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CHRIS MAWSON is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice as a psychoanalyst. He worked initially with young children and adolescents, first at the Tavistock Clinic and later in the Child Psychiatry Department of the Paddington Green Children's Hospital in the days when children at that clinic were offered intensive psychoanalytic treatment. His first training was as a clinical psychologist, with a research interest in attention and manic depressive psychosis.
As well as the clinical practice of psychoanalysis, he is interested in the study of groups and organizations from a psychoanalytic perspective, particularly that pursued by those of the British Group Relations orientation.
He is the Editor of Bion Today (2010), in the New Library of Psychoanalysis series. Other publications include: ‘The Use of Play Technique in Understanding Disturbed Behaviour in School’ (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Vol. 2, No. 1, ); ‘Containing Anxiety in Work with Damaged Children’ (in The Unconscious at Work, ed. A. Obholzer & V. Z. Roberts, ); and ‘Pseudo-Free Association: The Sophisticated Analytic Patient and “As-If” Relating’ (British Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 18, No. 4, ).
FRANCESCA BION is the widow of Wilfred Bion and the transcriber and first editor of his seminars and talks and many of his published works. She was made an Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society in recognition of the importance of her contribution to the transmission of psychoanalysis.