BION TODAY

List of contributors XIII
Acknowledgernents XIX

Section I
Introduction to Bion 1

1 Introduction: Bion today - thinking in the field 3
CHRIS MAWSON

2 Whose Bion? 33
EDNA OSHAUGHNESSY

Section II
Mainly Conceptual 41

3 The emotional experience of K 43
JAMES FISHER

4 The pleasure principie, the reality principle and the uncertainty principle 64
RONALD BRITTON

5 Bion: the phenomenologist of loss 81
DAVID BELL

6 Anticipation and interpretation 102
DAVID TAYLOR

7 Science and fiction in the psychoanalytical field 121
LIA PISTINER DE CORTI¿AS

Section III
Mainly Clinical 153

8 Clinical implications of Bions thought 155
ANTONINO FERRO

9 Relating to the superego 173
EDNA OSHAUGHNESSY

10 The consolation which is drawn from truth: the analysis of a patient unable to suffer experience 188
HOWARD LEVI E

11 Clinical vignette encompassing Bioris technical ideas 212
JAMES GROTSTEIN

12 Taking the transference: some technical implícations in three papers by Bion 216
JUDITH MITRANI

Section IV
Aesthetic 245

13 W. R. Bion and T. S. Eliot 247
ANNA DARTINGTON

14 Bions transformations: art and psychoanalysis
JANET SAYERS

Section V
Group Mentality

15 The plurability of experience
DAVID ARMSTRONG

16 Group therapy: myth in the service of work 298
CAROLINE GARLAND

17 Learning from Bions legacy to groups 317
ROBERT LIPGAR

18 Some neglected clinical material from Bions Experiences in Groups 330
JOHN GORDON

Section VI
Later Bion 347

19 Bions critical approach to psychoanalysis 349
RUDI VERMOTE

20 From resemblance to identity: the internal narrative of a fifty-minute hour 366
MARGOT WADDELL

21 Underlying pattern in Bion s Memoir of the Future 381
MEG HARRIS WILLIAMS

Appendix: W R. Bion bibliography 406
HARRY KARNAC

References 409
lndex 425