A Clinical Application of Bion's Concepts: Dreaming, Transformation, Containment and Change

ISBN-13: 9780367323875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 392 str.

P.C. Sandler

Opis

This work depicts clinical applications stemming from Dr Wilfred Ruprecht Bion's contributions to psychoanalysis. It may be used as a practical companion to The Language of Bion: A Dictionary of Concepts also by P.C. Sandler. Both constitute a natural arrangement of Bion's concepts; "natural" being the help the selected concepts may provide to any

Spis treści

Introduction -- Real Life is the Stuff Dreams are Made of -- A space-time context for Freud’s “Interpretation of Dreams” -- “The Interpretation of Dreams”: a scientific tradition and resistance to it -- Old wine in new bottles: authors reviving Freud’s psychoanalytic ethos -- Bion’s exploration of the “royal road” -- Functions of dreams -- Clinical illustrations -- Transformations and Invariants -- Observation and communication -- Clinical illustrations -- Container and Contained -- Bion’s theory of container and contained -- Empirical sources: container and contained in the clinic -- Catastrophic Change -- Catastrophic change or fear of change felt as catastrophe? -- When addiction means diminution: clinical illustrations

O autorze

Sandler, P.C.