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The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series


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The contributions of Wilfred R. Bion are among the most cited in the analytic literature. Their appeal lies not only in their content and explanatory value, but in their generative potential. Although Bion’s training and many of his clinical instincts were deeply rooted in the classical tradition of Melanie Klein, his ideas have a potentially universal appeal. Rather than emphasizing a particular psychic content (e.g., Oedipal conflicts in need of resolution; splits that needed to be healed; preconceived transferences that must be allowed to form and flourish, etc.), he tried to help open and prepare the mind of the analyst (without memory, desire or theoretical preconception) for the encounter with the patient.

Bion’s formulations of group mentality and the psychotic and non-psychotic portions of the mind, his theory of thinking and emphasis on facing and articulating the truth of one’s existence so that one might truly learn first hand from one’s own experience, his description of psychic development (alpha function and container/contained) and his exploration of O are "non-denominational" concepts that defy relegation to a particular school or orientation of psychoanalysis. Consequently, his ideas have taken root in many places…. and those ideas continue to inform many different branches of psychoanalytic inquiry and interest.

It is with this heritage and its promise for the future developments of psychoanalysis in mind that we present The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series. This series gathers together under newly emerging and continually evolving contributions to psychoanalytic thinking that rest upon Bion’s foundational texts and explore and extend the implications of his thought.

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Bion in the Consulting Room An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry

Bion in the Consulting Room: An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Joseph Aguayo, Robert Hinshelwood, Sira Dermen, Nicola Abel-Hirsch
August 02, 2024

Bion in the Consulting Room addresses the long-unanswered question of Bion’s clinical and supervisorial technique and examines the way Bion’s conceptual model and clinical practices informed his theoretical work. As Bion wrote about technique so rarely, the authors set about looking at many of his ...

Reading Bion’s Transformations

Reading Bion’s Transformations

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Luis Cláudio Figueiredo, Marina F R Ribeiro, Gina Tamburrino
August 01, 2024

Reading Bion´s Transformations is an in-depth reading of Bion’s 1965 work, Transformations, and investigates the epitemiological concept of ‘O’ introduced by Bion. Throughout the book, Bion’s conceptual and unconventional text is discussed step-by-step, with a focus on the first three and last ...

The Bion Seminars at the A-Santamaría Association Clinical and Theoretical Explorations

The Bion Seminars at the A-Santamaría Association: Clinical and Theoretical Explorations

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Howard Levine, Jani Santamaría Linares
July 11, 2024

The Bion Seminars at the A-Santamaria Association offers readers insightful analyses and commentaries on Bion’s key papers and books, as well as providing a unique set of discussions and explorations of many of Bion’s central concepts and foundational texts. This diverse collection of essays brings...

The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil Supervisions and Commentaries

The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil: Supervisions and Commentaries

1st Edition

Edited By Howard B. Levine, Gisèle de Mattos Brito, José Américo Junqueira de Mattos
December 20, 2023

The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil is comprised of thirteen transcriptions of supervisions Wilfred Bion conducted during his three teaching and speaking tours of Brazil. During these tours, Bion conducted over 130 public supervisions of analytic cases in English in which he explained his...

Recognising, Understanding and Treating Nameless States A Psychoanalytic Exploration

Recognising, Understanding and Treating Nameless States: A Psychoanalytic Exploration

1st Edition

By Bernd Nissen
December 04, 2023

In this captivating volume, Bernd Nissen considers the multiplicity of nameless states, and the impact of their discovery on psychoanalytic theory and practice. The nameless is considered through a variety of lenses: trauma, unrepresented states, autistoid/autistic states, breakdown, non-existence,...

Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion

Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion

1st Edition

By Joseph Aguayo
April 28, 2023

Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion takes a fresh approach to this much revered analyst, focusing on the unique contributions to be found in his analytical and supervisorial work and developing of received Kleinian theory. Starting from his childhood in India and his schooldays, through ...

Bion and Intuition in the Clinical Setting

Bion and Intuition in the Clinical Setting

1st Edition

Edited By Antònia Grimalt
June 10, 2022

Bion and Intuition in the Clinical Setting focuses on Bion’s investigation of the intuitive approach to clinical data and lays out how Bion’s method encouraged constant effort by the analysts to relinquish its reliance on sensory and conceptual-verbal faculties to make room for intuition. Based on...

Bion, Intuition and the Expansion of Psychoanalytic Theory

Bion, Intuition and the Expansion of Psychoanalytic Theory

1st Edition

Edited By Antònia Grimalt
June 10, 2022

Bion, Intuition and the Expansion of Psychoanalytic Theory illuminates how Bion’s work on intuition has changed the landscape of contemporary psychoanalysis through his understanding of its supra-scientific and non-sub-scientific condition. Based on the work of the biannual Bion conference, this ...

Bion’s Legacy in São Paulo Theoretical Applications from the São Paulo Psychoanalytic Society (SBPSP)

Bion’s Legacy in São Paulo: Theoretical Applications from the São Paulo Psychoanalytic Society (SBPSP)

1st Edition

Edited By Evelise Marra, Cecil Rezze
February 25, 2022

This collection illuminates the legacy of Wilfred R. Bion in Brazil, illustrating Bion’s continued influence on the work of the São Paulo Psychoanalytic Society (SBPSP), how Bionian ideas are applied in contemporary psychoanalysis, and how current practice has evolved over time. Evelise de Souza ...

Bion and Primitive Mental States Trauma and the Symbiotic Link

Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link

1st Edition

By Judy K. Eekhoff
December 31, 2021

This clinically focused book explores W. R. Bion’s thinking on primitive and unrepresented mental states and shows how therapists can work effectively with traumatized patients who are difficult to reach. The author illuminates how trauma survivors suffer from direct access to primal ...

The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro Theoretical Analysis and Clinical Application

The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro: Theoretical Analysis and Clinical Application

1st Edition

Edited By Howard B. Levine
December 23, 2021

This exciting and original collection explores Antonino Ferro’s post-Bionian Field Theory, expanding upon the analytic work of Wilfred Bion to focus on the intersubjective development of psychic regulatory processes. Written by members of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies who have ...

Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious

Bion and Thoughts Too Deep for Words: Psychoanalysis, Suggestion, and the Language of the Unconscious

1st Edition

By Robert Caper
March 11, 2020

Distinguishing psychoanalysis, as a search for truth, from suggestion, as a cure for symptoms, this book addresses the scientific status of psychoanalysis. Citing research into the relationship of infants to their caretakers, the author discusses evidence that unconscious communication is present ...

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