Bion's Emotional Links

Love, Hate and Knowledge
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-89762-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series

In Bion’s Emotional Links, Judy K. Eekhoff explores emotion as a bridge between unrepresented and represented states, highlighting the importance of both internal emotional and external relationships in the development of the mind.

Informed by Bion’s focus on analytic technique, Eekhoff includes clinical vignettes from her own work with patients who have endured trauma. She explores somatic processes and how effective analysis can break down unhealthy defence mechanisms employed by individuals which often leads to a perpetual cycle of retraumatising the self. Eekhoff shows how, through an understanding of dreams as a representation of the inner self and hope as a means of finding and retaining one’s sense of self, barriers can be broken down to free patients from a cycle of dread and dissociation. She places the individuality of the analyst at the forefront of their vital work, eschewing a dogmatic approach while carefully nurturing and respecting traditional psychoanalytic theories. Through this important work, readers will be equipped with the tools to recognize symbiotic relationships, both those in the patient’s personal life and in the relationship between analyst and analysand.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eekhoff, Judy K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Essence of Being 2. Love, Hate, and Curiosity: Bion’s Model of the Development of the Mind 3. Body as Dream Space 4. In Defense of Hope 5. Premonition: Hope and Dread in the Analytic Hour 6. Psychic Equivalency as an Aspect of Symbiosis 7. The Primordial Symphony of Life: Truth and the Body 8. Perceptual Identification as Analytic Receptivity of Dissociative States 9. Between the Real and the Imaginary: Truth and Lies in the Psychoanalytic Encounter 10. The Perversion of Truth and the Disruption of Passion 11. Body Relations and the Black Hole 12. Missing Emotional Links 13. Time, Space, and Dimensionality as Somatic Representations 14. Catastrophe and Creativity: From Fragmentation to Emergence

Über Autor(innen)

Judy K. Eekhoff is an International Psychoanalytic Association-certified training and supervising psychoanalyst in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is the author of Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link (2021) and Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective (2019).