Wilfred Ruprecht Bion

1. Entity type Person
2. Birth date 8 September 1897
3. Death date 8 November 1979
4. Birth place Mattra, India
5. Death place Oxford, Great Britain
6. Gender Name Male
7. Biographical Data

   1. Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1897-1979) was an influential British psychoanalyst, who became President of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965. He studied history, medicine and was trained in psychoanalysis.

      During the war, as a military psychiatrist, he initiated a new approach to group therapy. He entered analysis with Melanie Klein in 1945, and qualified as an associate member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1950.

      Bion's main contributions to psychoanalysis belong to the fields of psychoanalytical technique and epistemology, with particular reference to the process of thinking. He approached this latter subject from different viewpoints (vertices): that of the group; of the psychotic, schizophrenic or borderline patient; and that of the individual thinker, "genius" or not, who has to deal with the pressure of attacks, from within and without, due to hostility towards both the thinking process and the resulting thoughts.  

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