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Learning from Experience - Softcover

Book 40 of 40: Maresfield Library

Bion, Wilfred R.

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9781568212548: Learning from Experience
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1568212542 ISBN 13: 9781568212548
Publisher: Jason Aronson, 1994

Synopsis

In this book Bion describes his use of the term "alpha-function" to conceptualize how the data of emotional experience is processed and digested. This includes his thinking on "contact barriers" and the bearing of "projective identification" on the genesis of thought.

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About the Author

Wilfred Bion worked clinically with psychotic patients and made many significant contributions in this area, viewing schizophrenic thinking as a difficulty in the "linking" of thoughts and objects. His concept of the "container" and the "contained" emphasizes the role of empathy in the infant-mother dyad. He used the term "alpha function" to conceptualize how the data of emotional experience is processed and digested, and he developed the "grid" to locate the development and transformation of psychic elements. Wilfred Bion died in 1979.

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Publisher
Jason Aronson
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1568212542
ISBN 13 
9781568212548
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
126
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