On Mental Growth: Bion's Ideas that Transform Psychoanalytical Clinical Practice
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (809 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0736DDFVK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Psychoanalysis needs to include and incorporate emotional experiences that cannot immediately be apprehended by the senses, just as post-Newtonian physics has come to access infrasensorial phenomena. He took it to its limits, establishing a dialogue with other disciplines and integrating the arts and sciences. This dialogue generated innovating questions that transformed the psychoanalitical technique. The chapters containing theoretical and abstract notions are followed by discussions of contemporary film, used as clinical illustration. The Copernican revolution that Bion introduced is implied in his ideas of catastrophic change, transformation, and 'at-one-ment', which imply a new conception of analysis - not only as a process towards knowing oneself but also to be in 'at-one-ment' with what one is becoming. Bion extended our understanding o
Lia Pistiner de Cortiñas is internationally known as an author who conveys Bion’s ideas with a deep insight. The originality of his ideas and the new models he proposes demand an open-minded approach 'without memory, without desire, without understanding'. She is revisiting Bion’s hypotheses and developing her original perspective on reverie, the function of “dreaming”, mental growth, and the transformations these ideas introduce in the psychoanalytic clinical practice." (Marta Lilliecreutz, psychoanalyst, psychologist, and member of the Colegio de Psicólogos de Buenos Aires) . The inclusive amplitude of his ideas and intuition containing questions that went far beyond his time, without having a frame to contain them, made Bion a difficult author. He conceives the mind as an expanding universe evolving towards mental growth or deterioration. "Psychoanalysis owes Bion some
Lia Pistiner de Cortinas is a psychoanalyst, full member and training analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association (APDEBA) and fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She is also a psychologist (PhD) and a lawyer, having acquired degrees from Buenos Aires University. . She has a specialization in child and adolescent psychoa