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Erschienen in: Psychotherapie Forum 4/2015

01.12.2015 | original article

Teaching Bion’s theory in the context of child analysis: a case study

verfasst von: Gertraud Diem-Wille

Erschienen in: Psychotherapie Forum | Ausgabe 4/2015

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Abstract

Teaching Bion’s theory becomes vivid when we also use clinical material to illustrate the concepts in the arena of the here-and now in the analytic process. Many of his key concepts have been directly assimilated from Freud and Klein as projective identification, splitting, death instinct, paranoid -schizoid and depressive positions—but he used them in the service of a different outlook, a new metapsychology. In this paper I want to show how Bion’s key concepts such as the dynamic relationship between Ps–D, the container-contained, and the theory of thinking, have enriched our clinical understanding I also want to stress the fruitful thinking about transference and countertransference to experience how our patients act on us to feel things they have experienced earlier in their lives. In the analytic work with Patrick, a three years old boy, theses aspects will be elaborated.
Fußnoten
1
Some of Bion’s coined terms are explained in a glossary at the end of the paper.
 
2
Bion’s theories are elaborated in my book The Early Years of Life. Psychoanalytic Developmental Theory According to Freud, Klein and Bion” (2011).
 
3
I have also described the case of Patrick in my book Young Children and Their Parents (Diem-Wille 2015).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Teaching Bion’s theory in the context of child analysis: a case study
verfasst von
Gertraud Diem-Wille
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2015
Verlag
Springer Vienna
Erschienen in
Psychotherapie Forum / Ausgabe 4/2015
Print ISSN: 0943-1950
Elektronische ISSN: 1613-7604
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00729-015-0045-4

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