Bion: An Introduction

by Nicola and Abel-Hirsch

Book Overview

Bion's life spanned key events in the twentieth century. Born in India in 1897, he came to boarding school in England aged 8 and at 18 fought in the tanks in World War One. He trained as a doctor between the wars and, in his World War Two work for the army, he was an innovator. After the war, he became a patient of Melanie Klein, qualified as a psychoanalyst, and was part of an extraordinary period in psychoanalysis of work with psychotic mechanisms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912691833
• ISBN13: 9781912691838
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"