Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious...

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Robert Caper (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words

Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious

Robert Caper (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

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Routledge
19 March 2020

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy

Series: The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series

Distinguishing psychoanalysis, as a search for truth, from suggestion, as a cure for symptoms, this book addresses the scientific status of psychoanalysis. Citing research into the relationship of infants to their caretakers, the author discusses evidence that unconscious communication is present from birth, and that this form of communication plays a central role in psychoanalysis at a level below that of verbal communication. Informed by Bion's ideas of containment, group functioning and the fundamental psychological need for truth, this book asserts that psychoanalysis, based solely on the search for truth, has, among all psychological interventions, both a unique claim to scientific status and a unique ability to foster psychological development.

Exploring the relationship between unconscious communication, group dynamics, containment and psychological development in a highly original way, Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious will be of great interest to psychotherapists, psychologists and psychoanalysts who are interested in the relationship between psychoanalysis and suggestion.

By: Robert Caper (University of California at Los Angeles USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 186g
ISBN: 9780367418458
ISBN 10: 0367418452
Series: The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 19 March 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Chapter 1: Song-and-dance Chapter 2: Song-and-dance and the internal world Chapter 3: The dynamics of unconscious communication Chapter 4: Psychoanalysis and suggestion Chapter 5: Psychoanalysis beyond suggestion Chapter 6: The analyst’s Oedipal dilemma Chapter 7: Psychoanalysis and science Chapter 8: The craft of psychoanalysis Chapter 9: Psychoanalysis and play Chapter 10: Containment, self-containment and identification Chapter 11: Finding the context Chapter 12: Summary and conclusions

Robert Caper, MD, is the author of three books and numerous articles on psychoanalysis. He has lectured in countries all around the world and currently resides in New York City and Vermont where he practices and teaches.