1st Edition
Bion's Sources The shaping of his paradigms
Aguayo, Foreword. Preface. Biographies of authors. Torres, Hinshelwood, Introduction. Torres, Gregariousness and the Mind: Bion and Trotter. An Update. Torres, Intuition and Ultimate Reality in Psychoanalysis: Bion’s Implicit use of Bergson and Whitehead’s Notions.Torres, Hinshelwood,The Wider Medical Culture of Bion’s Bio-Psycho-Social Framework. Hinshelwood, The Tavistock Years.Torres, Bion’s Concept of Proto-Mental and Bergson’s Views on Matter and Mind. Torres, The Psycho-Social Field Dynamics: Kurt Lewin and Bion. Pines, Hinshelwood,Bion’s Analysts. Vonofakos, Hinshelwood, Letters to John Rickman: Transition 1939-1951.Wieland, Freud’s Influence on Bion’s Thought – Links and Transformations. Noel-Smith, Thoughts; Thinking; and the Thinker: Bion’s Philosophical Encounter with Kant. Harris, Redway-Harris, Braithwaite and the Philosophy of Science. Massicotte.Notation, Invariants and Mathematical Models. ffytche, Bion's Aesthetic Turn. Hinshelwood, Torres, Conclusion. Index.
Biography
Nuno Torres is a clinical psychologist, researcher and lecturer at ISPA-IU in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a fellow of the Research Training Program of the International Psychoanalytic Association, a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research and a Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.
R.D. Hinshelwood is Professor in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has authored numerous books and articles. Observing Organisations (2000) was edited with Wilhelm Skogstad and is among a number of texts he has written on psychoanalytic applications to social science.
