The complete works of Wilfred Ruprecht Bion will be available in a coherent and corrected format. Comprising sixteen volumes bound in green cloth, this edition is being brought together and edited by Chris Mawson with the assistance of Francesca Bion. Incorporating many corrections to previously published works it will also feature previously unpublished papers. Including a full set of indexes and editorial introductions to all the works, these volumes will be a useful and valuable aid to psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians, and all those interested in studying and making use of Bion's thinking. Volume I Introduction and General Preface: I Scope II Structure III Acknowledgements The Long Weekend: 1897-1919 (Part of a Life) Volume II All My Sins Remembered: Another part of a Life and The Other Side of Genius: Family Letters Volume III WOSB Notes: extract on groups (Summer 1943) War Memoirs 1917-1919 The War of Nerves (1940) Psychiatry at a time of crisis (1948) Volume IV Group Methods of Treatment (1948) Experiences in Groups and Other Papers (1961) Learning from Experience (1962) Volume V Elements of Psycho-Analysis (1963) Transformations (1965) Volume VI Attention and Interpretation (1970) Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis (1967) Volume VII Interview with Anthony Banet Jnr (1976) Interview with Dr Peck (April 1977) 1973 Sao Paulo Lectures 1974 Sao Paulo Lectures 1974 Rio de Janeiro Lectures Volume VIII 1975 Brasilia Seminars 1977 New York Seminars (April 1977) Volume IX 1978 Sao Paulo Seminars (April 1978) The Tavistock Seminars (June 1976 – March 1979) Volume X The Italian Seminars (1977) Paris Seminar (July 1978) Discussions and later papers Four Discussions (April 1976) Emotional Turbulence (1976) On a quotation from Freud (1976) Evidence (1976) Making the best of a bad job (1979) Volume XI A Memoir of the Future (I) Volume XII A Memoir of the Future (II) Volume XIII A Memoir of the Future (III) and expanded Key Volume XIV Cogitations Volume XV Review of K. R. Eisller’s Medical Orthodoxy and the Future of Psycho-Analysis Review of R.Slovenko’s Sexual Behavior and the Law Unpublished papers: 1961 The Conception of Man 1975 Break Up, Break Down, Break Through 1977 Facts: can we awake from them? 1977 New and Improved Each with Preface and editorial commentary Volume XVI General Indexes Notes about the author(s): Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was a British psychoanalyst. Bion 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 the Queen’s College, Oxford, studied medicine at University College, London, and then turned to psycho-analysis to which he devoted the remaining fifty years of his life, the last twelve being spent in California. A pioneer in group dynamics, he was associated with the 'Tavistock group', the group of pioneering psychologists that founded the Tavistock Institute in 1946 on the basis of their shared wartime experiences. He later wrote the influential Experiences in Groups, in 1961, an important guide for the group psychotherapy and encounter group movements beginning in the 1960s, and which quickly became a touchstone work for applications of group theory in a wide variety of fields. Bion's training included an analysis with Melanie Klein and he was was a potent and original contributor to psychoanalysis. He was one of the first to analyse patients in psychotic states using an unmodified analytic technique; he extended existing theories of projective processes and developed new conceptual tools. The degree of collaboration between Hanna Segal, Wilfred Bion and Herbert Rosenfeld in their work with psychotic patients during the late 1950s, and their discussions with Melanie Klein at the time, means that it is not always possible to distinguish their exact individual contributions to the developing theory of splitting, projective identification, unconscious phantasy and the use of countertransference. These three pioneering analysts not only sustained Klein’s clinical and theoretical approach, but deepened and expanded it, and his work continues to be found clinically relevant today, in the UK, North and South America, and across the world. Bion's writings, including the previously unpublished papers and additions to his Cogitations, collected together in the Complete Works, show that the clinical thrust of Bion’s work has clear lines of continuity with that of Melanie Klein, just as her work has an essential continuity with the later work of Freud. In Bion’s clinical work and supervision the goal remains insightful understanding of psychic reality through a disciplined experiencing of the transference and countertransference; the setting and the method – however much Bion’s terminology might suggest otherwise – remains rigorously psychoanalytic. Firm Sale, Import-to-Order |