COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I REAL LIFE IS THE STUFF DREAMS ARE MADE OF; CHAPTER ONE A space-time context for Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams"; CHAPTER TWO "The Interpretation of Dreams": a scientific tradition and resistance to it; CHAPTER THREE Old wine in new bottles: authors reviving Freud's psychoanalytic ethos; CHAPTER FOUR Bion's exploration of the "royal road"; CHAPTER FIVE Functions of dreams; CHAPTER SIX Clinical illustrations; PART I I TRANSFORMATIONS AND INVARIANTS; CHAPTER SEVEN Observation and communication; CHAPTER EIGHT Clinical illustrations
Summary
This work depicts clinical applications stemming from Dr Wilfred Ruprecht Bion's contributions to psychoanalysis. It may be used as a practical companion to The Language of Bion: A Dictionary of Concepts also by P.C. Sandler. Both constitute a natural arrangement of Bion's concepts; "natural" being the help the selected concepts may provide to any analyst who understands and uses the observations underlying the concepts effectively in his or her everyday clinical work. It also contains expansions of Bion's concepts arising out of clinical observations, made possible by those very contributions
