On Mental Growth: Bion's Ideas that Transform Psychoanalytical Clinical Practice - Softcover

Pistiner De Cortinas, Lia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178220380X ISBN 13: 9781782203803

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This book represents some of Wilfred Bion's basic concepts, which are reconsidered from the perspective of mental growth. It elucidates Bion's significant legacy of the differentiation between the psychotic and non-psychotic parts of the personality and its evolution in his writings.

About this title

About the Author:

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. She is also a psychologist (PhD) and a lawyer, having acquired degrees from Buenos Aires University.

Review:

"Psychoanalysis owes Bion some of its most original contributions. He conceives the mind as an expanding universe evolving towards mental growth or deterioration. The originality of his ideas and the new models he proposes demand an open-minded approach 'without memory, without desire, without understanding'. 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. Lia Pistiner de Cortiñas is internationally known as an author who conveys Bion’s ideas with a deep insight. She is revisiting Bion’s hypotheses and developing her original perspective on reverie, the function of “dreaming”, mental growth, and the transformations these ideas introduce in the psychoanalytic clinical practice." (Marta Lilliecreutz, psychoanalyst, psychologist, and member of the Colegio de Psicólogos de Buenos Aires 2017-06-16)

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 178220380X
• ISBN 13: 9781782203803
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228