On Mental Growth: Bion's Ideas that Transform Psychoanalytical Clinical Practice
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0736DDFVK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 389 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The originality of his ideas and the new models he proposes demand an open-minded approach 'without memory, without desire, without understanding'. "Psychoanalysis owes Bion some of its most original contributions. He conceives the mind as an expanding universe evolving towards mental growth or deterioration. Lia Pistiner de Cortiñas is internationally known as an author who conveys Bion’s ideas with a deep insight. The inclusive amplitude of his ideas and intuition containing questions that went far beyond his time, without having a frame to contain them, made Bion a difficult author. She is revisitin
The Copernican revolution that Bion introduced is implied in his ideas of catastrophic change, transformation, and 'at-one-ment', which imply a new conception of analysis - not only as a process towards knowing oneself but also to be in 'at-one-ment' with what one is becoming. The chapters containing theoretical and abstract notions are followed by discussions of contemporary film, used as clinical illustration. This dialogue generated innovating questions that transformed the psychoanalitical technique. Psychoanalysis is indebted to Bion for some of its most original moments. Psychoanalysis needs to include and incorporate emotional experiences that cannot immediately be apprehended by the senses, just as post-Newtonian physics has come to access infrasensorial phenomena. Bion extended our understanding of protomental and pre-natal phenomena, the mysterious transformations in hallucinosis, and the role of psychoanalytical intuition. The final chapter, concerning the primitve mind in Bion, has an original approach with i
. She is also a psychologist (PhD) and a lawyer, having acquired degrees from Buenos Aires University. Lia Pistiner de Cortinas is a psychoanalyst, full member and training analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association (APDEBA) and fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She has a specialization in child and adolescent psychoanalysis