Wilfred Bion

From the Institute of Psychoanalysis website by the British Psychoanalytical Society:

Bion is best known for the work stemming from his psychoanalysis of patients in psychotic states, by building on and expanding Klein's concepts of projective identification and the two positions, paranoid-schizoid and depressive, in dynamic equilibrium, and by introducing the notion of Container-Contained (♀ ♂); and by elaborating a theory of thinking with emotional experience at its core. His best-known work, in addition to Experiences in Groups and other papers, are the four books of the sixties: Learning from Experience, Elements of Psycho-Analysis, Transformations, and Attention and Interpretation.

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• Bion and Thoughts Too Deep For Words
• Experiences in Groups
• The Nature of the Therapeutic Action of Psycho analysis