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Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (/ b iː ˈ ɒ n /; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965.
Wilfred Bion (1897-1979) was born in Muttra, northwest India, and was educated at boarding school in England - where he was unhappy, missing his parents, his Aya and the India he loved.
Dec 3, 2020 · Wilfred Bion was born in Mathura on September 8, 1897, and died in Oxford on August 28, 1979. He studied medicine but, in practice, he decided to focus on psychoanalysis. His main contribution was the theory about the way human beings think.
Throughout my time in training and practice, Wilfred Bion has been a figure of inspiration and challenge. His work can sometimes confuse more than illuminate. These three posts illustrate my understanding of some of Bion’s important ideas.
Bion makes a radical statement in his Experiences in Groups. Rather than accepting the conventional idea of a group as a collection of individuals he sees something more fundamental to the notion of the group.
[The author] takes us through Bion's personal and intellectual explorations and gives clear accounts of his key concepts, including work groups and basic assumption groups, psychotic processes, catastrophic change, abandonment of memory and desire, the mystic, and ultimate truth.
Wilfred Bion was one of the most original and influential thinkers in recent psychoanalysis. His ideas, which can be traced in direct line in the development of psychoanalytic...
Quick Reference. (1897 –1979) A British psychoanalyst and contributor to object-relations theory. Bion's most innovative work lies in the areas of group psychology and the study of thought processes—the latter in particular ...
Wilfred Bion was one of the most original and important thinkers in psychoanalysis. This is the first full biography and comprehensive explication of his contribution to psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Jan 9, 2021 · Wilfred Bion was a change leader who served in and lived through two World Wars and was deeply affected by his experiences on the battlefield and later in treating veterans with shell shock as an army psychiatrist.
