On Mental Growth: Bion's Ideas that Transform Psychoanalytical Clinical Practice
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0736DDFVK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 578 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Lia Pistiner de Cortinas is a psychoanalyst, full member and training analyst of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytical Association (APDEB
Bion extended our understanding of protomental and pre-natal phenomena, the mysterious transformations in hallucinosis, and the role of psychoanalytical intuition. This dialogue generated innovating questions that transformed the psychoanalitical technique. Psychoanalysis needs to include and incorporate emotional experiences that cannot immediately be apprehended by the senses, just as post-Newtonian physics has come to access infrasensorial phenomena. Psychoanalysis is indebted to Bion for some of its most original moments. The final chapter, concerning the primitve mind in Bion, has an original approach with its elaboration of the concept of 'tropisms'.. The chapters containing theoretical and abstract notions are followed by discussions of contemporary film, used as clinical illustration. His hypotheses significantly developed psychoanalytical clinical practice through its transformative model of mental growth. He took it to its limits, establishing a dialogue with other disciplines and integrating the arts and sciences. The Copernican revolution that Bion introduced is implied in his ideas of catastrophic change, transformation, and 'at-one-ment', which imply a new conception of analysis - not only as a process towards knowing oneself but also to be in 'at-one-ment' with what one is becoming. Bion conceived of the mind as a universe expanding, and psychoanalysis as a powerful, disruptive idea
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. "Psychoanalysis owes Bion some of its most original contributions. Lia Pistiner de Cortiñas is internationally known as an author who conveys Bion’s ideas with a deep insight. The originality of his ideas and the new models he proposes demand an open-minded approach 'without memory, without desire, without understanding'. She is revisiting Bion’s hypotheses and developing her original p