New introduction to the work of Bion

[By] Leon Grinberg, Dario Sor, [and] Elizabeth Tabak de Bianchedi. Foreword by W.R. Bion. Rev. ed. of: Introduction to the work of Bion, c1977. 1st ed. pub. in UK, Roland Harris Educational Trust, 1975. Includes chron. list of pubs. of Bion.

Bion, Wilfred R. 1897-1979 : For an overview of his analytic theory, see Chapt. 7: Reflections on the practice of psychoanalysis, p113-126; For analysis of selected writings, see Chapt.8: The last Bion, p129-154.. Group Psychotherapy : Chapt. 1: Groups: The individual and the group; Group mentality-Group culture; Basic assumption work; Work group; Specialized work group; Catastrophic change; The mystic and the group.. Psychoses : Chapt. 2: The individual and psychosis; The psychotic personality; Thought and language in individuals with a predominantly psychotic personality; Catastrophic change in the psychotic crisis.. Thought and Thinking : Chapt. 3: Thought : Origin and nature of thinking: theory of functions; Importance of models in psychoanalytic theory and technique: their application to the theory of thought; A theory of thought - 'Apparatus to think thoughts': The container-contained model of the dynamic interaction between the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position; The grid.. Transformation (Psychology) : Chapt. 4: Transformations: Transformations and invariance- Groups of transformations; Rigid motion transformations and projective transformations; Transformations in hallucinosis; Transformations from 'O' and in 'O'; Catastrophic change: evolution and intuition; Chapt. 5: Transformation in Hallucinosis.. Hallucinosis : Chapt. 5: Transformation in hallucinosis: Space and time in the psychotic area of the personality; Mental space in hallucinosis; Also Chapt. 4, has a section on Transformations in hallucinosis.. Knowledge, Theory of : Chapt. 6: Knowledge: L, H and K links; Myths as models of the K link; The psychoanalytic object; Vertices, correlation and confrontation; Truth, falsehood and lies.. Freud, Sigmund. 1856-1939 : see index.. Klein, Melanie. 1882-1960 : see index.. Psychotherapy Patients - Language : see index.. Language and Languages : see index.. Mystics : The mystic and the group, p18-20, see index.. Projection (Psychology) : Projective identification, see index.. Signs and Symbols : see index.. Space and Time : Space and time in the psychotic area of the personality, p89- 91; Mental space in hallucinosis, p91-94, see index.. Schizophrenia : Psychosis, the broader term is used.

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