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A Clinical Application of Bion's Concepts: Verbal and Visual Approaches to Reality
Author(s): P.C. Sandler (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 314 pages
- ISBN-10: 1780490682
- ISBN-13: 9781780490687
Book Description
This book presents many correlations which link remarkable theories from Bion with a detailed selection of the author’s personal clinical experiences. It demonstrates the real existence of conditions that allow dialogue and clinical investigation by the analytic pair.
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Review
‘This closing volume of the series A Clinical Application of Bion’s Concepts presents many correlations which link remarkable theories from Bion with a detailed selection of personal clinical experiences spanning almost four decades of psychoanalytic practice. The reader is invited to get in touch with theories of observation devised by Bion in the 1960s – which, alas, are still unknown to a sizeable number of members of the psychoanalytic movement. Starting from Bion, Sandler proposes models and modulating tools borrowed from mathematics and physics. Part I is a significant metapsychologicalwork and requests conditions of receptive minds, endowed with discipline and daring, to foster our adventure into exploring the Unknown in our clinical practice.’Despite its eminently practical intention, the book presents to some readers agreeable surprises in the form of developing theoretical elaborations. Some readers may feel the path travelled by Sandler as shocking: sometimes full of awe and fright. As in most situations like that, it may promote sensible and energetic rewards. I dare to say that “A personal equation in two movements” demands a loving reader equipped with courage and strict confidence, and shielded by mature compassion!’- From the Introduction by Antonio Sapienza
About the Author
Paulo Cesar Sandler, MD, MSc, MhFAB, is a Training Analyst at the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanalise de Sao Paulo, Psychiatrist at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (IMREA) at the Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, and author of several books in Portuguese. He has written many papers and book chapters, some of which have been published in English and French. He has translated most of Bion’s books and papers into Portuguese and has organized several international meetings on the work of Bion. Dr Sandler currently teaches in a post-graduate course at the University of Sao Paulo, and at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis of the SBPSP, giving courses about the work of Freud, Klein and Bion. He has worked in private psychoanalytic practice since 1974, having previously worked with psychotics in a traditional in-patient clinic, as well as in group-oriented community psychiatry, including epidemiology of mental disorders, in the local Public Health School.
