Learning from Experience

By (author) Wilfred R. Bion

Publication date:

07 July 1977

Publisher

Jason Aronson, Inc.

ISBN-13: 9780876686874

In this book Bion describes his use of the term 'alpha-function' to conceptualize how the data of emotional experience is processed and digested. This includes his thinking on 'contact barriers' and the bearing of 'projective identification' on the genesis of thought. A Jason Aronson Book
No analyst working at deeper than oedipal levels can afford to ignore the fundamental ideas to which Bion's chief attention has been devoted.....