Bion's Legacy to Groups: Selected Contributions from the International Centennial Conference on the Work of W. R. Bion Turin, July 1997

ISBN-13: 9780367104993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 128 str.

Talamo, Parthenope Bion

Opis

It is characteristic of some forms of scientific genius to alter not just what we see in the world, but how we see it - not just the view, but the lens. One thinks of Freud's discovery of the transference, or of Melanie Klein's attention to the play of children. Wilfred Bion's study of groups and group processes also has this quality. More than the content of what he saw and captured in the concepts of two modes of mental functioning in groups and in the differentiation of the basic assumptions, it was the way he saw or, more broadly, the way he sensed the emotional life of the individual in the group, and in the first instance his own, that opened up a quite new territory for exploration. Those of us whose practice takes place primarily in the institutional or social domain can find in his more psychoanalytic work seeds of new thought extending beyond the consulting room.Going "beyond the confines" might perhaps more generally stand as a metaphor for Bion's enterprise.

Spis treści

Foreword , Introduction , The internal establishment , Beyond Bion's Experiences in Groups: group relations research and learning , Are basic assumptions instinctive? , Destructiveness and creativity in organizational life: experiencing the psychotic edge , Schizophrenia from a group perspective , Oneness and Me-ness in the baG? , An attempt to apply Bion's alpha- and beta-elements to processes in society at large

O autorze

Franco Borgogno