The Language of Bion: A Dictionary of Concepts - Hardcover

Sandler, P.C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367328119 ISBN 13: 9780367328115

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Considering that introductory books cannot replace an author's original words, and that Bion's concepts are often found to be difficult to grasp, the author has compiled an unusual style of dictionary. He assembles relevant quotations from Bion's texts together with the meaning of concepts and their place in the history of their development. the

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About the Author

Paulo Cesar Sandler, MD, MSc, MhFAB, is a Training Analyst at the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanalise de Sao Paulo, Psychiatrist at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (IMREA) at the Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, and author of several books in Portuguese. He has written many papers and book chapters, some of which have been published in English and French. He has translated most of Bion's books and papers into Portuguese and has organized several international meetings on the work of Bion. Dr Sandler currently teaches in a post-graduate course at the University of Sao Paulo, and at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis of the SBPSP, giving courses about the work of Freud, Klein and Bion. He has worked in private psychoanalytic practice since 1974, having previously worked with psychotics in a traditional in-patient clinic, as well as in group-oriented community psychiatry, including epidemiology of mental disorders, in the local Public Health School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0367328119
• ISBN 13: 9780367328115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 868