Showing papers by "Wilfred R. Bion published in 2013"
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show the significance of this form of destructive attack in the production of some symptoms met with in borderline psychosis, i.e., the patient makes on anything which is felt to have the function of linking one object with another.
Abstract: In previous papers (3) I have had occasion, in talking of the psychotic part of the personality, to speak of the destructive attacks which the patient makes on anything which is felt to have the function of linking one object with another. It is my intention in this paper to show the significance of this form of destructive attack in the production of some symptoms met with in borderline psychosis.
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TL;DR: A theoretical system devised with the intention that practising psycho-analysts should restate the hypotheses of which it is composed in terms of empirically verifiable data, which is intended to be applicable in a significant number of cases.
Abstract: (2013). The Psycho-Analytic Study of Thinking. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 301-310.
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15 Jul 2013
TL;DR: Bion's unpublished lectures at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in April in 1967 represent a unique opportunity for students either new to or continuing in the study of the author's unique psychoanaliatic vertex.
Abstract: Wilfred Bion's unpublished lectures at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in April in 1967 represent a unique opportunity for students either new to or continuing in the study of the author's unique psychoanalytic vertex. Here one can both read - and hear - the author's clear exposition of his clinical and theoretical thinking to an audience of primarily Freudian trained American analysts, most of whom were new to his ideas. The first lecture sets out the author's ideas on 'memory and desire' in a paper that set the benchmark in the origins of contemporary Kleinian clinical technique. The author discusses the various factors that facilitate optimal listening receptivity in the analyst, for example how one differentiates the 'K' link vis-a-vis 'transformations in O.' In the second lecture, the author defined projective identification, container/contained and 'beta elements'- and how these ideas serve as an orienting template for the analyst's understanding of 'proto-mental' states of mind, either in psychotic, borderline or neurotic patients. He clarifies these ideas while engaging with the queries of renowned American analysts, such as Ralph Greenson.
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