The Tavistock Seminars, previously unpublished, consists of eight talks W.R. Bion gave at the Tavistock Clinic between 1976 and 1979. Topics explored include the importance of observation; dreams; art and psychoanalysis; and the significance of time in psychoanalysis. In addition, this volume includes an illuminating interview of Bion by Anthony G. Banet in 1976. --- from the publisher About the Author Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1897–1979) was born in India in the days of the British Raj, and was sent to school in England at the age of eight. He left school just before he was eighteen to join the Tank Corps and served in France where he was awarded the DSO, the Legion of Honour, and was mentioned in dispatches. After the war he read History at Queen’s College, Oxford, studied medicine at University College London and then turned to psychoanalysis, to which he devoted the remaining fifty years of his life, the last twelve being spent in California.
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