Attention and interpretation / by Wilfred R. Bion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bion, Wilfred R. 1897-1979, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapist and patient.

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Psychoanalytic interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bion's central thesis in this volume is that for the study of people, whether individually or in groups, a cardinal requisite is accurate observation, accompanied by accurate appreciation and formulation of the observations so made. The study represents a further development of a theme introduced in the author's earlier works, particularly in Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963) and Transformations (1965) Bion's concern with the subject stems directly from his psycho-analytic experience and reflects his endeavor to overcome, in a scientific frame of reference, the immense difficulty of observing, assessing, and communicating non-sensuous experience. Here, he lays emphasis on he overriding importance of attending to the realities of mental phenomena as they manifest themselves in the individual or group under study. In influences that interpose themselves between the observer and the subject of his scrutiny giving rise to opacity, are examined, together with ways of controlling them.

Contents:

COVER; ATTENTION AND INTERPRETATION; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Medicine as a Model; Chapter 3 Reality Sensuous and Psychic; Chapter 4 Opacity of Memory and Desire; Chapter 5 Theories: Particular Instance or General Configuration; Chapter 6 The Mystic and the Group; Chapter 7 Container and Contained; Chapter 8 Vertices: Evolution; Chapter 9 Ultimate Reality; Chapter 10 Visual Images and Invariants; Chapter 11 Lies and the Thinker; Chapter 12 Container and Contained Trans formed; Chapter 13 Prelude to or Substitute for Achievement; REFERENCES; Index

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, c1970.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91110-6

0-429-89687-5

0-429-47210-2

1-282-90019-6

9786612900198

1-84940-026-1

9780429472107

OCLC:

694146799