W.R. Bion as Clinician: Steering Between Concept and Practice

This book provides a comprehensive guide to Wilfred Bion's clinical psychoanalytic work, tracing the influences on his development, practice, and evolution. It explores how Bion's early traumatic experiences shaped his attitudes and approach to effective clinical work and offers a clear guide to the practical applications of his theory for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and training.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 248 pages
Publication date: 29 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book, supported by meticulous close readings of his work, offers a comprehensive guide to the development, practice, and evolution of Wilfred Bion's clinical psychoanalytic work.

Beginning with the significance of Kant during Bion's years as a student, the author traces the key influences on Bion in his psychoanalytic and personal development, progressing through Bion's productive pre-psychoanalytic work based on social field theory, his well-known elaboration of Klein's schizoid mechanisms known as the theory of containment, and his deeply thoughtful clinical approach inspired later by an understanding of literary creativity.

Extending this unique emphasis on Bion's clinical work, rather than his theory, Hinshelwood also explores how Bion's early traumatic experiences helped shape his attitudes and approach to effective clinical work.

With comprehensive coverage of the key tenets of Bion's work, this should be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training who seek a clear guide to the practical applications of his theory.

Weight: 412g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032351513