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Joan Symington (Author), Neville Symington (Author)

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Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (14 Mar 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0415093538
ISBN-13: 978-0415093538
Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 x 1.7 cm

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"The subtlety and compactness of Bion's ideas are among his great strengths, but they have also been sources of great frustration to generations of students. The Symington's account makes them addessible even to those with limited psychoanalytic experience."
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Psychoanalysis seen through Bion's eyes is a radical departure from all conceptualizations which preceded him. In this major contribution to the series Makers of Modern Psychotherapy, Joan and Neville Symington concentrate on understanding Bion's concepts in relation to clinical practice, but their book is also accessible to the educated reader who wishes to understand the main contours of Bion's thinking. Rather than following the chronological development of Bion's ideas, each chapter looks in depth at an important theme in his thinking and describes how this contributes to his revolutionary model of the mind.

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Contemporary and credible thinker 17 April 2012

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Bion introduced The Grid, which gives perspective on development of thought. It gives an account of emergence of thought from the unconscious to concious thinking and how defence mechanisms prevent that from happening in many individuals. This is well illustrated by examples. 'Looking for the truth' in a person is Bion's main theme and I think that simplicity expresses what psychoanalysis is about.
He is an 'independent' to his presuccessors such as Melanie Klein, and veers away from some concepts or just uses different terminology to describe the same thing, however, his book can be used to critically evaluate works of others, or help us think out of the box.

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