COVER; ATTENTION AND INTERPRETATION; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Medicine as a Model; Chapter 3 Reality Sensuous and Psychic; Chapter 4 Opacity of Memory and Desire; Chapter 5 Theories: Particular Instance or General Configuration; Chapter 6 The Mystic and the Group; Chapter 7 Container and Contained; Chapter 8 Vertices: Evolution; Chapter 9 Ultimate Reality; Chapter 10 Visual Images and Invariants; Chapter 11 Lies and the Thinker; Chapter 12 Container and Contained Trans formed; Chapter 13 Prelude to or Substitute for Achievement; REFERENCES; Index
Summary
Bion argues that for the study of people - whether individually or in groups - accurate observation is essential. Problems of language are given careful consideration, and an attempt is made to show how certain psychological problems can be usefully compared with mathematical formulations
