Bøker av Wilfred R. Bion

A new 2019 edition, edited and introduced by Meg Harris Williams.These two talks given in 1977 and 1978 in New York and Sao Paulo respectively are an edited version of discussions and spontaneous contributions made by Bion, in the main without notes.

"These four discussions held by Wilfred Bion with a small group of psychiatrists and psychotherapists in Los Angeles in 1976 were first published in 1978, edited by Francesca Bion. Despite its brevity the book covers in a very accessible way the main features of Bion's model of the mind and his view of the psychoanalyst at work. It therefore provides a useful introduction to his thinking, whilst the vitality of the exchanges demonstrates the creation and operation of a genuine 'work group' .This new 2019 edition also includes an introduction to Bion's model of the mind and glossary by Meg Harris Williams."

In this book Bion describes his use of the term 'alpha-function' to conceptualize how the data of emotional experience is processed and digested. This includes his thinking on 'contact barriers' and the bearing of 'projective identification' on the genesis of thought.

All My Sins Remembered is the continuation of Wilfred Bion's autobiography, The Long Week-end. Although it is by no means a full account of his thirty years following the First World War - and he wrote no more - his memories of that period contrast vividly with the impression we gain of the following thirty years of his life through his letters.

The Tavistock Seminars consists of previously unpublished talks given at the Tavistock Clinic between 1976 and 1979 by the leading psychoanalyst W.R. Bion. This volume also includes an interview of Bion by Anthony G. Banet from 1976.

Brings together previously unpublished works from two different periods of the author's career which are linked by the concept of classifying and conceptualizing thought. The first paper 'The Grid' dates from 1963, the second part consists of transcripts of two tape-recordings made in 1977 reflecting his interest in 'stray' thoughts.

The discovery, translation into English, and publication of these previously unpublished recordings of Bion's clinical supervisions in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with commentaries by leading Brazilian psychoanalysts, gives readers the opportunity to experience for themselves his clinical and theoretical thought.

Also includes '4 discussions with W.R.Bion' and '4 papers'.

Incorporating many corrections to previously published works, it also features previously unpublished papers. Including a general index and editorial introductions to all the works, these volumes will be a useful and valuable aid to psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians, and all those interested in studying and making use of Bion's thinking.

Bion's semi-autobiographical psychoanalytic novel.

This is a collection of occasional writings by Bion, covering a period between 1958 and 1979, which delve into a wide range of material - psychoanalysis, science, mathematics and logic, literature and semantics.

A selection of Bion's papers on Schizophrenia, Linking and Thinking, and his commentary upon them in the light of later work. Originally published in 1967.

Bion argues that for the study of people - whether individually or in groups - accurate observation is essential. Problems of language are given careful consideration, and an attempt is made to show how certain psychological problems can be usefully compared with mathematical formulations.