Wilfred Bion

His Life and Works

Gerard Bleandonu

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Other Press LLC
15 May 1999

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

Wilfred Bion was one of the most original and influential thinkers in recent psychoanalysis. His ideas, which can be traced in direct line in the development of psychoanalytic theory from Freud to Melanie Klein, are difficult to grasp because his writing style was often enigmatic and ambiguous. This is the first full biography and the first comprehensive explication of his significant contribution to psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Dr. Bleandonu takes us through Bion's personal and intellectual explorations and gives clear accounts of his key concepts, including work groups and basic assumption groups, psychotic processes, catastrophic change, abandonment of memory and desire, the mystic, and ultimate truth. In addition, the grid is carefully laid out and explicated; the emergence of the idea of links, and attacks on them, as a core theme for the rest of Bion's working life is given proper attention; and Bion's attempt to creat an extensive psychoanalytic epistemology is discusses. Finally Bleandonu guides the reader through the fantasy writings in Memoir of the Future, the masterpiece that is Bion's autobiography, and his final writings, including the posthumous Cogitations.

Significant reading for anyone with an interest in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and the development of psychoanalytic thought, this volume will be valued by professionals and students alike.

By: Gerard Bleandonu
Imprint: Other Press LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 437g
ISBN: 9781892746573
ISBN 10: 1892746573
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 May 1999
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , A / AS level , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gerard Bleandonu Gerard Bleandonu is a community psychiatrist in a suburb of Lyon in France. He is the author of books on group therapy and on dreams. R.D. Hinshelwood R.D. Hinshelwood is Clinical Director, The Cassel Hospital, London, and author of A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought and Clinical Klein, both from Free Association Books. Claire Pajaczkowska Claire Pajaczkowska is Senior Lecturer, School of the History and Theory of Visual Culture, Middlesex University, and translator of Freud or Reich? Psychoanalysis and Illusion, by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel and Bela Grunberger (Free Association Books).

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His Life and Works

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