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Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion´s ´Container Model´ in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Duncan Cartwright
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Description for Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion´s ´Container Model´ in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Paperback. Explores the implications Bion's container model has on clinical practice. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
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.
In Containing States of Mind Duncan Cartwright explores and develops some of the implications that Bion’s container model has on clinical practice. He argues that the analyst or therapist best fulfils a containing function by negotiating irreconcilable internal tensions between his role as ‘dream object’ and ‘proper object’. The container model is also ... Read moreused to illustrate different ‘modes of interaction’ in the analytic field, the nature of particular pathological states and some of the key dilemmas faced in attempting to make unbearable mental states more bearable.
As well as addressing key theoretical problems, Containing States of Mind is a clinical text that renders complex ideas accessible and useful for psychotherapeutic and analytic practice and as such will be essential reading for all those involved in the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
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About Duncan Cartwright
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.
Reviews for Containing States of Mind: Exploring Bion´s ´Container Model´ in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
"Bion’s concept of the "container and the contained" has become one of his most well-known and used ideas – to the point that it has become taken for granted ("saturated," in Bion’s terms). Duncan Cartwright has given this concept new life, expands upon it, and integrates it with much of Bion’s other work in innovative ways. The results are exciting. ... Read moreThe author has expertly balanced profound and extensive scholarship with sound reasoning and with a reader-friendly style. A number of works on Bion have been published recently; this one is in my opinion one of the finest and most useful." – James Grotstein, Training and Supervising Analyst, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, USA "This is a challenging book in relation to the conceptualisation of the container-contained configuration but one that is extremely useful in developing an understanding of the dynamics and psychic processes inherent in the analytic relationship." – Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 55, 2010 "Bion’s concept of the "container and the contained" has become one of his most well-known and used ideas – to the point that it has become taken for granted ("saturated," in Bion’s terms). Duncan Cartwright has given this concept new life, expands upon it, and integrates it with much of Bion’s other work in innovative ways. The results are exciting. The author has expertly balanced profound and extensive scholarship with sound reasoning and with a reader-friendly style. A number of works on Bion have been published recently; this one is in my opinion one of the finest and most useful." – James Grotstein, Training and Supervising Analyst, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, USA "This is a challenging book in relation to the conceptualisation of the container-contained configuration but one that is extremely useful in developing an understanding of the dynamics and psychic processes inherent in the analytic relationship." – Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 55, 2010 "...this book impresses with its scholastic rigour and integration of psychoanalytic literature from diverse theoretical models. While firmly post-Kleinian (Meltzer, Bick, Tustin, Steiner, Ferro et al. are constant referents), Cartwright assimilates intersubjective psychoanalysis, Fonagy’s work on mentalization, and even Matte-Blanco’s bi-logical theory of psychic functioning, in this inspired elaboration of Bion’s work. Containing States of Mind is an impressive contribution to the psychoanalytic field and one against which subsequent books on the topic will be measured." - Gavin Ivey, Psycho-analytic Psychotherapy in South Africa, Vol. 18 No. 2 2010 Show Less
