The Clinical Paradigms of Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion: Comparisons and Dialogues - Paperback

by Jan Abram (Author), Robert Hinshelwood (Author)

This book introduces the psychoanalytic principles of both Winnicott and Bion, to compare the ways in which their concepts evolved, and to show how their different approaches contribute to distinctive psychoanalytic paradigms that warrant further research.

The book is comprised of five parts, each of which ends with a dialogue between authors, to provide an in-depth look at the perspectives of Winnicott and Bion on the following issues: the British Psychoanalytical Society; working with children and groups; the formulation of psychoanalytic principles; the consolidation of their ideas and new beginnings; and their clinical approaches. Structuring an analysis of Winnicott and Bion's work in this way simultaneously acts as a comprehensive introduction to their thinking and provokes further research into the ways in which the Winnicottian and Bionian traditions interact.

The Clinical Paradigms of Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion will appeal to all those seeking an introduction to psychoanalytic ideas and to these two schools of British Object Relations especially.

Author Biography

Jan Abram is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and visiting professor of the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College, London. She is vice- president of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. She has published several books and articles notably: The Language of Winnicott (1st edition 1996; 2nd edition 2007), which was judged Outstanding Academic Book of the Year (1997); Donald Winnicott Today (2013); The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic Clinical Essays on Psychic Survival- of- the- Object (2022).

R.D. Hinshelwood is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has written widely on clinical psychoanalysis and its wider applications to society, politics and ethics as well as comparative research methods.