Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind

Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind allows readers to examine one of the most significant areas of clinical psychoanalytic thinking, focusing on Bion's idiom that dreaming is the central aspect of all emotional functioning and it is a full-time ongoing psychic activity.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Freud¿s Dream and Bion¿s Dream 2. Bion and my Patients 3. On going further to what we know 4. Dreaming, Day-Dreaming and Sensing Things Together 5. We-ness as an Expansion of Bion¿s Psychoanalytic Function of Intuition 6. To Risk Sailing Westward Cathay and Thence Safety Home. The Oneiric States of Mind 7. A Dream is just a Dream 8. The Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind in the Analytic Session 9. Learning from the Experience in the Analytic Session: Dream Work- a 10. Cézanne dreams Bion 11. Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind in Frida Kahlo 12. Beatriz and the Great Mystical Circus: The Musical and Poetical Transformation of an Emotional Experience

About the author

Jani Santamaría Linares is Training and Supervisor Psychoanalyst of Children, Adolescents and Adults of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association and Director of A-Santamaría Psychoanalysis Mexico A.C. She is a member of APsA, IPA and FEPAL and is co- author of Bion Seminars at the A-Santamaria Association: Clinical and Theoretical Explorations (2024).

Product details

• Authors: Jani (A-Santamaria Psicoanalis Santamaria Linares
• Assisted by: Jani Santamaría Linares (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032764597
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276459-7
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Dreams, SELF-HELP / Dreams, Psychotherapy, Psychology: states of consciousness, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Sleep & dreams, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis