The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's O

The Poetry, Art and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion's O pays homage to Wilfred Bion's lifelong love of poetry and his desire to integrate it with his psychoanalytic work as a means of communicating profound levels of emotional experience.

List of contents

Foreword Introduction 1. Poems for Psychoanalysts 2. The Search for Truth 3. 'O' in Mysticism, Religion, and Psychoanalysis 4. Omnia Mutantur (All Things Change) 5. Spiritual Mysticism in the Visual Arts 6. The Ancient Wisdom is Still New 7. Infant Trauma in Poems and Clinical Work 8. Poems of Being, Poems of O References (Master list)

About the author

Annie Reiner is a senior faculty member and training analyst at The Psychoanalytic Centre of California (PCC) in Los Angeles, USA, and Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association. She lectures throughout the world, is published in numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of three psychoanalytic books: The Quest for Conscience and The Birth of the Mind (2009), Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind (2012) and W. R. Bion's Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (2022) and is the editor of, Of Things Invisible to Mortal Sight: Celebrating the Work of James S. Grotstein (2016). Dr. Reiner maintains a psychoanalytic practice in Beverly Hills, California.

Product details

• Authors: Reiner Annie
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032747941
• ISBN: 978-1-032-74794-1
• No. of pages: 168
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, PHILOSOPHY / Language, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Poetry / Poems