Main description:

* The first book length study on Bionian perspectives of intuition, aimed at analysts working in a clinical setting
* Based on the 2019 Bion conference, this collection draws together the most cutting-edge work on intuition in a clinical setting, from a Bionian viewpoint
* Offers practical advice and guidance on how to implement an intuitive approach into one's own practice

Contents:

Introduction 1. Negation as a method for intuiting psychoanalytic discoveries: Bion's turning point in "notes on memory and desire" 2. The hidden side of the moon: understanding/misunderstanding. Bion, no memory, no desire 3. Group construction of intuition: fusionality and tenderness 4. Intuition, memory and desire 5. Intuitive: privileged tool to access the primordial mind 6. Intuitive comprehension and dreaming in child analysis 7. Intuition and analyst language: A language of emotion 8. The mystical experience in search of a session 9. Continuing to disturb the sleep of the world; Bion's intuitions on dreaming and reverie 10. Intuition and texture in reverie 11. Intuition: a place for intuition? 12. Infant observation with Esther Bick method: a privileged experience for the development of intuition 13. Interpretation and intuition: transmission of scientific contents and emotional contexts in psychotic fields