Overview

The trials and tribulations of teaching are intimately connected with those of learning, and indeed have parallels with psychoanalysis in so far as this may in itself be considered a specialised mode of education. The variety of approaches recounted in this volume have been devised and refined over time and demonstrate the imaginative commitment and struggles of practitioners. Donald Meltzer’s hopes for the survival of psychoanalysis rested not on schools and didacticism but on the capacity of the next generation to learn from their own experience with the aid of their internal teachers. His writings are often said to be ‘difficult’ by students without personal experience of his teaching. Yet Meltzer himself said his motto was ‘simplicity’ and he never tried to be obscurantist, but concentrated increasingly on how to make complex matters ‘simple’, relevant, and digestible. This book shows how this aspiration to a complex simplicity can be conveyed by those who have absorbed it. Its relevance therefore goes beyond the conceptual framework of an individual analyst, and sheds new light on the task of enabling the psychoanalytic attitude in both students and teachers.  

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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:  

9781782201205

ISBN 10:   1782201203
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   28 February 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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