Overview

Wilfred Bion always emphasised that he had no desire to implant his thoughts in others but hoped instead to inspire their own process of self-knowledge or ‘becoming’, which can only take place in the conviction that the mind ‘exists’ and is not merely a figure of speech. He spoke of ‘intercessors’ and cited one of his own teachers, Socrates, on the need to distinguish phantoms from real thoughts, intelligence from wisdom. Like psychoanalysis itself, teaching is a form of learning from experience, conducted in the context of a joint search with students or colleagues, or indeed patients. A good teacher is essentially a student, and ‘What are you when you cease to be a student of psychoanalysis?” as Bion said. Teaching the work of one’s teachers can be an especially fruitful means of internalising them, and an invitation to others. The contributions in this book are international and varied in their approach, and have been worked out over time, so offer an opportunity for current and future teachers to experiment and analyse their own methods. Style, cultural context, personal bias and interests are all important in making the teaching situation a live and authentic one from which the participants, and likewise the reader, can select what speaks to them.

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Author:   Meg Harris Williams (Harris Meltzer Trust)
Publisher:   Karnac Books
Imprint:   Karnac Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.398kg
ISBN:  

9781782201199

ISBN 10:   178220119
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 June 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Meg Harris Williams 1. Wilfred Bion: clinical thinker Chris Mawson 2. A go-between Claudio Neri 3. Identifying with existential unease Antonello Correale 4. Teaching Bion, living life Luiz Carlos Uchôa Junqueira, Jnr. 5. Building a ‘Bion container’ Lee Rather 6. Maintaining a relation to O Charles W. Dithrich 7. Group learning Angel Costantino 8. Tiger stripes and student voices Michael Eigen 9. Dreaming the patient into being: a methodology for clinical seminars Howard B. Levine 10. Wilfred Bion: a model kit Leandro Stitzman 11. Teaching Bion’s teachings R. D. Hinshelwood 12. Teaching Bion in Russia Robert Harris 13. Bion’s adventures in a country without psychoanalysis Igor Romanov 14. On communicating the style of living analysis Dawn Farber 15. Teaching through clinical example Dorothy Hamilton 16. Teaching theory in the context of child analysis: a case study Gertraud Diem-Wille 17. The living mind – Bion’s vision Meg Harris Williams 18. The individual in the group: on learning to work with the psychoanalytical method Martha Harris References Index

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Meg Harris Williams, a writer and artist, studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, and has had a lifelong psychoanalytic education, working closely with Donald Meltzer. She has written and lectured extensively in the UK and abroad on psychoanalysis and literature. She is a visiting lecturer for AGIP and at the Tavistock Centre in London, and an Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California. She is married with four children and lives in Farnham, Surrey.

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