: container/contained and
autistic transformations -- Clinical/Theoretical: Two -- Changes in technique
and in the theory of technique in a post-Bion field model -- Containing
systems in the analytic field -- The hat on top of the volcano: Bions O
and the body-mind relationship -- Bridging the gap: from soma-psychosis to
psychosomatics -- A Note and a Short Story -- Flying thoughts in search of a
nest: a tribute to W. R. Bion -- A Clinical Exchange -- A silent war:
dreading recovery -- Dreaming into being -- St. Sulpice -- Sense, Myth, and
Passion -- Sense, sensible, sense-able: the bodily but immaterial dimension
of psychoanalytic elements -- Myth, dream, and meaning: reflections on a
comment by Bion -- Passion -- Late Papers and Basic Concepts -- Notes on
memory and desire: implications for working through -- On Bions text
Emotional turbulence: a focus on experience and the unknown -- On Making
the best of a bad job -- Reflections on Caesura (1977) -- Evidence -- Is
the concept of O necessary for psychoanalysis? -- Groups -- Affect, reverie,
mourning, and Bions theory of groups in our time -- Containing primitive
emotional states: approaching Bions later perspectives on groups -- Bion and
the large group -- The influence of Bion on my research -- Aesthetics --
Using art for the understanding of psychoanalysis and using Bion for the
understanding of contemporary art -- The buried harbor of dreaming:
psychoanalysis and literaturetowards a Bionian, non-archaeological approach
-- Communicating pictures: aesthetic aspects as a developmental tool for the
container-contained interaction
Howard L. Levine, Giuseppe Civitarese