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Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link

Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link

Paperback

Series: The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book

General PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1032149094
ISBN13: 9781032149097
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 31 2021
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This clinically focused book explores W. R. Bion's thinking on primitive and unrepresented mental states and shows how therapists can work effectively with traumatized patients who are difficult to reach.

The author illuminates how trauma survivors suffer from direct access to primal undifferentiated positions of the psyche that lie outside the symbolic order of the mind and are resistant to treatment. This access, unmediated by symbolic representation but represented in the body, disrupts the normal trajectory of development and of relationship. Integrating theory and clinical application, the book addresses processes of symbolization, somatic receptivity, and the use of countertransference when working therapeutically with undeveloped areas of the mind. It also demonstrates how primitive body relations and object relations include the body of the analyst as part of the analytic frame and are essential in establishing a therapeutic alliance.

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