Bion's Legacy to Groups: Selected Contributions from the International Centennial Conference on the Work of W. R. Bion Turin, July 1997 - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0367104997 ISBN 13: 9780367104993

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

It is characteristic of some forms of scientific genius to alter not just what we see in the world, but how we see it - not just the view, but the lens. One thinks of Freud's discovery of the transference, or of Melanie Klein's attention to the play of children. Wilfred Bion's study of groups and group processes also has this quality. More than the content of what he saw and captured in the concepts of two modes of mental functioning in groups and in the differentiation of the basic assumptions, it was the way he saw or, more broadly, the way he sensed the emotional life of the individual in the group, and in the first instance his own, that opened up a quite new territory for exploration. Those of us whose practice takes place primarily in the institutional or social domain can find in his more psychoanalytic work seeds of new thought extending beyond the consulting room.Going "beyond the confines" might perhaps more generally stand as a metaphor for Bion's enterprise.

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About the Author:

Franco Borgogno

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0367104997
• ISBN 13: 9780367104993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Borgogno Franco, Merciai Silvio A., Talamo Parthenope Bion