Bion today

Section 1 - Introduction to Bion. 1 Introduction: Bion today--thinking in the field - Chris Mawson. 2 Whose Bion? - Edna O'Shaughnessy. Section 2 - Mainly conceptual. 3 The emotional experience of K - James Fisher. 4 The pleasure principle, the reality principle and the uncertainty principle - Ronald Britton. 5 Bion: the phenomenologist of loss - David Bell. 6 Anticipation and interpretation - David Taylor. 7 Science and fiction in the psychoanalytical field - Lia Pistiner de Cortinas. Section 3 - Mainly clinical. 8 Clinical implications of Bion's thought - Antonino Ferro. 9 Relating to the superego - Edna O'Shaughnessy. 10 'The consolation which is drawn from truth': the analysis of a patient unable to suffer experience - Howard Levine. 11 Clinical vignette encompassing Bion's technical ideas - James Grotstein. 12 Taking the transference: some technical implications in three papers by Bion - Judith Mitrani. Section 4 - Aesthetic. 13 W.R. Bion and T.S. Eliot - Anna Dartington. 14 Bion's transformations: art and psychoanalysis - Janet Sayers. Section 5 - Group mentality. 15 The plurability of experience - David Armstrong. 16 Group therapy: myth in the service of work - Caroline Garland. 17 Learning from Bion's legacy to groups - Robert Lipgar. 18 Some neglected clinical material from Bion's Experiences in Groups - John Gordon. Section 6 - Later Bion. 19 Bion's critical approach to psychoanalysis - Rudi Vermote. 20 "From resemblance to identity": the internal narrative of a fifty-minute hour - Margot Waddell. 21 'Underlying pattern' in Bion's Memoir of the Future - Meg Harris Williams. Appendix: W.R. Bion bibliography - Harry Karnac

'...explores how Bion's work is used in contremporary settings; how his ideas have been applied at the level of the individual, the group and the organisation; and which phenomena have been made more comprehensible through the lenses of his concepts. The book introduces distinctive psychoanalytic contributions to show the ways in which distinguished analysts have explored and developed the ideas of Wilfred Bion.'

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