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This book engages a truly international group of distinguished Bion scholars in the task of offering a wide variety of contemporary clinical and theoretical explorations and extensions of the seminal work of Wilfred Bion. Readers will discover personal accounts of contacts with Bion and his ideas, including an extensive report of an analysis with Bion, as well as previously unpublished supervisions that Bion conducted in Brazil in the 1970s with commentaries by contemporary analysts. It also includes detailed case reports and theoretical discussions on a wide variety of topics including autism, psychosomatics, representation, field theory, psychosis and truth; and essays on Sense, Myth and Passion, the late papers, groups and aesthetics. For both experienced analysts and candidates, for those already familiar with Bion and for neophytes, The W. R. Bion Tradition should serve as an essential and up-to-date resource for study, thought and exploration.
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THE W. R. BION TRADITION
LINES OF DEVELOPMENT Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades Series Editors: Norka T. Malberg and Joan Raphael-Leff Other titles in the series: The Anna Freud Tradition: Lines of Development—Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades edited by Norka T. Malberg and Joan Raphael-Leff Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition edited by Graham S. Clarke and David E. Scharff The Winnicott Tradition: Lines of Development—Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades edited by Margaret Boyle Spelman and Frances Thomson-Salo
THE W. R. BION TRADITION Lines of Development—Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades
Edited by
Howard B. Levine and Giuseppe Civitarese
First published in 2016 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2016 to Howard B. Levine and Giuseppe Civitarese for the edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions. The rights of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-78220-036-9 Typeset by V Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com
CONTENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
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SERIES EDITORS’ FOREWORD
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EDITORS’ PREFACE
xxi PART I: PERSONAL, HISTORICAL
Editors’ introduction
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CHAPTER ONE Impressions of my analysis with Dr. Bion José Américo Junqueira de Mattos
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CHAPTER TWO A long meeting with Bion Claudio Neri
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CHAPTER THREE Non-analytic influences on the psychoanalytic theorizing of Wilfred Bion Ronald Britton
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CHAPTER FOUR W. R. Bion: his cultural, national, and historical background, and its impact on his thinking Robert Snell v
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CHAPTER FIVE “I shall be blown to bits”: towards Bion’s theory of catastrophic trauma Carole Beebe Tarantelli
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PART II: PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED SUPERVISIONS Editors’ introduction
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CHAPTER SIX Supervision A34
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Commentary on supervision A34 Roosevelt M. S. Cassorla
CHAPTER SEVEN Supervision D14
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Commentary on supervision D14: a language for the job Giuiseppe Civitarese
CHAPTER EIGHT Supervision A42
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