Bion and Primitive Mental States

Trauma and the Symbiotic Link
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-14909-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Reihe: The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series

This clinically focused book explores W. R. Bion’s thinking on primitive and unrepresented mental states and shows how therapists can work effectively with traumatized patients who are difficult to reach.

The author illuminates how trauma survivors suffer from direct access to primal undifferentiated positions of the psyche that lie outside the symbolic order of the mind and are resistant to treatment. This access, unmediated by symbolic representation but represented in the body, disrupts the normal trajectory of development and of relationship. Integrating theory and clinical application, the book addresses processes of symbolization, somatic receptivity, and the use of countertransference when working therapeutically with undeveloped areas of the mind. It also demonstrates how primitive body relations and object relations include the body of the analyst as part of the analytic frame and are essential in establishing a therapeutic alliance.

Illustrated with detailed clinical vignettes, Bion and Primitive Mental States is important reading for psychoanalysts, psychologists, social workers, and educators who wish to understand primitive states of mind and body in patients who have previously been considered untreatable.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eekhoff, Judy K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Trauma and Primal States of Mind 2. No Words to Say it 3. The Black Hole: Alarm Signal of Catastrophe 4. Primitive Identification and Confusional Mental States 5. Terrified by Suffering, Tormented by Pain 6. Introjective Identification: The Analytic Work Of Evocation 7. Breaking Up, Breaking Down, Breaking Through 8. The Spark of Life 9. Intuition and Transformation in O

Über Autor(innen)

Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA, is an IPA-certified training and supervising psychoanalyst in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is the author of Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective.