Studies in Extended Metapsychology: Clinical Applications of Bion's Ideas

Author(s) : Donald Meltzer

Studies in Extended Metapsychology: Clinical Applications of Bion's Ideas

Book Details

  • Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
  • Published : 2018
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 224
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 93479
  • ISBN 13 : 9781912567157
  • ISBN 10 : 1912567156

Table of Contents

Foreword
Meg Harris Williams

Introduction

1. Field or phase – a debate on psychoanalytical modes of thought

2. What is an emotional experience?

3. A Klein-Bion model for evaluating psychosomatic states

4. The protomental apparatus and soma-psychotic phenomena

5. The conceptual distinction between projective identification (Klein) and container-contained (Bion)

6. Clinical use of the concept of vertices: multiplication of vertices as a method reality of testing; shifting of vertices as a mode of defence

7. The limits of language

8. Facts and fictions

9. An enquiry into lies, their genesis and relation to hallucination

10. Clinical application of Bion’s concept ‘transformations in hallucinosis’

11. Clinical application of Bion’s concept ‘reversal of alpha-function’

12. Psychotic illness in early childhood: ten years on from Explorations in Autism

13. A one-year-old goes to day nursery – a parable of confusing times

14. Family patterns and cultural educability

15. Concerning the perception of one’s own attributes and its relation to language development

16. On turbulence

17. A Swiftean diatribe

18. Denouement

References
Index

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