The Complete Works of W.R. Bion: All Volumes

by Wilfred R. Bion, Chris Mawson (Editor)

The Complete Works of W. R. Bion is now available. Comprising sixteen volumes, this edition has been brought together and edited by Chris Mawson with the assistance of Francesca Bion. Incorporating many corrections to previously published works, it also features previously unpublished papers. Including a general index and editorial introductions to all the works, these volumes will be a useful and valuable aid to psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians, and all those interested in studying and making use of Bion's thinking. Bion's writings, including the previously unpublished papers and additions to his Cogitations, collected together in the Complete Works, show that the clinical thrust of Bion's work has clear lines of continuity with that of Melanie Klein, just as her work has an essential continuity with the later work of Freud. In Bion's clinical work and supervision the goal remains insightful understanding of psychic reality through a disciplined experiencing of the transference and countertransference; the setting and the method - however much Bion's terminology might suggest otherwise - remains rigorously psychoanalytic. Table of contents Volume I The Long 1897-1919 (Part of a Life) Volume II All My Sins Another part of a Life The Other Side of Family Letters Volume III War Memoirs 1917-1919 Volume IV The 'War of Nerves' (1940) On Groups (1943) The Leaderless Group Project (1946) Psychiatry at a Time of Crisis (1948) Group Methods of Treatment (1948) Language and the Schizophrenic (1955) Experiences in Groups and Other Papers (1961) Learning from Experience (1962) Volume V Elements of Psycho-Analysis (1963) Taming Wild Thoughts (I): The Grid (1963) Change from Learning to Growth (1965) Volume VI Memory and Desire (1965) Catastrophic Change (1966) Second Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis (1967) Notes on Memory and Desire (1967) Attention and A Scientific Approach to Insight in Psycho-Analysis and Groups (1970) Book Reviews (1966) Volume VII Brazilian 1973 Sao Paulo Lectures 1974 Sao Paulo Lectures 1974 Rio de Janeiro Lectures Volume VIII Clinical Brasilia 1975 Contributions to Panel Brasilia, a New Experience (1975) Sao Paulo (1978) Bion in New York and Sao York (1977) Sao Paulo (Ten talks) (1978) Volume IX The Tavistock Seminars (June 1976 - March 1979) The Italian Seminars (1977) A Paris Seminar (July 1978) Volume X Two The Grid (1971) Caesura (1975) Four Discussions (1976) Four Emotional Turbulence (1976) On a Quotation from Freud (1976) Evidence (1976) Making the Best of a Bad Job (1979) Interview with Anthony Banet Jnr (1976) Taming Wild Thoughts (II): Untitled (1977) Volume XI Cogitations Review of Cogitations, by Andre Green Volume XII A Memoir of the Book 1 Volume XIII A Memoir of the Book 2 Volume XIV A Memoir of the Book 3 (with expanded Key) Volume XV Unpublished The Conception of Man (1961) Penetrating Silence (1976) New and Improved (1977) Further Cogitations (1968-1969) Appendix The Days of Our Lives (1994), by Francesca Bion Appendix 'Catastrophic Change' and 'Container and Contained Transformed': a comparison, by Chris Mawson Appendix Standardized Bibliography of Bion's Works, compiled by Harry Karnac Volume XVI References General

4352 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2014