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A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

by JamesS.Grotstein (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $60.45
Synopsis

The author surveys Bion's publications and elaborates on his key contributions in depth while also critiquing them. The scope of this work is to synopsize, synthesize, and extend Bion's works in a reader-friendly manner. The book presents his legacy - his most important ideas for psychoanalysis. These ideas need to be known by the mental health profession at large. This work highlights and defines the broader and deeper implications of his works.It presents his ideas faithfully and also uses his ideas as launching pads for the author's conjectures about where his ideas point.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 395
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Karnac Books
Published: 13 Jul 2007
ISBN 10: 1855754487
ISBN 13: 9781855754485

Media Reviews
'...this is a book that I had been waiting to have for a long time - a book that was in my 'memoirs of the future'. This book is a hologram of Bion's thought that can be deconstructed in its constituent parts and then reconstructed again and again. It is Grotstein's dream about Bion, but a dream that enriches his thought, transforms it and makes it more readily available.It is a book that I will certainly use with my students in seminars on Bion's thought, and I will encourage others to do the same. It is a book, in my opinion, that all analysts, including those of a different orientation, should take most seriously. It is abook that dares to disturb that universe of knowledge that any reader had before reading it. It is a book which is 'thought for thinking', but also reverie, as well as representing the closest we can get, for the time being at least, to the global 'O' of Bion's thought.' - Antonino Ferro, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, (2008).
Author Bio
James S. Grotstein, M.D. was Professor of Psychiatry, U.C.L.A School of Medicine, and a training and supervising analyst at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute and at The Psychoanalytic Centre of California. He was a member of the editorial board of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' and was past North American Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He published over 250 papers and was the author or editor/co-editor of numerous books.