Main description:

This book presents the clinical application of Bion's ideas and deals with the author's personal analytic experience, which echoes the experience of other practising analysts. It examines the cultural and historical antecedents, especially including the philosophical and scientific points of view.

Contents:

About the Author -- Preface -- Extensions into the Realm of Minus -- Introduction -- The realm of Minus and the negative -- Clinical sources -- The hypothesis: a versus link -- Here and Now -- Bion's Trilogy and its reception -- Analytic Function -- Bion's contributions to the formulation of analytic function -- An analytic "compass" and "sextant" -- "Binocular vision" and the practice of psychoanalysis -- "Geography" to detect triadic syndromes -- An anti-alpha function