Clinical Application of Bion's Concepts

Paulo Cesar Sandler, MD, MSc, MhFAB, is a Training Analyst at the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanalise de Sao Paulo, Psychiatrist at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (IMREA) at the Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, and author of several books in Portuguese. He has written many papers and book chapters, some of which have been published in English and French. He has translated most of Bion's books and papers into Portuguese and has organized several international meetings on the work of Bion. Dr Sandler currently teaches in a post-graduate course at the University of Sao Paulo, and at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis of the SBPSP, giving courses about the work of Freud, Klein and Bion. He has worked in private psychoanalytic practice since 1974, having previously worked with psychotics in a traditional in-patient clinic, as well as in group-oriented community psychiatry, including epidemiology of mental disorders, in the local Public Health School.

• Preface -- Introduction -- The Multi-Dimension Grid -- Scientific research in psychoanalysis -- Verifying the truth value of verbal statements uttered in an analytic session with the help of the three-dimension grid -- A hexa-dimension grid? -- A multi-dimension grid and a negative grid -- Free Associations and Free-Floating Attention -- Freie Einfälle: the verbal irruption of the unknown -- Free-floating attention: the personal factor -- Epistemology and Truth -- Psychoanalysis and epistemology: relatives, friends or strangers? Paranoid-schizoid features in the paths of psychoanalytic practice -- Truth -- Two habits of mind: naïve idealism and naïve realism -- Groups -- A sixth basic assumption?