IPTAR PRESENTS
THE LIFE AND WORK OF W.R.BION
by Dr. Joseph Aguayo
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3rd, 2016
9:30-4:30 PM
Dr. Joseph Aguayo is pleased to return to IPTAR to present a full-day program on Bion’s work on Saturday, December 3rd, 2016. The Saturday morning paper, ‘On the Life and Work of W.R. Bion, is based on an extensive book review that will appear in a forthcoming 2016 issue of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis of the recently issued 16 volume Complete Works of Bion (CW). This includes a power point slide presentation that includes photos of the First World War, the cumbersome tanks that Bion commanded; as well as his evocative watercolor paintings, (which appear in the Complete Works). This lecture is more a ‘virtual tour’ of Bion’s life and work, and is pitched at the level where those new and old to Bion studies may have their curiosity potentially piqued. It covers all four periods of his work–the group period; the psychosis papers; the epistemology; and the so-called ‘late’ period of his clinical seminars and aesthetic works.
The Saturday afternoon program is a clinical extrapolation of Bion’s analytic method of treating patients. It is part of a forthcoming book, co-produced with London Kleinian and Amercian colleagues, Robert Hinshelwood, Sira Dermen and Barnet Malin. This paper addresses the general question of whether we can explicate if there in fact something like a ‘Bionian clinical technique.’ He will emphasize some of Bion’s own clinical cases as well as supervisions he conducted from 1967-1978, as reproduced in his many Clinical Seminars given in North and South America an Europe. Here he takes up Bion’s final, mature clinical thought, adding in examples from his own analytic cases. He maintains that Bion’s innovations in technique in turn set the stage for the developments made by others, such as the contemporary Klein group in London.
Joseph Aguayo, Ph.D., (Biographical Statement)
Joseph Aguayo is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, also in private practice in west Los Angeles. He is a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in London and holds UCLA doctorates in both Clinical Psychology and European History. Aguayo’s recent book is a co-edited project with Barnet Malin: Bion’s Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision, (Karnac Books, 2013). He co-authored a recent paper: Aguayo, J. and Regeczkey, A. ‘Rethinking the Role of Small-Group Collaborators and Adversaries in the London Kleinian Development: 1914-1968’ in the August, 2016 issue of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Next year, he will publish Bion in Buenos Aires: Seminars and Supervisions, with co-editors Lia Pistiner de Cortinas and Agnes Regeczkey.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:
To understand the origins of Bion’s most salient ideas by exploring his war experiences and other pivotal periods in his life.
To explicate Bionian clinical technique.
To explore the effects of Bion’s innovations in technique on other theoreticians (especially the contemporary Kleinians in London).
To apply Bion’s theoretical concepts to contemporary Freudian work.
Register Here: iptar.org/aguayobion
Registration fee:
General admission: $100.00
Students and Candidates: $25.00
CE Credits: $25.
Time and Location: 9:30-4:30 pm. IPTAR 1651 Third Avenue Suite 205
5 CE Credits*
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