Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision

by Wilfred R. Bion, Joseph Aguayo, Barnet Malin

Overview

Wilfred Bion's unpublished lectures at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in April in 1967 represent a unique opportunity for students either new to or continuing in the study of the author's unique psychoanalytic vertex. Here one can both read - and hear - the author's clear exposition of his clinical and theoretical thinking to an audience of primarily Freudian trained American analysts, most of whom were new to his ideas. The first lecture sets out the author's ideas on 'memory and desire' in a paper that set the benchmark in the origins of contemporary Kleinian clinical technique. The author discusses the various factors that facilitate optimal listening receptivity in the analyst, for example how one differentiates the 'K' link vis-a-vis 'transformations in O.' In the second lecture, the author defined projective identification, container/contained and 'beta elements'- and how these ideas serve as an orienting template for the analyst's understanding of 'proto-mental'states of mind, either in psychotic, borderline or neurotic patients. He clarifies these ideas while engaging with the queries of renowned American analysts, such as Ralph Greenson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780491943
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/15/2013
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Joseph Aguayo holds UCLA doctorates in both Clinical Psychology and European History. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, and is in full-time private practice in West Los Angeles.

Barnet D. Malin is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Santa Monica, CA. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA-NPI Geffen School of Medicine, and a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California and the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, CA. He has authored several papers on topics including shame, envy and rage, Kohut and Lacan, and others.

Table of Contents

Foreword , Introduction , First Seminar—12 April 1967 , Second Seminar—14 April 1967 , Third Seminar—17 April 1967 , Fourth Seminar—19 April 1967 , Psychoanalytic Case Presentation— 13 April 1967 , Wilfred R. Bion: Notes on Memory and Desire