The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro

Theoretical Analysis and Clinical Application
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-76674-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series

This exciting and original collection explores Antonino Ferro’s post-Bionian Field Theory, expanding upon the analytic work of Wilfred Bion to focus on the intersubjective development of psychic regulatory processes.

Written by members of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies who have maintained a close and fruitful collaboration with Ferro and his colleagues, the book centers on understanding, engaging and treating primitive mental states. Ferro's Field Theory operationalizes Bion’s concept of an analyst who is not the repository of ‘the truth’, but is instead one who has the capacity to listen, to dwell in doubt, to utilize reverie, humor and play, and facilitate the transformation of previously unthinkable aspects of the patient’s experience into articulatable mental elements such as pictorial images, thoughts and dreams. Ferro’s contributions and their analysis are especially relevant to working with primitive character disorders, the difficulties of which lie beyond neurosis and the comfortable reach of the precepts of classical analytic technique.

Each chapter features detailed clinical examples that explicate and apply post-Bionian Field Theory, making this book an interesting and useful read for analysts and analytic therapists of all orientations, who work with patients in all diagnostic categories.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levine, Howard B

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Transformational Vision of Antonino Ferro 2. The Logic of the Field 3. Post-Bionian Field Theory: An Illustration 4. Dreaming Upstream: Pictograms and the Field 5. An Invitation to Think: Trauma, Aporia and the Intersubjective Field – A Clinical Example 6. The Hallucinated Field 7. E Pluribus Unum: Origins of the Analytic Field 8. Field Theory and Child Work: Playing on Separate and Overlapping Fields 9. Coda: The Field of the Future, the Future of the Field

Über Autor(innen)

Howard B. Levine is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society, NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, and is in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable, Editor-in-Chief of The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series and a Director and founding member of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies.