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Wilfred R. Bion
The Grid, an instrument devised to help the analyst record and elaborate observations arising from the analytic encounter, demonstrates how mathematics can be applied to locate the development, evolution and…
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Parthenope Bion Talamo
Maps for Psychoanalytic Exploration brings together the author’s main works, until now published only in Italian. They are made available to a wider readership in this volume through a translation…
The Tavistock Seminars consists of previously unpublished talks given at the Tavistock Clinic between 1976 and 1979 by the leading psychoanalyst W.R. Bion.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…
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…
W Bion Adkins
[…] Then a Levite, temple bound, drew nigh; He saw the man, but let him lie, And clad in silk, and filled with pride, He passed him by on the…
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"The Jericho Road" via W. Bion Adkins stands as a literary masterpiece that transcends conventional storytelling, delving into the world of social science evaluation. Adkins, a fantastic creator, weaves a…
This book deals with emotional experiences that are directly related both to theories of knowledge and to clinical psycho-analysis, and that in the most practical manner.
These lectures, delivered in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during 1973 and 1974, reveal Bion in his most vital and challenging mode both in respect of the material he…
A Memoir of the Future, Bion’s unorthodox attempt to cast psychoanalytic speculation in fictional form, is composed of three semi-autobiographical novels: The Dream (1975), The Past Presented (1977), and The…
The volume consists of questions from the floor and Bion’s fascinating and, at times, controversial answers. The author’s replies examine such diverse subjects as difficulties in the interaction between the…
Brings together previously unpublished works from two different periods of the author’s career which are linked by the concept of classifying and conceptualizing thought.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…
David de Bion
SPLM/SPLA: History of Liberation is short and an insightful account of what had exactly happened, and why it happened, in the Old Sudan between Arab Sudanese in the North and…
Jean Francois Bion
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
These four talks cover in a very accessible way the main features of Bion’s model of the mind and his view of the psychoanalyst at work. This edition includes an…
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the…
First published in 1965 this book is the continuation of the author’s investigation of various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice. He examines the way in which an analyst’s description…
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Bion H Butler
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David Aoloch Bion
This is a rare treat, a collection of folktales and fables from South Sudan - the newest country in the world. These stories will be most familiar amongst the Dinka…
Wilfred R Bion
Bion Joseph Arnold
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
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’…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Walter Arnold Bion
This book contains lectures W.R. Bion gave in Rome, in 1977, which examines diverse subjects such as difficulties in the interaction between the therapist and the patient; music and psychoanalysis…
These newly discovered clinical seminars of Wilfred Bion, which include supervisions, personal case presentations, and lectures on psychoanalytic theory, represent his initial foray into many years of work that have…
The Long Week-End is a reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of the author’s life: eight years of childhood in India, ten years at public school in England, and three…
The author’s war diary, which he kept with him during combat, covered his years fighting in France during the First World War. He was just twenty years old when he…
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1970 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and…
This book is about the relationships of one man-Wilfred Ruprecht Bion. It is a reminiscence of the first twenty-one years of Bion’s life-eight years of childhood in India, ten years…
Brings together previously unpublished works from two different periods of Bion’s career which are linked by the concept of classifying and conceptualizing thought. The first paper ‘The Grid’ dates from…
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…
Elements is a discussion of categorising the ideational context and emotional experience that may occur in a psychoanalytic interview. The text aims to expand the reader’s understanding of cognition and…