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Something of an enigma, Bion often doesn't write in the way one would expect of a psychoanalyst, but is being read ever increasingly around the world, in and outside the psychoanalytic community. Certain of his comments are often quoted, whilst swathes of his work lie almost untouched. How to make some of the detail of this work available? What he writes is often dense in the way the structure of a poem can be, and the book has the format of a 'poem a day' collection - providing a way into his complete work a quote at a time. Along with commentaries by Abel-Hirsch are thoughts on Bion's work drawn from papers by other analysts from the UK, the Americas, and Europe.The book is structured in a way that it is hoped will inform and interest the general reader as well as giving something new to psychoanalyts and others who already know his work well.There are two indexes, a detailed conventional one and an index of first (or key) lines. Beginning with Bion's autobiography 'The Long Weekend' the book includes quotes from the best known seminal papers of the 50's (including his Theory of Thinking); the increasingly unexpected content of the four books that followed; the International Seminars, and his novel 'A Memoir of the Future' (in which we see him relating to the turbulence his work had stirred in earlier years, and talking 'at the end of the day' still with a genius for observing human beings and how they can change - or not). Bion's more 'relaxed' writings (personal notes, letters and the novel) throw light on the more condensed comments in his books, and where appropriate the two have been put together.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49737836593425,"sku":"NGR9781782205869","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50726688588049,"sku":"GOR010235231","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51421661430033,"sku":"CIN1782205861VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51724850528529,"sku":"GOR014378462","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1782205861.jpg?v=1751410783"},{"product_id":"bion-book-nicola-abel-hirsch-9781912691838","title":"Bion","description":"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 in patients. In the late 1950s, he identified the configuration container\/contained as being at the heart of human development. He looked outside of psychoanalysis to philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, and even theo-mystical thinkers. His work evolved radically throughout the 1960s and, at age 70 when many would be thinking of slowing down, he emigrated to California and began to travel internationally, giving lectures and supervisions across three continents. After Freud, Bion appears to be the most quoted psychoanalyst of our time and this book provides the opportunity, even for those familiar with his work, to gain insight into its sheer breadth, showcased so brilliantly in this slim volume.    As author of Bion: 365 Quotes, Nicola Abel-Hirsch’s immersion in Bion’s vast œuvre has enabled a comprehensive introduction to Bion and his work. Her lightness of touch, whilst retaining the necessary depth, makes it a joy to read. Bion and his work can be somewhat enigmatic but Abel-Hirsch’s understanding offers the ideal introduction to the man and his work.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745932255505,"sku":"NGR9781912691838","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51572141785361,"sku":"GOR014332924","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52662738616593,"sku":"NLS9781912691838","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912691833.jpg?v=1751984965"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-nicola-abel-hirsch.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}