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Title Building on Bion-- branches : contemporary developments and applications of Bion's contributions to theory and practice / edited by Robert M. Lipgar and Malcolm Pines.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series International library of group analysis ; 21
International library of group analysis ; 21.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction; Part 1: Working with Groups; 1. Bion's Legacy to Median and Large Groups; 2. The large Groups and its Conductor; Part 2: Application- Putting Bion's Ideas to Work; 3. From Groups to Group Relations; 4. Alcaholics Anonymous as Medical Treatment for Alcaholism; 5. 'Attacks on Linking' and 'Alpha Function'; 6. Learning at the Edges between Knowing and Not-knowing; 7. Narcissism v. Social-ism Governing Thinking in Social Systems; Part 3: Bion as Pioneer in Thinking, Learning and Transmitting Knowledge; 8. Transcending the Caesura; 9. 'So you Want to Write a Fugue?'
Summary The enduring influence of Bion's work - the many rich applications of his ideas to group therapy, group dynamics and organisational dynamics in the present day and looking to the future - is the central theme of this book. Chapters by distinguished international contributors from the fields of psychoanalysis, group analysis, management consultancy and social science cover work with large groups, Bion and the Tavistock conferences, and his ideas about thinking and learning, dreams and mentality. They clearly demonstrate Bion's originality and passion as he sought the distinctive essence of psyc.
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Subject Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979.
Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979.
Bion, Wilfred R., 1897-1979 (Bion, Wilfred Ruprecht)
Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychotherapy, Group.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Lipgar, Robert M., 1928-2018.
Pines, Malcolm.
Other Form: Print version: Building on Bion-- branches. London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley, 2003 1843107112 (OCoLC)50527804
ISBN 0585480141 (electronic book)
9780585480145 (electronic book)
9781846423697
1846423694
9781843107118
1843107112
1283904098 (e-book)
9781283904094 (e-book)