Bion''s Legacy to Groups - Selected Contributions From International Centennial Conference on

'It is characteristic of some forms of scientific genius to alter not just what we see in the world, but how we see it - not just the view, but the lens. One thinks of Freud's discovery of the transference, or of Melanie Klein's attention to the play of children. Wilfred Bion's study of groups and group processes also has this quality.

List of contents

Foreword , Introduction , The internal establishment , Beyond Bion's Experiences in Groups: group relations research and learning , Are basic assumptions instinctive? , Destructiveness and creativity in organizational life: experiencing the psychotic edge , Schizophrenia from a group perspective , Oneness and Me-ness in the baG? , An attempt to apply Bion's alpha- and beta-elements to processes in society at large

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Franco Borgogno

Summary

'It is characteristic of some forms of scientific genius to alter not just what we see in the world, but how we see it - not just the view, but the lens. One thinks of Freud's discovery of the transference, or of Melanie Klein's attention to the play of children. Wilfred Bion's study of groups and group processes also has this quality.

Product details

• Authors: David Armstrong, Franco Merciai Borgogno
• Assisted by: Franco Borgogno (Editor), Silvio A. Merciai (Editor), Parthenope Bion Talamo (Editor)
• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9781855751880
• ISBN: 978-1-85575-188-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy