A Clinical Application of Bion's Concepts

Paulo Cesar Sandler, MD, MSc, MhFAB, is a Training Analyst at the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanalise de Sao Paulo, Psychiatrist at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (IMREA) at the Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, and author of several books in Portuguese. He has written many papers and book chapters, some of which have been published in English and French. He has translated most of Bion's books and papers into Portuguese and has organized several international meetings on the work of Bion. Dr Sandler currently teaches in a post-graduate course at the University of Sao Paulo, and at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis of the SBPSP, giving courses about the work of Freud, Klein and Bion. He has worked in private psychoanalytic practice since 1974, having previously worked with psychotics in a traditional in-patient clinic, as well as in group-oriented community psychiatry, including epidemiology of mental disorders, in the local Public Health School.

About the Author -- Preface -- Extensions into the Realm of Minus -- Introduction -- The realm of Minus and the negative -- Clinical sources -- The hypothesis: a versus link -- Here and Now -- Bion’s Trilogy and its reception -- Analytic Function -- Bion’s contributions to the formulation of analytic function -- An analytic “compass” and “sextant” -- “Binocular vision” and the practice of psychoanalysis -- “Geography” to detect triadic syndromes -- An anti-alpha function