Main description:

1. This volume is based on the premise of a 'new wave' in Bionian studies based on his clinical work;
2. Aguayo considers the entirety of Bion's clinical work, as well as his publications, to inform this comprehensive volume, highlighting his cross-modal, interdisciplinary thinking and the way this was informed by philosophy, mathematics, history and literature
3. The volume is designed to open new discussions on Bion's importance in a clinical - rather than merely theoretical - sphere

Contents:

Introduction: 'Orienting Towards Bion's Clinical Work' Part 1: Beginnings: Forays into Groups and Psychoanalysis of Psychosis 1. Bion's Early Life: India, Schooling in England, Soldiering in World War I and II; and Life as a Psychiatrist and Innovator of Group Methods of Psychotherapy 2. Prelude to Bion's Papers on Psychosis; Melanie Klein's Work on Psychosis and an Overview of his Papers on 'Psychosis' (1950-1959) 3. A Portal into Psychosis: 'The Imaginary Twin' (1950), and 'Notes on the Theory of Schizophrenia' (1954) 4. Bion as an Uneasy Kleinian Psychoanalyst. 'Development of Schizophrenic Thought' (1956), 'Differentiation of Psychotic from Non-Psychotic Personalities' (1957) 5. Further Clinical Contributions - Part I. 'On Arrogance' (1958a) and 'On Hallucination' (1958b) 6. Further Clinical Contributions - Part II. 'Attacks on Linking' (1959) Part II: Conceptualizing his Clinical Results 7. Bion's Incursions into Metapsychology: 'The Psychoanalytic Theory ofThinking' (1962a) 8. Learning from Experience - Part I (1962b) 9. Learning from Experience - Part II (1962b) 10. Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963); Transformations (1965); and 'Catastrophic Change' (1966) Part III: The Distillation of Clinical Experience and Everyday Practices 11. 'Notes on Memory and Desire' (1967a) 12. Seminars and Supervisions in Buenos Aires: The Continuing Case of the Stormy Borderline Patient (1968) 13. Clinical Work in Buenos Aires: Presentation of an Over Agreeable Young Male Analysand 14. Attention and Interpretation (1970) 15. 'Bion's Clinical Seminars - An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry. (1967-1978). A New Waves of Bion Studies?'