The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil (The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032553464 ISBN 13: 9781032553467

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil is comprised of thirteen transcriptions of supervisions Wilfred Bion conducted during his three teaching and speaking tours of Brazil.

During these tours, Bion conducted over 130 public supervisions of analytic cases in English in which he explained his theories and illustrated their clinical application. Following on from the first volume, Bion in Brazil: Supervisions and Commentaries (2017), this book presents each supervision in full, with an accompanying commentary written by a senior Brazilian psychoanalyst and Bionian scholar. Arguably, no psychoanalyst has had as much impact on psychoanalytic development in Brazil than Bion, and this collection of his seminars, presented here for the first time, acts as a historical document and testament to his legacy in contemporary analysis.

The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil provides a unique opportunity for contemporary psychoanalysts, candidates, and students to hear the distinctive ‘voice’ of Bion, observe how he listens in conversation, and learn how he would intervene in and interpret a clinical situation.

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About the Author

Howard B. Levine is a private practitioner in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He is editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series, the author of Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (2021) and has edited and co-edited Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (2013), André Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (2018), The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (2021), and The Freudian Matrix of André Green (2023).

Gisčle de Mattos Brito is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Psychoanalytic Society of Minas Gerais (SBPMG), Brazil, a full member of the Psychoanalytic Society of Săo Paulo (SBPSP), Brazil, and a former President of SBPMG. She co-edited the first volume of Bion in Brazil (2017) and is the author of many book chapters and scientific papers published in regional, national, and international psychoanalytic journals. Since 2009, she has coordinated the study of Bion's Supervision Seminars at the Society of Săo Paulo.

José Américo Junqueira de Mattos is a member and Training and Supervising Analyst of the Brazilian Society of Psychoanalysis of Săo Paulo and the Brazilian Society of Psychoanalysis of Ribeirăo Preto. He has published many papers both in Brazil and abroad and is responsible for the preservation of Bion’s Brazilian Supervisions. Since the beginning of his career, he has been interested in the ideas of Bion, who was his analyst.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032553464
• ISBN 13: 9781032553467
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Levine Howard B., De Mattos Brito Gisčle, Junqueira De Mattos José Américo