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…

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…

Brings together previously unpublished works from two different periods of the author’s career which are linked by the concept of classifying and conceptualizing thought.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…

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’…

The discovery, translation into English, and publication of these previously unpublished recordings of Bion’s clinical supervisions in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with commentaries by leading Brazilian psychoanalysts, gives readers the opportunity…

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…

This book presents a narrative organized around these letters, featuring the turmoil in Mabel’s relationships with others, most notably D. H. Lawrence, as well as her extraordinarily candid memoirs, both…