Wilfred Bion was a potent and original contributor to psychoanalysis. He was one of the first to analyse patients in psychotic states using an unmodified analytic technique; he extended existing theories of projective processes and developed new conceptual tools.
Chris Mawson will talk about three of Bion's most clinically relevant ideas, and will illustrate each of them using examples from analytic work.
Chris Mawson: A training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice as a psychoanalyst. Initially Chris worked with adolescents and children, first at the Tavistock Clinic and later in the Child Psychiatry Department of the Paddington Green Children's Hospital in the days when children at that clinic were offered intensive psychoanalytic treatment. He now works in private practice. As well as the clinical practice of psychoanalysis he is interested in the study of groups and organisations from a psychoanalytic perspective, particularly that pursued by the British Group Relations orientation. Currently he is editing the Complete Works of Bion for Karnac Books, which will include a number of previously unpublished works.
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