Bion and Intuition in the Clinical Setting

Antònia Grimalt, M.D., is a training and supervising analyst for the Spanish Society (SEP-IPA) and the Spanish Federation of Associations of Psychotherapists (FEAP), as well as a child and adolescent training analyst for the former Hans Groen Prakken Institute (EPI). She is former Chair of the Forum for Child Psychoanalysis (FEP) and is a member of the Ed. Monografies de Psicoanàlisi i Psicoteràpia. She has taught on the works of Klein and Bion at multiple universities, and has edited works on Bion, Pere Folch, Matte Blanco and Ricardo Lombardi in both Spanish and Catalan. In 2020, she chaired the International Bion Meeting in Barcelona.

Introduction 1. Negation as a method for intuiting psychoanalytic discoveries: Bion’s turning point in “notes on memory and desire” 2. The hidden side of the moon: understanding/misunderstanding. Bion, no memory, no desire 3. Group construction of intuition: fusionality and tenderness 4. Intuition, memory and desire 5. Intuitive: privileged tool to access the primordial mind 6. Intuitive comprehension and dreaming in child analysis 7. Intuition and analyst language: A language of emotion 8. The mystical experience in search of a session 9. Continuing to disturb the sleep of the world; Bion's intuitions on dreaming and reverie 10. Intuition and texture in reverie 11. Intuition: a place for intuition? 12. Infant observation with Esther Bick method: a privileged experience for the development of intuition 13. Interpretation and intuition: transmission of scientific contents and emotional contexts in psychotic fields