On Mental Growth: Bion's Ideas That Transform Psychoanalytical Clinical Practice

ISBN-13: 9781782203803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 228 str.

Pistiner de Cortinas Lia; Lia Pistiner De Cortinas

Opis

Psychoanalysis is indebted to Bion for some of its most original moments. He took it to its limits, establishing a dialogue with other disciplines, arts and science. This dialogue generated innovating questions that transformed the psychoanalytical technique. Bion conceives the mind as a universe expanding, and psychoanalysis as a powerful, disruptive idea. His hypotheses transform psychoanalytical clinical practice through its transformative model of mental growth. Bion extends our understanding of protomental and pre-natal phenomena, the mysterious transformations in hallucinosis, and the role of psychoanalytical intuition.

Psychoanalysis needs to include and incorporate emotional experiences that cannot immediately be apprehended by the senses, just as post-Newtonian physics has come to access infrasensorial phenomena. The Copernican revolution that Bion introduced is implied in his ideas of catastrophic change, transformations, and -at-one-ment-, which imply a new conception of analysis--not only as a process towards knowing oneself, but also to be in at-one-ment with what one is becoming. The chapters containing theoretical and abstract notions are followed by discussions of contemporary film, used as clinical illustration. The final chapter, concerning the primitive mind in Bion, has an original approach with its elaboration of the concept of -tropisms-.

Spis treści

On Mental Growth -- Preface -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION The ultrasensorial and infrasensorial spectrum: the extension of the psychoanalytical map of the mind -- Bion: the thinker and his work -- Differentiation between the psychotic and the non-psychotic parts of the personality -- Projective identification: realistic, communicative, and hypertrophic modalities -- An illustration of the ideas in Chapter Three used as clinical material through the film Pi -- The origin and nature of thinking -- Illustration of the ideas about the origin and nature of thought using the film Twelve Angry Men -- Learning from Experience: alpha function and reverie -- The matrix functions of thinking: myths, dreams, and models -- The function of dreams and myths as instruments with which to investigate mental life -- A theory of knowing—dreaming—thinking: emotional links and the container—contained relationship -- Transformations -- The difference between reparation and transformation -- Tropisms and mental growth

O autorze

Lia Pistiner de Cortinas is a psychoanalyst, full member and training analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association (APDEBA), and fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She has a specialisation in child and adolescent psychoanalysis. She is also a psychologist (PhD) and a lawyer, having acquired degrees from Buenos Aires University.