Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion's 'Container Model' in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

by Cartwright; Duncan

• ISBN13: 9781583918784
• ISBN10: 1583918787
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317762911
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-02
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Wilfred Bion's insights into the analytic process have had a profound influence on how psychoanalysts and psychotherapists understand emotional change and pathological mental states. One of his most influential ideas concerns the notion that we need the minds of others to develop our own emotional and cognitive capacities.

Author Biography

Duncan Cartwright is head of the Centre for Applied Psychology, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. He is in part-time private practice and is the author of Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-Type Murder: Murdering Minds, Routledge, 2002.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Encountering unbearable states of mind	p. 1
Projective identification, countertransference and the containing function	p. 24
The analyst's containing mind	p. 46
Polarities of the containing connection	p. 63
Notes on interpretation	p. 84
Speculations about proto-containing experiences	p. 105
Modes of interaction	p. 132
Idealizing the container	p. 161
Some aspects of beta-mentality: on mimicry and thinking in a technological age	p. 175
Beta-mentality in violent men	p. 190
The autistic mode in agoraphobic syndrome	p. 208
The dead alive self in borderline states	p. 230
References	p. 249
Index	p. 261
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