Foreword
Meg Harris Williams
Introduction and required reading
1. Experiences in groups
2. Re-view of ‘Group dynamics’ and ‘The imaginary twin’
3. The schizophrenia papers
4. Approach to a theory of thinking
5. Alpha-function and beta-elements
6. Container and contained – the prototype of learning
7. The elements of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical objects
8. The role of myth in the employment of thoughts
9. Psychoanalytical observation and the theory of transformations
10. Analytic truth and the operation of multiple vertices
11. ‘Learning about’ as resistance to ‘becoming’
12. The bondage of memory and desire
13. The psychoanalytic couple and the group
14. Review: catastrophic change and the mechanisms of defence
Appendix: A note on Bion’s concept ‘reversal of alpha-function’
Index
