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These lectures have been edited to suit them to the printed, rather than the spoken word. With the exception of a few minor additions the text is substantially the same as that of the transcripts taken from the original tape recordings.
The questions which stimulated the material content have had to be subjected to the same selection and compression without, I hope, too much misrepresentation of the intentions of the participants. To them I would like to express my thanks; also to Frank Philips, whose arduous and spontaneous translation made the lectures in São Paulo possible. Of my wife's contribution in changing the spoken to the printed word I cannot speak highly enough. This book has cost her many hours of skilful work.
The lectures given in Rio de Janeiro were simultaneously translated by Cibele Pallon and Elizabeth Hart, to whom I take this opportunity to express my admiration and thanks.
In São Paulo Frank Philips again translated as I spoke. I had a renewed opportunity to admire the facility and speed with which he did this and here express my thanks.
As before, this printed version is the work of my wife. She is not to blame for the defects of which I become more aware at each scrutiny. Gardeners, like my wife, know how pebbles multiply on a bed which is supposed to present the ‘minimum conditions’ for flowers to flourish. That they are no worse I owe to her.
Wilfred R. Bion