Bion's dream : a reading of the autobiographies / Meg Harris Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Meg Harris, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979.

Bion, Wilfred R.

Psychoanalysts--Great Britain--Biography--History and criticism.

Psychoanalysts.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'This book offers a definitive reading of Bion's remarkable autobiographical writings from a perspective embedded in the poetry of the ages, that of the Romantics in particular. It is at once learned and, utterly freshly, able to explore the inside story of Bion's life and mind. The volume is a distillation and elaboration of the work of many years. Whilst ostensibly an extended commentary on the autobiographical works themselves, it is also, in its own right, a tour de force, engaging, as it does, with the heart of the matter: with the development of a psychoanalyst, of a life, a self, a mind, thoroughly inward with the "dark and sombre world of thought".'- Margot Waddell, psychoanalyst and consultant child psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgements; About The Author; Introduction; Chapter One: Remembering; Chapter Two: Counterdreaming: A Memoir of the Future; Chapter Three: The growing germ of thought: the influence on Bion of Milton and the Romantic poets; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-95) and index.

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

ISBN:

0-429-91147-5

0-429-47247-1

1-282-78051-4

9786612780516

1-84940-791-6

9780429472473

OCLC:

723944226