{"product_id":"bion-and-meltzers-expeditions-into-unmapped-mental-life-9780815385783","title":"Bion and Meltzers Expeditions into Unmapped","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the influential contributions of Wilfred Bion and Donald Meltzer to psychoanalysis, \u003ci\u003eBion and Meltzer's Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life \u003c\/i\u003eexplores and addresses the clinical implications of their work, both through revisiting several of their conceptions and illustrating them with detailed clinical material from the analyses of children, adolescents, and adults. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePsychoanalysis strives towards truth; this is its essence. However, emotional truth is often unknowable and not amenable to verbal communication. This ineffable mental realm is at the heart of both Bion and Meltzer's psychoanalytic endeavours. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBion's writings reflect a developmental stage in the evolution of psychoanalysis, extending clinical work to mental realms that were seemingly unreachable. Donald Meltzer further infuses Bion's thinking with his own original notions of beauty and aesthetics, imbuing Bion's profound thinking with a poetic and lyrical tenor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting in a clear and lucid manner, Avner Bergstein integrates Bion's sometimes highly theoretical thinking with everyday clinical practice, facilitating his dense and condensed formulations and making them clinically accessible and useful. \u003ci\u003eBion and Meltzer's Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life \u003c\/i\u003eis written for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists who are attracted to Bion and Meltzer's radical thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Purporting to be a journey into the gnomic writings of Wilfred Bion and Donald Meltzer, this book is itself a highly original contribution to the problem of how psychoanalytic knowledge can be known. This engaging series of papers takes seriously Bion’s view that sensuous experience, rationality and scientific facts are obstructions to the useful knowledge of human beings. But – without empirical facts – what is there left to know? This book forces a passage through towards an intuitive form of person-to-person knowing which has been given lesser place in our Enlightenment enthusiasm for physical science. Read it; and learn from the heart.'-\u003cstrong\u003eBob Hinshelwood\u003c\/strong\u003e, Emeritus Professor, University of Essex, UK'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This book picks up some of the most valuable concepts that Bion and Meltzer gave us. Psychotic and Non-Psychotic parts of the personality, caesura, catastrophic change, unformed parts of the mind, aesthetic conflict, autism and more are just a few the reader will find. Bergstein has clearly devoted time and thinking to these crucial matters and distilled them in his own original ways. Generous clinical illustrations allow one to see how the author uses these concepts as tools in his work.'-\u003cstrong\u003eDr Robert Oelsner, MD\u003c\/strong\u003e, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst,Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Seattle; Editor of \u003ci\u003eTransference and Countertransference Today\u003c\/i\u003e, Routledge, 2013 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface 1 \u003cb\u003eThe psychotic part of the personality: Bion's expeditions into unmapped mental life 2 Transcending the caesura: Reverie, dreaming and counter-dreaming 3 Beyond the spectrum: Fear of breakdown, catastrophic change and the unrepressed unconscious 4 On boredom: A close encounter with encapsulated parts of the psyche 5 Attacks on linking or a drive to communicate? Tolerating the paradox 6 The painful vicissitudes of the patient's love: Transference-love and the aesthetic conflict 7 Obsessionality: Modulating the encounter with emotional truth and the aesthetic object 8 The ineffable \u003c\/b\u003eReferences \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018473832791,"sku":"9780815385783","price":35.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780815385783.jpg?v=1750777029","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bion-and-meltzers-expeditions-into-unmapped-mental-life-9780815385783","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}