Bion in the Consulting Room

Joseph Aguayo, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California and a guest member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He holds PhDs in both Clinical Psychology and European History from UCLA. He contributes to leading psychoanalytic journals and has co-edited Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision (2013) and authored Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion (2023).R.D. Hinshelwood is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; he has previously served as the clinical director at the Cassel Hospital, UK. Hinshelwood is the author of numerous publications, including Melanie Klein: The Basics (2017) and, recently, W.R. Bion as Clinician (2022).Sira Dermen was a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She was Honorary Senior Consultant at the Portman Clinic and was in full-time private practice. She has written on violence and perversion. She passed away in 2023.Nicola Abel-Hirsch is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice in London. She is the author of numerous publications, including Bion: 365 Quotes (2019), and she is the editor of Hanna Segal’s last book, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (2007).

• Introduction 1. Working Clinically with Groups 2. Tracing the Clinical Trajectory and Technical Relevance of Bion’s Cases and Theorizing from the ‘Psychosis’ Period—(1950-1957) 3. The Psychosis Papers, (1958-1959) 4. Clinical Restlessness: The 1960s 5. Wilfred Bion’s Clinical Seminars in North and South America and Europe—1967-1978: A Clinical Method of Enquiry as an Implicit Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique 6. The Brazilian Clinical Seminars 7. Conclusions on Bion’s Method of Clinical Enquiry: Similarities and Differences