Explorations in Bion's 'O'

Afsaneh K. Alisobhani (Psy.D.) is a training and supervising psychoanalyst, a faculty member and the past Vice President of Newport Psychoanalytic Institute, and a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis. She is a member of the faculty at the University of California, Irvine, School of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and a member of the University of California/NCP Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium since 2002. She was the co-chair of the International Bion Conference in Los Angeles in 2014. She is the founding member, faculty and supervisor at Tehran Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (TCPS) in Tehran, Iran. She is a lecturer and supervisor in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) and Ruzbeh Hospital in Tehran, Iran. She is also a supervisor and lecturer at China American Psychoanalytic Alliance.Glenda J. Corstorphine (Psy.D.) is a training and supervising analyst and faculty member and the past Vice President of Newport Psychoanalytic Institute. Prior to receiving her doctorate from NPI she received a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Masters in Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. She is a former board member at NPI and former Director of NPI’s Pasadena campus. She was the co-chair of the International Bion Conference in Los Angeles, 2014. She has been in private practice in Pasadena, CA, for over 25 years.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORSINTRODUCTIONSECTION I EVERYTHING WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT1 BION CROSSES THE RUBICON - The Fateful Course - and Curse - of "O" in Psychoanalysis and the Furies Left in its WakeJames Grostein2 O - Bion’s Catch-22Annie ReinerSECTION II BION’S JOURNEY TOWARD O3 Wilfred Bion’s Los Angeles Seminars (9167): A Gateway to Contemporary Kleinian TechniqueJoseph AguayoSECTION IIITRANSFORMATION AND O4 Between Emotion and EvolutionJeffrey Eaton5 Authentic PleasureCecil José Rezze and João Carlos Braga6 Writing and Transmission in Bion: Group Model, Pictorial Model andTransformation in "O" Model Adriana Salvitti7 Tropisms At-one-ment and Mental GrowthLia PistinerSECTION IV FAITH AND O8 Reciprocal Kindling, Emergent Life: Bion's Faith in O, in Search of Emotional TruthKeri Cohen9 Stormy Navigation With Our "Secret Companion" of Incredulity Towards Faith In "O" Monica HorovitzSECTION V CATASTROPHE, CATASTROPHIC CHANGE AND O10 Beyond the Spectrum: Catastrophic Change, Fear of Breakdown and the Unrepressed UnconsciousAvner Bergstein11 The Girl Who Gave Me a Kiss on the Finger: How the Concrete and the Abstract Mix in Psychotic SymbolizationAlessandro Bruni12 Thinking, Knowing, not Knowing, No MindMary Sonntag13 Dreams, Transformations and Hope Jani Santa MaríaSECTION VICEASURA AND O14 Increased Hypnagogic States, Subthalamic Fears and CaesuraArnaldo Chuster15 Careful Emptiness and Improvisational Listening in Psychoanalytic Education: Elements of Bion’s 1975 Recorded Caesura Lecture Not Contained in the Printed VesionJulie McCaig16 Caesuras and Dis-caesuras: Causality, Morality and EnvyRenato Trachtenberg17 Conjectures About Dreams, Memories and Caesuras Carmen Mion SECTION VII CREATIVITY AND O18 On the Verge of ‘Madness’: Creativity and the Fear of InsanityClaudio Castello Filho19 Induction of Numbing Deadening Narcosis by Primitive Superego Sources: A Method of Attacking Links by Severe Compromise of AttentionMichael Paul20 Being in The Thought-Flow: Authentic Movement and Bion’s "O"Debora Sherman21 "The Analyst is Present": Viewing the Psychoanalytic Process as Performance ArtAlan Karbelnig22 A Memoir of the Future: Reading, Proof and EnactmentGuelfo Margherita SECTION VIIIFREUD, KLEIN, WINNICOTT, LACAN AND O23 Not O and Not K. Then What is the Navel of the Truth?Andrea Boccochiola 24 The Primitive Somatopsychic Roots of Gender Formation, Intimacy and the Development of Psyche with Implications for Psychoanalytic TechniqueJames Gooch25 Lost to Repetition: Hysteria From Perspectives of Bion, Lacan and Green Avedis Panajian26 Truth, Beauty, RealityPaulo Sandler 27 Regression in the Work of Bion and Winnicott, Rudi Vermoté28 Was Freud a Bionian? Björn Salomonsson SECTION IX O IN THE CONSULTING ROOM29 From Knowing to Becoming and from an Informed Mind to a Nourished Mind Darcy Portolese30 Catastrophe and Faith in Anorexia Nervosa Tom Wooldridge31 From a Talking Hole to a Container for GrowthMajlis Salomonsson32 Penelope’s Suitors: From Reality to PlayEsther Hadassa Sandler 33 Understanding the Reversal of the Alpha Function Through a CaseAnnie StümerSECTION X - EPILOGUEAvner BergsteinGisele de Mattos BritoAlessandro BruniNanci CarterMonica HorovitzINDEX