Reading Bion

CONTENTS
List of boxes vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Part I
Before the caesura: transformations in knowledge 37
1 Biography, 1897–1966 38
2 Experiences in Groups and Other Papers (1961) 48
3 Papers on psychosis (1953–1960) 64
4 Learning from Experience (1962) 80
5 Elements of Psychoanalysis (1963) 95
6 Transformations (1965) 114
Part II
After the caesura: transformations in O 131
7 Biography, 1967–1979 135
8 Attention and Interpretation (1970) 140
9 Second thoughts: commentary on the Selected Papers on
Psychoanalysis (1967) 169
10 A Memoir of the Future (1977) 177
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11 Lectures, seminars and some short texts as preparation for
the lectures (1973–1979) 190
12 Autobiography 213
13 The further development of Bion’s ideas 228
Conclusion 234
Addenda 237
Listening to and reading Bion 238
James S. Grotstein
My indebtedness to Bion 244
Antonino Ferro
Discovering Bion: a personal memoir 249
H.B. Levine