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Sostén y contención. Sobre la especificidad de las relaciones objetales en Winnicott
Abram, Jan (2025). Revista de Psicoanálisis (APM), 104: 515-540
The Clinical Paradigms of Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion: comparisons and dialogues. Clinical Paradigms Series. New York & London: … , D. W. (2016f). Letter to Wilfred Bion, 7 October 1955. In l. Caldwell & H. T. Robinson (Eds. …
W. R. Bion’s Case of the Imaginary Twin: An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry

Aguayo, Joseph (2026). The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 95(1): 7-34. doi:10.1080/00332828.2025.2609534

Bion at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London on July 4, 2025, this paper was an invited contribution in celebration of Wilfred Bion’s storied career as … Bléandonu, G. (1994). Wilfred Bion, His Life and Works, 1897-1979. London: Free Association Books. …

Em-mature e l'Enunciato del non-agire: Da “Lo Sviluppo kleiniano” di Meltzer alcune riflessioni sulla memoria e il desiderio (*)

Speziale-Bagliacca, Roberto (1984). Rivista di Psicoanalisi, 30(1): 143-155

92). Non c'è dubbio che Wilfred Bion abbia suscitato reazioni tra le più disparate. Credo si possa essere d'accordo sul fatto che la lettura …

Trying to Find Someone: A Modern Kleinian Reconsideration of the Treatment of Mrs. C

Vorus, Neal (2021). DIVISION/Review, 24: 39-42

fantasy reduce anxiety? In my view, it is Wilfred Bion (1962) who finally addressed this question in a satisfying way, and his answer really … Bion, W. R. (1962). Learning from experience. London, England: Karnac. Grotstein, J. (2007). A beam of intense darkness: Wilfred …

Do I Have to Draw You a Picture? Sigmund Freud, Imagery, and the Wolf-Man’s Drawing

Teitelbaum, Stefanie (2016). Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36(8): 633-643. doi:10.1080/07351690.2016.1226055

about the confirming function of the drawing, Wilfred Bion wrote: How much can be obtained by ignoring the figure, the diagram, except in so far as it … Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? A Memorial to Wilfred R. Bion, ed. J. Grotstein. London: Karnac …

The Hippocampus Facilitates Immersive Processing within a Symbolic Field

Cornelius, John (2015). IJP Open - Open Peer Review and Debate, 2(20): 1-27

within psychoanalysis, Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion. Winnicott theorized about early symbol use from the perspective of a pediatrician engaged in … (Winnicott, 1971). Wilfred Bion, in his way, developed a concept of mind as being, in part, made up of a dynamically interwoven lattice …

Faith as the Fulcrum of Psychic Change: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis

Starr, Karen E. (2008). Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 18(2): 203-229

In Seven servants: Four works by Wilfred Bion. New York: Aronson. …

Tempo e inconscio. Inattualità e creatività in Wilfred R. Bion Goriano Rugi Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2023, pagine 231, euro 28,00

Manica, Mauro (2023). Rivista di Psicoanalisi, 69(4): 1301-1304

Tempo e inconscio. Inattualità e creatività in Wilfred R. Bion Goriano Rugi Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2023, pagine 231 …

Neither Zen, Nor Psychoanalysis. The Book (That Needs to be) Closed Or How the Creative Ego Writes Itself, between Psychoanalysis and Zen from Matei Georgescu's Point of View

Luca, Daniela (2011). Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 4(2): 111-115

so on), without forgetting the fascinating Wilfred R. Bion with his familiar phrase, “without desire or memory“, when he describes the state/the ability …

Interventi sul caso Matteo

Zavattini, Giulio Cesare (2018). Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 52(4): 625-627. doi:10.3280/PU2018-004009

terminare questo mio commento, ricordare quanto Wilfred R. Bion scrive nell'introduzione del saggio del 1967 Second Thoughts (Riflettendoci meglio. A …

Panel Report, IPA Congress Boston 2015: Advances in Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Changing psychoanalytic Models of the Mind and Technique in a Changing World

Winters, Nancy (2015). International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 96(6): 1635-1638. doi:10.1111/1745-8315.12453

South America, another based on the work of Wilfred R. Bion and Antonino Ferro, and a third model derived from the family of North American field theories. …

History of Countertransference: From Freud to the British Object Relations School by Alberto Stefana (London & New York: Routledge, 2017; 159 pp.)

Giovanini, Valerie Oved (2019). Psychoanalysis and History, 21(2): 236-239. doi:10.3366/pah.2019.0299

like Roger Money-Kyrle, Michael Fordham, and Wilfred R. Bion, who find increasing therapeutic potential when the clinician introjects the patient's psycho-pathology …

Intimidad: lo dramático y lo bello en el encuentro y desencuentro con el otro

Levy, Ruggero (2018). Revista de Psicoanálisis (APM), 82: 207-234

Um facho de intensa escuridão: o legado de Wilfred Bion à psicanálise. Porto Alegre: Artmed. (Publicado originalmente en 2005). …

“How to Cure Family Disturbance”: Enid Balint and the Creation of Couple Psychoanalysis: Twenty-First Enid Balint Memorial Lecture 2016

Kahr, Brett (2017). Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, 7(1): 1-25

post-war Tavistock Clinic, headed initially by Dr Wilfred Bion as Chair of the Interim Medical Committee, had already planned, quite explicitly, to grapple … psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, such as Dr Wilfred Bion and Dr Siegmund Foulkes, treated British soldiers during the Second World War, Enid decided that she …

Psychoanalysis at Hawkspur Camp and Other Therapeutic Communities for Antisocial Children and Young People

Tomcic, Ana (2024). Psychoanalysis and History, 26(2): 187-208. doi:10.3366/pah.2024.0512

established by the psychoanalysts John Rickman and Wilfred Bion. Yet there is a much longer history of therapeutic camps and residential schools working with … , T. (2007) John Rickman, Wilfred Bion and the origins of the therapeutic community. History of Psychology 10(1): …

The Conspiracy Narrative “The Big Lie”—Psychoanalytical Considerations on the Development of Susceptibility to an “Alternative Reality”

Zienert-Eilts, Karin Johanna (2024). International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 21(1): e1845. doi:10.1002/aps.1845

, the author combines the explanations of Wilfred Bion, Susan Isaacs and Herbert Rosenfeld and develops the hypothesis, including the concept of “ … processes as formulated by Susan Isaacs, Wilfred Bion and Herbert Rosenfeld and which are originally to be generally classified in the breadth of the …

Relational Resistance and Psychic Capture: Objects, Gestures, and Intersubjectivity in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Cartas-Bandeira, Bernardo (2026). International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 23(3): e7068. doi:10.1002/aps.70068

of thinking, as explored by theorists such as Wilfred Bion, André Green, Thomas Ogden, and, more implicitly, Donald Winnicott. This type of knowledge refers … plurality (e.g., Sigmund Freud; Melanie Klein; Wilfred Bion). Through its oppressive action, the fascist mind seeks to prevail over other parts of the self, …

Between Wonder and Doubt: Psychoanalysis in the Goal-Free Zone

Cooper, Paul (2002). The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 62(2): 95-118

SuzukiWilfred Bionpsychoanalytic techniquegoal-setting … model focuses on truth of a nonsensory nature. Wilfred Bion refers to this truth simply as “O” because it defies definition;“O” can be intuited but not known. …

Excogitating Bion's Cogitations: Further Implications for Technique

Mitrani, Judith (2011). The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 80(3): 671-698

Wilfred Biontechniquetransference … , I took up some aspects of three papers by Wilfred Bion that, when considered together, generate significant technical implications for analytic work. …

Pain: A Psychoanalytic Study in the Etiology of Depressive Disorders

Azzone, Paolo (2019). Modern Psychoanalysis, 43(2): 1-32

handling of emotional pain. Specifically, Wilfred Ruprecht Bion incorporated the processing of mental pain as a basic feature of his theory of mental … pp. 61-62) Wilfred Bion discovered mental pain as an element—actually, a core element—in both human development and the …

Accessing Reality: Re-Framing Human Experience: The Relevance of the Grubb Institute's Contributions as a Christian Foundation to Group Relations in the Post-9/11 World

Bazalgette, John; Reed, Bruce (2005). Organisational and Social Dynamics, 5(2): 199-224

conference. Drawing on the work of Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and others, these pioneers began to consider how thinking in terms of splitting and projection … that launched the twenty-first century, just as Wilfred Bion, Ken Rice, Pierre Turquet and others sought to do in the last half of the twentieth century under …

A Servant's Bargain: Perversion as Survival

Bonner, Svetlana (2006). International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 87(6): 1549-1567

Bléandonu G (1990). Wilfred Bion. His life and works 1897-1979, Pajaczkowska C, translator. London: Free Association Books</ … (1981). Memorial meeting for Dr. Wilfred Bion. Int. Rev. Psycho-Anal. 8: 3-14. 1567 …

“With you I’m Born Again”: Themes and Fantasies of Birth and the Family Circumstances Surrounding Birth as These are Mutually Evoked in Patient and Analyst

Aron, Lewis (2014). Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 24(3): 341-357. doi:10.1080/10481885.2014.911601

into being.” A schizophrenic patient reported to Wilfred Bion that he had a dream in which he “was walking along the river bank with my children, when they … Malin, B. (2013). Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles seminars and supervision. London, UK: Karnac. …

Infant Observation and the French Model

Houzel, Didier (2012). International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 93(1): 181-201. doi:10.1111/j.1745-8315.2011.00499.x

me to link up with the model proposed by Wilfred Bion (1962b) 190 of the relation container … negative capability, as described by Wilfred Bion (1970), following John Keats (1952), that he can become a container for …

Ο ρόλος της ανακληθείσας από τον ασθενή ιστορίας και το ασυνείδητο παρελθόν στην εξέλιξη της 'Eδώ και Τώρα’ κλινικής τεχνικής της Betty Joseph (1959-1989)

Aguayo, Joseph (2014). Eτήσια Ελληνική Έκδοση / Greek Annual of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2: 47-72

ότι το έκδηλο και υπόρρητο θεωρητικό έργο του Wilfred Bion, καθώς επίσης και η ομάδα συνεχούς εργασίας για αναλυτές της Joseph, οδήγησε σε μια αυξανόμενη … σεμινάρια μαζί με τον Roger Money-Kyrie και τον Wilfred Bion, μεταξύ άλλων (Pick και Milton, 2001)1. Δεν είναι δύσκολο να …

Good and Bad: Love and Intimacy from Plato to Melanie Klein

Stromberg, David (2018). The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 78(2): 159-181. doi:10.1057/s11231-018-9136-7

B026" name="pgx" type="PLACEHOLDER">254). Wilfred Bion raises a related point in Transformations (1965), where in a discussion of … Donald Winnicott (1958), and Wilfred Bion (1962). Two more recent books particularly stand out for their ability to develop …

A “Work in Progress” Between Past, Present and Future: The Dream in/of Sándor Ferenczi

Borgogno, Franco (2014). Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 34(2): 80-97. doi:10.1080/07351690.2014.850275

La Interconexion Entre Sándor Ferenczi y Wilfred Bion [The Interconnection between Sándor Ferenczi and Wilfred Bion]. Presented at the “ …

Oedipus and Cain: Brothers in arms

De Vleminck, Jens (2010). International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 19(3): 172-184. doi:10.1080/08037061003657329

Lacan, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion. According to Jonathan Lear, Freud himself, however, did not succeed at giving human aggression a … , such as Carl Gustav Jung, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion. This is highly remarkable given the fact that in these authors, among others, the theme of human …

Bion Crosses the Rubicon: The Fateful Course - and Curse - of O in Psychoanalysis and the Furies Left in its Wake

Grotstein, James S. (2015). Rivista di Psicoanalisi, 61(3): 565-585

Malin B. (eds.) (2013). Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision. London, Karnac, Books. … Bion W.R. (1992). Commentaryon the scientific deductive system. In Cogitations. London, Karnac Books. Bleandonu G. (1993). Wilfred …

Waltz with Bashir – The dialectic of escaping and confronting traumatic experiences

Heiman, Noa; Shalgi, Boaz (2020). International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 101(1): 196-209. doi:10.1080/00207578.2019.1645568

Notes on Memory and Desire.” In Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision, edited by J. Aguayo, and B. Malin … S. 1981. “Wilfred R. Bion: The Man, the Psychoanalyst, the Mystic. A Perspective on his Life and Work.” In Do I Dare …

An Interview with Dr. James Grotstein

Fried, William (2015). DIVISION/Review, 12: 10-14

with experiences, memories, and the specter of Wilfred Bion. His writings and other communications convey that Bion was a towering and troubling presence in his …

W. R. BION (1897-1979)

Bégoin, Jean (1980). Revue française de psychanalyse, 44(2): 349-354

BION (1897-1979)1 Jean Bégoin Wilfred …

Sándor Ferenczi: A Contemporary Introduction, by Alberto Fergusson and Miguel Gutiérrez-Peláez, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2022, 125 pp.

Reiner, Annie (2022). The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82(4): 637-642. doi:10.1057/s11231-022-09382-7

Bion, W. R. (1965). Transformations. In Seven servants: Four works by Wilfred. R. Bion, pp. 11-183. New York: Jason …

Facing “O”: Wilfred Bion, Emmanuel Levinas, And The Face of The Other

Emery, Edward (2000). The Psychoanalytic Review, 87(6): 799-840

799-840 Facing “O”: Wilfred Bion, Emmanuel Levinas, And The Face of The Other … is akin to what the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion (1970) said of the truth in contrast to the lie (the toxic host-parasite mind relationship that …

Dall'interpersonale all'intersoggettivo in psicoanalisi. Un contributo alla discussione dell'articolo di Giuseppe Civitarese e degli interventi di Filippo Maria Ferro & Giuseppe Riefolo e di Mauro Fornaro (n. 3/2023)

Conci, Marco (2023). Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 57(4): 670-678. doi:10.3280/PU2023-004009

da una creativa rivisitazione dell'opera di Wilfred Bion (condotta insieme ad Antonino Ferro, e in contatto con Thomas Ogden), gli ha permesso di approdare al …

Review of Margaret Rustin’s Finding a way to the child. Selected papers 1983–2021: Kate Stratton, & Simon Cregeen. (Eds.). (2023). Margaret Rustin’s Finding a way to the child. Selected papers 1983–2021. London and New York: Routledge.

Altman, Neil (2024). Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 23(2): 205-212. doi:10.1080/15289168.2024.2344398

KleinIan theory as expanded upon and elaborated by Wilfred Bion. Meanwhile, the field has evolved so as to address children and families with more severe …

Un luogo per esistere, una storia da raccontare. Qualche riflessione a partire dal segnale d'angoscia

Cattelan, Chiara (2025). Rivista di Psicoanalisi, 71(3): 759-772. doi:10.26364/RPSA20250710759

Un raggio d'intensa oscurità. L'eredità di Wilfred Bion. Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2010. Guerrini Degl'innocenti …

Conceptual Tools of Ethnopsychoanalytic Thinking in Clinical Work with Migrant Patients

Saller, Vera (2004). Free Associations, 11(1): 122-133

thinking. Her notions of this are influenced by Wilfred R. Bion and American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce. E-mail: … über die Denkmodelle von Charles S. Peirce und Wilfred R. Bion (in print). 133 …

Three Modern Clinician-Theorists: Simbiosis y Ambiguedad [Symbiosis and Ambiguity]. By José Bleger. Buenos Aires: Editorial Paidos, 1967, 307 pp.

Sosnik, Rogelio (2011). Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 59(4): 847-858. doi:10.1177/0003065111418647

, Hanna Segal, Joan Riviere, and the early Wilfred Bion. Bleger's conception of the analytic frame and the role it plays in the psychoanalytic process is based …

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