How Bion’s Work on Thinking Might Throw Light on the Development of Sexuality

Nicola Abel-Hirsch is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice. She was the 2013–2015 visiting professor at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Her work on Bion includes: on suffering; Freud and Bion on the life instinct; narcissism and socialism; on observation; Bion’s containing and Winnicott’s holding; and currently, on the place of sexuality in Bion’s work. She is the editor of Hanna Segal’s book Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
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