' This dictionary is] to be used as a -reference book-, as an indispensable partner and a guide in the adventure of the fascinating discovery, although highly dense, complex and frequently frustrating, of Wilfred Ruprecht Bion's great legacy to psychoanalysis.- Rafael Lopez-Corvo, from the Introduction.

Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker: A Clinical Application of W. E. Bion's Theories uses several of Bion's contributions to psychoanalytic theory in order to evaluate, from a clinical perspective, -classical- psychoanalytic concepts such as narcissism, transference and countertransference, interpretation, the false self, and the unconscious in its relation to consciousness.

In combining Bion's theory with practical applications and clinical observations, Lopez-Corvo has not only created an interesting and penetrating analysis of Bion's theories that provides a wonderful...

This book offers an original conception of trauma and of the working mind that has not been previously presented. It is mostly based on essentials taken from Bion's contributions. All human beings are fatalistically marked by the presence and eventual disappearance of primary part-objects. Many of these -presence-absences- are temporary events, but others will overcome Freud's -protective shield- and become permanent, amounting to an enduring distress or -pre-conceptual trauma-. Like the Mad Hatter's teatime in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, pre-conceptual traumas become an eternal...

This book explores the concept of -pre-conceptual trauma-, drawing in particular on the pioneering research of Wilfred Bion. A comparison is established between two different groups of individuals: five well-known dictators and five famous creative individuals. The authors have defined -pre-conceptual traumas- as ubiquitous experiences that all human beings go through during the first years of their lives, when a temporary absence changes into a permanent presence, determining the outcome of what any individual might do or perform in the future. Pre-conceptual traumas split the mind into two...