Maps for Psychoanalytic Exploration

Maps for Psychoanalytic Exploration brings together the author's main works, until now published only in Italian. They are made available to a wider readership in this volume through a translation into English by Shaun Whiteside, supported by the generosity of the members of the Melanie Klein Trust. In these chapters the author explores important implications of her father's ideas at different levels of psychic and social organisation. Her writing is very clear and, as Dr Anna Bauzzi, the Editor of the Italian edition, writes in her Introduction, the quality of it makes many of Bion's ideas more accessible, without any reduction of their complexity.

Preface , Foreword , Introduction , Why we can’t call ourselves Bionians (1987): notes on the life and work of W. R. Bion , Psychoanalysis is a “poppy field” (1988): “vision” in analysis; a divertissement about the vertex , Ps ? D (1981) , The role of the group with regard to the “unthinkability” of nuclear war (1987) , On “non-therapeutic” groups (1989): the use of the “task” as a defence against anxieties , Warum Krieg? (1990): the Freud-Einstein correspondence in the context of psychoanalytic social thought , Aggressiveness-bellicosity and belligerence (1991): passing from the mental state to active behaviour , The creation of mental models (1992): basic and ephemeral models , Experiences in Groups revisited (1992) , Some notes on the theories of structure and mental functioning underlying A Memoir of the Future by W. R. Bion (1993): festschrift for Francesco Corrao , From free-floating attention to dreamwork-a (1993) , Inside and outside the transference: more versions of the same story (1995)—or: history versus geography? , The concept of the individual in the work of W. R. Bion, with particular reference to Cogitations (1996) , The two sides of the caesura (1996) , Bion and the group: knowing, learning, teaching (1996) , Bion’s contribution to psychoanalysis (1996) , Bion: a Freudian innovator (1997) , Dreams (1998) , From formless to form (1998) , Laying low and saying (almost) nothing (1998)

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