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| Title: |
Wilfred Bion, His Life and Works 1897-1979 (paperback) |
| Published: |
1st January 1996 |
| ISBN: |
1 85343 330 6 |
| Price: |
£19.95 | $29.95 |
This is the first full biography and the first comprehensive exposition of one of the most interesting and influential figures in recent psychoanalysis. It is particularly welcome, since Bion's ideas are often found to be difficult of access. Bion made pioneering discoveries in officer selection, in psychiatric rehabilitation, and in founding the group relations movement. He then turned to individual psychoanalysis and wrote what many believe to be the most important body of work since Freud and Klein.
Dr. Bleandonu takes us throught Bion's personal and intellectual explorations and gives clear accounts of his key concepts, including work groups and basic assumption groups; psychotic processes; the grid; epistemology, catastrophic change; abandonment of memory and desire; the mystic; ultimate truth. Finally, he guides the reader through the fantasy writings in the Memoir of the Future, the masterpiece that is Bion's autobiography, and his final writings, including the posthumous Cogitations. The book is a tour de force..
"Gerard Bleandonu has made an extraordinary inclusive attempt to cover the ground from the early work on groups (and even before), to the very last work on the fictionalization of psychoanalytic theory. It is, in a relatively short book, and with a glittering clarity of style, an impressive achievement."
- from the Foreword by R. D. Hinshelwood
Author: Gerard Bleandonu
Translated by:Claire Pajaczkowska |
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