Wild thoughts searching for a thinker : a clinical application of W. R. Bion's theories / Rafael E. Lopez Corvo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

López Corvo, Rafael E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bion, Wilfred R.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2006.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This is essentially a clinical book that explores the connections between some of Bion's novel theories and those from Classical Psychoanalysis, mainly contributions from Freud, Klein and Winnicott. It also represents a substantial endeavour to make Bion not only more accessible to readers, but also and very important, to see his theories at work, in direct practical use during the here and now interaction throughout the consulting hour. Clinicians and theoreticians interested in Bions work as well as in psychoanalysis in general, will find the original approach used in this book extremely val

Contents:

COVER; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Murdering the mind.From the perspective of Bion's container-contained theory; CHAPTER TWO: The forgotten self.With the use of Bion's theory of negative links; CHAPTER THREE: Preconceptual traumas and the "internal traumatic object".From the point of view of Bion's concept of "caesura"; CHAPTER FOUR: Self envy.From the point of view of "part objects" and "link" theory; CHAPTER FIVE: "Nameless terror"; CHAPTER SIX: Murdering "gangs" and narcissistic conglomerates.From the point of view of Bion's saturated-unsaturated theory

CHAPTER SEVEN: Excessive projective identificationCHAPTER EIGHT: The relativity of the vertex.From the point of view of a binocular vision; CHAPTER NINE: The unconscious.Denouncing consciousness's fear of truth; CHAPTER TEN: Interpreting or translating the unconscious?; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The three faces of the preconscious.From the point of view of Bion's theory of functions; CHAPTER TWELVE: Listening to "O"; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: "O" or countertransference?; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Using the Grid; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Dreams: stray thoughts in search of a thinker; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.

ISBN:

0-429-92405-4

0-429-90982-9

0-429-48505-0

1-283-24944-8

9786613249449

1-84940-527-1

9780429485053

OCLC:

748242054