A Clinical Application of Bion's Concepts

Sandler, P.C.

Introduction -- Real Life is the Stuff Dreams are Made of -- A space-time context for Freud’s “Interpretation of Dreams” -- “The Interpretation of Dreams”: a scientific tradition and resistance to it -- Old wine in new bottles: authors reviving Freud’s psychoanalytic ethos -- Bion’s exploration of the “royal road” -- Functions of dreams -- Clinical illustrations -- Transformations and Invariants -- Observation and communication -- Clinical illustrations -- Container and Contained -- Bion’s theory of container and contained -- Empirical sources: container and contained in the clinic -- Catastrophic Change -- Catastrophic change or fear of change felt as catastrophe? -- When addiction means diminution: clinical illustrations