The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series
About the Book Series
The contributions of Wilfred R. Bion are among the most cited in the analytic literature. Their appeal lies not only in their content and explanatory value, but in their generative potential. Although Bion’s training and many of his clinical instincts were deeply rooted in the classical tradition of Melanie Klein, his ideas have a potentially universal appeal. Rather than emphasizing a particular psychic content (e.g., Oedipal conflicts in need of resolution; splits that needed to be healed; preconceived transferences that must be allowed to form and flourish, etc.), he tried to help open and prepare the mind of the analyst (without memory, desire or theoretical preconception) for the encounter with the patient.
Bion’s formulations of group mentality and the psychotic and non-psychotic portions of the mind, his theory of thinking and emphasis on facing and articulating the truth of one’s existence so that one might truly learn first hand from one’s own experience, his description of psychic development (alpha function and container/contained) and his exploration of O are "non-denominational" concepts that defy relegation to a particular school or orientation of psychoanalysis. Consequently, his ideas have taken root in many places…. and those ideas continue to inform many different branches of psychoanalytic inquiry and interest.
It is with this heritage and its promise for the future developments of psychoanalysis in mind that we present The Routledge Wilfred R. Bion Studies Book Series. This series gathers together under newly emerging and continually evolving contributions to psychoanalytic thinking that rest upon Bion’s foundational texts and explore and extend the implications of his thought.
Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind
1st Edition
Edited
By Jani Santamaría Linares
October 28, 2025
Bion, Dreamwork and the Oneiric Dimensions of the Mind allows readers to examine one of the most significant areas of clinical psychoanalytic thinking, focusing on Bion’s idiom that dreaming is the central aspect of all emotional functioning and it is a full-time ongoing psychic activity. Including...
Bion’s Emotional Links: Love, Hate and Knowledge
1st Edition
By Judy K. Eekhoff
May 20, 2025
In Bion’s Emotional Links, Judy K. Eekhoff explores emotion as a bridge between unrepresented and represented states, highlighting the importance of both internal emotional and external relationships in the development of the mind. Informed by Bion’s focus on analytic technique, Eekhoff includes ...
The Somato-Psychic Realm: Analytic Receptivity and Resonance
1st Edition
Edited
By David G. Power, Dolan Power
May 01, 2025
Influenced by the groundbreaking work of Wilfred Bion, The Somato-Psychic Realm: Analytic Receptivity and Resonance sees 10 internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts explore the complex interrelationship between our psychic and somatic selves, and highlight its promising riches and devastating ...
The Dread of Falling: Reflections on Primitive Mental States
1st Edition
By Alina Schellekes
April 17, 2025
The Dread of Falling: Reflections on Primitive Mental States offers a comprehensive and original view of primitive mental states from a psychoanalytic perspective, allowing the reader to understand the nature of these states from developmental, theoretical and clinical vantage points. The book ...
Bion's Transformations Revisited and Expanded: Essays on the Complexity of Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Arnaldo Chuster
December 17, 2024
In this illuminating volume, Arnaldo Chuster provides a thorough critique of Wilfred Bion's seminal 1965 work, Transformations. Offering a rich and nuanced opportunity to enhance one's understanding of this pivotal psychoanalytic text, Chuster establishes a link between the practice of ...
Negative Hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s Theory of Transformations: On Finding One’s Ghost
1st Edition
By Rodrigo Barahona
November 05, 2024
In this illuminating volume, Rodrigo Barahona takes up the question of transformations in hallucinosis in Wilfred Bion’s work. The book discusses how the analyst’s functioning, his receptivity and ability to make sense out of what is unconsciously occurring between himself and the patient, and the ...
Reading Bion’s Transformations
1st Edition
By Luis Cláudio Figueiredo, Marina Ribeiro, Gina Tamburrino
September 13, 2024
Reading Bion's Transformations is an in-depth reading of Bion’s 1965 work, Transformations, and investigates the epistemological concept of "O" introduced by Bion. Throughout the book, Bion’s conceptual and unconventional text is discussed step-by-step, with a focus on the first three and last ...
Bion in the Consulting Room: An Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry
1st Edition
By Joseph Aguayo, Robert Hinshelwood, Sira Dermen, Nicola Abel-Hirsch
August 16, 2024
Bion in the Consulting Room addresses the long-unanswered question of Bion’s clinical and supervisorial technique and examines the way Bion’s conceptual model and clinical practices informed his theoretical work. As Bion wrote about technique so rarely, the authors set about looking at many of his ...
The Bion Seminars at the A-Santamaría Association: Clinical and Theoretical Explorations
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard Levine, Jani Santamaría Linares
July 16, 2024
The Bion Seminars at the A-Santamaria Association offers readers insightful analyses and commentaries on Bion’s key papers and books, as well as providing a unique set of discussions and explorations of many of Bion’s central concepts and foundational texts. This diverse collection of essays brings...
The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil: Supervisions and Commentaries
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard B. Levine, Gisèle de Mattos Brito, José Américo Junqueira de Mattos
December 20, 2023
The Clinical Thinking of W. R. Bion in Brazil is comprised of thirteen transcriptions of supervisions Wilfred Bion conducted during his three teaching and speaking tours of Brazil. During these tours, Bion conducted over 130 public supervisions of analytic cases in English in which he explained his...
Recognising, Understanding and Treating Nameless States: A Psychoanalytic Exploration
1st Edition
By Bernd Nissen
December 04, 2023
In this captivating volume, Bernd Nissen considers the multiplicity of nameless states, and the impact of their discovery on psychoanalytic theory and practice. The nameless is considered through a variety of lenses: trauma, unrepresented states, autistoid/autistic states, breakdown, non-existence,...
Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion
1st Edition
By Joseph Aguayo
April 28, 2023
Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion takes a fresh approach to this much revered analyst, focusing on the unique contributions to be found in his analytical and supervisorial work and developing of received Kleinian theory. Starting from his childhood in India and his schooldays, through ...