Learning from Experience - Hardcover

Bion, Wilfred R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0876686870 ISBN 13: 9780876686874

Publisher: Jason Aronson Publishers, 1977

Synopsis

In this book Bion describes his use of the term 'alpha-function' to conceptualize how the data of emotional experience is processed and digested. This includes his thinking on 'contact barriers' and the bearing of 'projective identification' on the genesis of thought. A Jason Aronson Book

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About the Author

Wilfred Bion worked clinically with psychotic patients and made many significant contributions in this area, viewing schizophrenic thinking as a difficulty in the 'linking' of thoughts and objects. His concept of the 'container' and the 'contained' emphasizes the role of empathy in the infant-mother dyad. He used the term 'alpha function' to conceptualize how the data of emotional experience is processed and digested, and he developed the 'grid' to locate the development and transformation of psychic elements. Wilfred Bion died in 1979.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jason Aronson Publishers
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876686870
• ISBN 13: 9780876686874
• Binding: Hardcover