Bion's Legacy to Groups

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Synopsis
'It is characteristic of some forms of scientific genius to alter not just what we see in the world, but how we see it - not just the view, but the lens. One thinks of Freud's discovery of the transference, or of Melanie Klein's attention to the play of children. Wilfred Bion's study of groups and group processes also has this quality. More than the content of what he saw and captured in the concepts of two modes of mental functioning in groups and in the differentiation of the basic assumptions, it was the way he saw or, more broadly, the way he sensed the emotional life of the individual in the group, and in the first instance his own, that opened up a quite new territory for exploration. Those of us whose practice takes place primarily in the institutional or social domain can find in his more psychoanalytic work seeds of new thought extending beyond the consulting room.Going "beyond the confines" might perhaps more generally stand as a metaphor for Bion's enterprise.
Copyright:
1998

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
128 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780429897269
Related ISBNs:
9780429472497, 9780367104993, 9780367104993, 9781855751880, 9781855751880, 9781855751880, 9780367104993, 9780429472497
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Psychology
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Edited by:
Franco Borgogno
Edited by:
Silvio A. Merciai
Edited by:
Parthenope Bion Talamo

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