Bion's Legacy to Groups

Franco Borgogno is full professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Turin and training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society. He is author of several papers and books, including 'Psychoanalysis as a Journey', and lectures and supervises throughout Europe and Israel, as well as in North and South America. He is part of the Editorial Board of Italian and International psychoanalytic journals and IPA Chair of the 'Psychoanalysis and University' Committee. In 2010 Borgogno has received the Mary Sigourney Award. Parthenope Bion Talamo was the oldest child of W. R. Bion and a highly regarded analyst in her own right. After schooling in England she went to Italy to study, and later set up in private practice in Turin. She was a member of the Societa Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI) and of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She translated many of her father's books and papers into Italian, and wrote extensively on her own theories and observations. She died in Italy in 1998.

Foreword , Introduction , The internal establishment , Beyond Bion's Experiences in Groups: group relations research and learning , Are basic assumptions instinctive? , Destructiveness and creativity in organizational life: experiencing the psychotic edge , Schizophrenia from a group perspective , Oneness and Me-ness in the baG? , An attempt to apply Bion's alpha- and beta-elements to processes in society at large