Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision

Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision

Wilfred Bionâ€™s unpublished lectures at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in April 1967 represent a unique opportunity for students either new to or continuing in the study of Bionâ€™s unique psychoanalytic vertex. Here one can both readâ€•and hearâ€•Bionâ€™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 Bionâ€™s ideas on â€œmemory and desireâ€ in a paper that set the benchmark in the origins of contemporary Kleinian clinical technique. Bion discusses the various factors that facilitate optimal listening receptivity in the analyst, for example how one differentiates the â€œKâ€ link vis-Ã -vis â€œtransformations in O.â€ In the second lecture, Bion defined projective identification, container/contained and â€œbeta elementsâ€â€•and how these ideas serve as an orienting template for the analystâ€™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. In the third lecture, Bion gives extensive case illustrations of primarily borderline and psychotic patients primarily in terms of work that ushered in a new era of understanding of both borderline and narcissistic pathological organizations. In the final lecture, Bion takes up hallucinatory forms of experience and intersperses his more recent thoughts about the mystic and the Establishment, understanding something of the problematic tensions introduced by the London Kleinians who had in recent years questioned Freudâ€™s assumptions about the non-analyzability of the so-called "narcissistic neuroses."
Country USA
Brand Routledge
Manufacturer Routledge
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2013-07-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781780491943

Country	USA
Brand	Routledge
Manufacturer	Routledge
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	2013-07-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781780491943

Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision

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