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Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion takes a fresh approach to this much revered analyst, focusing on the unique contributions to be found in his analytical and supervisorial work and developing of received Kleinian theory.
List of contents
Introduction: 'Orienting Towards Bion's Clinical Work'
Part 1: Beginnings: Forays into Groups and Psychoanalysis of Psychosis 1. Bion's Early Life: India, Schooling in England, Soldiering in World War I and II; and Life as a Psychiatrist and Innovator of Group Methods of Psychotherapy 2. Prelude to Bion's Papers on Psychosis; Melanie Klein's Work on Psychosis and an Overview of his Papers on 'Psychosis' (1950-1959) 3. A Portal into Psychosis:
'The Imaginary Twin' (1950), and
'Notes on the Theory of Schizophrenia' (1954) 4. Bion as an Uneasy Kleinian Psychoanalyst.
'Development of Schizophrenic Thought' (1956),
'Differentiation of Psychotic from Non-Psychotic Personalities' (1957) 5. Further Clinical Contributions - Part I.
'On Arrogance' (1958a) and
'On Hallucination' (1958b) 6. Further Clinical Contributions - Part II.
'Attacks on Linking' (1959)
Part II: Conceptualizing his Clinical Results 7. Bion's Incursions into Metapsychology:
'The Psychoanalytic Theory ofThinking' (1962a) 8. Learning from Experience - Part I (1962b) 9. Learning from Experience - Part II (1962b) 10. Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963); Transformations (1965); and
'Catastrophic Change' (1966)
Part III: The Distillation of Clinical Experience and Everyday Practices 11.
'Notes on Memory and Desire' (1967a) 12. Seminars and Supervisions in Buenos Aires:
The Continuing Case of the Stormy Borderline Patient (1968) 13. Clinical Work in Buenos Aires: Presentation of an Over Agreeable Young Male Analysand 14. Attention and Interpretation (1970) 15. 'Bion's Clinical Seminars - An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry. (1967-1978). A New Waves of Bion Studies?'
About the author
Joseph Aguayo is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California in West Los Angeles, USA. He is a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in London and holds UCLA doctorates in both Clinical Psychology and Modern European History. His many contributions have appeared in the
International Journal of Psychoanalysis and
Psychoanalytic Quarterly, having also been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese.
Summary
Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion takes a fresh approach to this much revered analyst, focusing on the unique contributions to be found in his analytical and supervisorial work and developing of received Kleinian theory.
