Reading List: Wilfred Bion 1897-1979

What follows is a reasonably comprehensive reading list for further study. I shall be focussing on, but not confining myself to Learning from Experience and Elements of Psychoanalysis.

Bion, W.R. (1961) Experiences in Groups. Routledge, London. ------(1962) Learning from Experience. Karnac, London. ------(1963) Elements of Psychoanalysis. Karnac, London. ------(1965) Transformations. Karnac, London. ------(1967) “Notes on Memory and Desire”, Psychoanalytic Forum 2 (3), reprinted in Melanie Klein Today vol.2 (1988) ed. Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Routledge, London. ------(1967) Second Thoughts. Karnac, London. ------(1970) Attention and Interpretation. Karnac, London. ------(1977) Two Papers: The Grid and the Caersura. (Salomao.J. ed.) Imago, Rio de Janeiro. ------(1987) Clinical Seminars and Other Works. Karnac, London. ------(1990) Brazilian Lectures 1973 and 1974. Karnac, London. ------(1992) Cogitations. (Bion, F. ed.) Karnac, London. ------(2005) The Tavistock Lectures. (Bion, F. ed.) Karnac, London.

Further Reading

Bleandonu, G. (1992) Wilfred Bion. His Life and Work. FAB, London. Grinberg, L. et al. (1985) Introduction to the Work of Bion. Karnac, London. Grotstein J.M. (ed.) (1981) do i dare disturb the universe? A memorial to w.r.bion. Karnac, London. Grotstein, J.R. (2007) A Beam of Intense Darkness. Karnac, London. ------(2009) “…but at the same time and on another level…” vols 1 & 2. Karnac, London. ------(2009) “Dreaming as a ‘curtain of illusion’: Revisiting the ‘royal road’ with Bion as our guide”, IJPA 90 pp733-752. Lopez-Corvo, R.E. (2003) The Dictionary of the Work of W.R.Bion. Karnac, London. ------(2006) Wild Thoughts Searching for a Thinker. Karnac, London. Neuman, Y. (2009) “On love, hate and knowledge”, IJPA 90 pp697-712. Ogden, T.H. (2004) “An Introduction to the Reading of Bion”, IJPA 85 pp285-300. (1997) Papers from the Bion Centenary Conference, BJP vol.14:1. Pistiner de Cortinas,L. (2009) The Aesthetic Dimension of the Mind. Variations on a Theme of Bion. Karnac, London. Sandler, P.J. (2005) The Language of Bion. A Dictionary of Concepts.Karnac, London. Skelton,R. (1995) “Bion’s Use of Modern Logic”, IJPA 76 pp389-397. Symington, J.& N. (1996) The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion. Routledge, London. Symington, N. (1990) “The Possibility of Human Freedom and its Transmission (with particular reference to the thought of Bion”), IJPA 71 pp95-106.