Learning from Experience

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Jason Aronson, 1994 - Psychology - 111 pages
"As the problems raised in this book are fundamental to learning they have a long history of investigation and discussion. In phsycho-analytical practice, particularly with patients displaying symptoms of disorders of thought, it becomes clear that psycho-analysis has added a dimension to problems if not to their solution.'This book deals with emotional experiences that are directly related both to theories of knowledge and to clinical psycho-analysis, and that in the most practical manner."--Wilfred R. Bion, from the Introduction.
 

Contents

Chapter One
1
Chapter Two
4
Chapter Three
6
Chapter Four
8
Chapter Five
10
Chapter Six
13
Chapter Seven
15
Chapter Eight
17
Chapter Seventeen
50
Chapter Eighteen
53
Chapter Nineteen
55
Chapter Twenty
59
Chapter TwentyOne
64
Chapter TwentyTwo
66
Chapter TwentyThree
72
Chapter TwentyFour
76

Chapter Nine
20
Chapter Ten
24
Chapter Eleven
28
Chapter Twelve
31
Chapter Thirteen
38
Chapter Fourteen
42
Chapter Fifteen
45
Chapter Sixteen
47
Chapter TwentyFive
79
Chapter TwentySix
82
Chapter TwentySeven
89
Chapter TwentyEight
95
Index
107
The Grid
112
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About the author (1994)

Wilfred Bion worked clinically with psychotic patients and made many significant contributions in this area, viewing schizophrenic thinking as a difficulty in the "linking" of thoughts and objects. His concept of the "container" and the "contained" emphasizes the role of empathy in the infant-mother dyad. He used the term "alpha function" to conceptualize how the data of emotional experience is processed and digested, and he developed the "grid" to locate the development and transformation of psychic elements. Wilfred Bion died in 1979.