Darling Francesca: Bion,love-letters and madness

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J. Sayers , Kleinians: Psychoanalysis Inside Out (Cambridge: Polity, 2000).

For further details see W.R. Bion , War Memoirs 1917-19 ( London: Karnac, 1997).

W.R. Bion , 'Intra-group tensions in therapy', The Lancet (27 November 1943), reprinted in W.R. Bion , Experiences in Groups (London: Tavistock, 1961), 11-26;

W.R. Bion , 'The leaderless group project', Bulletin of the Meninger Clinic , 10 (3 May 1946), 77-81; W.R. Bion , 'Psychiatry at a time of crisis', British Journal of Medical Psychology, 21 (1948), 81-9.

See, for example, W.R. Bion , 'Experiences in groups', Human Relations, 3 (1950), 3-14, reprinted in Bion (1961), op. cit., 93-114.

See, for example, M. Klein (1921), 'The development of a child', reprinted in M. Klein , Love, Guilt and Reparation ( London: Hogarth, 1975), 1-53.

W.R. Bion , 'Group dynamics: a review', International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (IJPA), 33 (1952), 235-47.

See, for example, W.R. Bion , 'The "war of nerves"', in E. Miller (ed.), The Neuroses of War (London: Macmillan, 1940 ), 180-200.

W.R. Bion (1950), 'The imaginary twin', reprinted in W. R. Bion , Second Thoughts ( London: Heinemann, 1967), 3-22.

10.

W.R. Bion , All my Sins Remembered (pp. 20-70) and The Other Side of Genius (pp. 71-238) (Abingdon: Fleetwood Press, 1985), 73.

11.

Bion drew particularly on Freud's 1911 essay, 'Formulations on the two principles of mental functioning', Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, SE12 (London: Hogarth, 1974), 218-26.

12.

This is particularly well brought out by his older daughter in P. Talamo , 'Bion: a Freudian innovator', British Journal of Psychotherapy, 14 (1997), 47-59.

13.

W.R. Bion , 'Language and the schizophrenic', in M. Klein , P. Heimman and R. E. Money-Kyrle (eds), New Directions in Psycho-Analysis (London: Tavistock, 1955), 220-39 (p. 227).

14.

Ibid, 227.

15.

Bion (1985), op. cit (Note 9), 76.

16.

Ibid.

17.

Ibid., 77.

18.

Ibid, 80.

19.

Ibid., 81.

20.

Ibid, 82.

21.

Ibid., 84.

22.

Ibid, 85.

23.

Ibid., 86.

24.

Ibid, 93.

25.

Ibid., 95.

26.

Ibid, 102.

27.

Ibid., 95, n.1.

28.

Ibid, 104-5. Bion was referring in this letter to his 1955 and 1950 papers (see Notes 11 and 8).

29.

Bion (1985), op. cit. (Note 9), 110.

30.

W.R. Bion , 'Development of schizophrenic thought', IJPA, 37 (1956), 344-6, reprinted in Bion (1967 ), op. cit. (Note 8), 36-42 (p. 41).

31.

W.R. Bion , 'Differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities', IJPA, 38 (1957), 266-75.

32.

W.R. Bion , 'On hallucination', IJPA, 39 (1958), 341-9.

33.

W.R. Bion , 'On arrogance', IJPA, 39 (1958), 144-6.

34.

W.R. Bion , 'Attacks on linking', IJPA, 40 (1959), 308-15.

35.

W.R. Bion , Cogitations (London: Karnac, 1992), 2.

36.

Ibid., 5.

37.

Ibid.

38.

M. Klein , 'A contribution to the psychogenesis of manic-depressive states', IJPA, 16 (1935), 145-74.

39.

Bion ( 1992), op. cit. (Note 33), 5.

40.

Ibid., 22.

41.

Bion ( 1985), op. cit. (Note 9), 124-25.

42.

Ibid., 25.

43.

Ibid., 125-6.

44.

Ibid., 128.

45.

S. Freud , New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, SE22 (1933), 1-182.

46.

Bion (1992), op. cit (Note 33), 43.

47.

Ibid., 45.

48.

Ibid., 35-6.

49.

Bion (1958), op. cit. (Note 31).

50.

Bion (1992), op. cit. (Note 33), 53.

51.

Ibid, 55.

52.

Ibid., 63.

53.

Ibid, 64.

54.

Ibid., 71.

55.

Ibid, 73.

56.

Ibid., 74.

57.

Ibid, 76.

58.

Ibid.

59.

Ibid, 94.

60.

Ibid., 102.

61.

Ibid, 120.

62.

Ibid., 132.

63.

Ibid, 133-4.

64.

Ibid., 139.

65.

Ibid, 144.

66.

Bion (1985), op. cit. (Note 9), 134.

67.

68.

Bion (1992), op. cit. (Note 33), 150.

69.

Ibid, 157.

70.

W.R. Bion , 'A theory of thinking', IJPA, 43 (1962), 306-10, reprinted in Bion (1967), op. cit. (Note 8), 110-19 (p. 116).

71.

See, for example, Freud (1911), op. cit. (Note 10).

72.

W.R. Bion , Learning from Experience (London: Heinemann, 1962),17.

73.

M. Milner , On Not Being Able to Paint (London: Heinemann, 1957)

74.

; see also J. Sayers , 'Marion Milner, mysticism and psychoanalysis', IJPA, 83 (2002), 105-20.

75.

Bion ( 1962), op. cit. (Note 70), 25.

76.

W.R. Bion , Elements of Psycho-Analysis (London: Heinemann, 1963).

77.

Bion ( 1985), op. cit. (Note 9), 136.

78.

Ibid., 139.

79.

W.R. Bion , Transformations (London: Heinemann , 1965), 155.

80.

W.R. Bion , 'Notes on memory and desire', in E. Bott Spillius (ed.), Melanie Klein Today, Vol. 2 (London: Routledge, 1988), 17-21 (p. 19).

81.

W.R. Bion , Attention and Interpretation (London: Heinemann, 1970), 125.

82.

Bion (1985), op. cit. (Note 9), 146.

83.

Ibid, 149.

84.

Bion (1970), op. cit. (Note 78), 129.

85.

Bion (1985), op. cit. (Note 9), 164.