Quotes from Wilfred Bion

"I shall state the theory first in terms of a model, as follows: The infant suffering pangs of hunger and fear that it is dying, wracked by guilt and anxiety, and impelled by greed, messes itself and cries. The mother picks it up, feeds it and comforts it, and eventually the infant sleeps.

Reforming the model to represent the feelings of the infant we have the following version: the infant, filled with painful lumps of faeces, guilt, fears of impending death, chunks of greed, meanness and urine, evacuates these bad objects into the breast that is not there. As it does so the good object turns the no-breast (mouth) into a breast, the faeces and urine into milk, the fears of impending death and anxiety into vitality and confidence, the greed and meanness into feelings of love and generosity and the infant sucks its bad property, now translated into goodness, back again."

Bion, W.R. (1963). Elements of Psycho-Analysis, p. 31

IPI SLC Calendar

2007-2008

IPI SLC's 2007-8 Calendar is currently being finalized, and details will be added as they become available. Please check back soon. Thank you.

2007

August

Ongoing: Infant Observation Seminar
Contact: Christine Norman, LCSW (531-7389 x 5)

September

September 14: Irene Cairo, M.D. and Rogelio Sosnik, M.D., Part 1 (videoconference)
Bion's Papers on Thinking
Reading: Selections from Second Thoughts (to be announced)

October

October 5: James Poulton, Ph.D. (videoconference) (from Salt Lake City)
The Uses and Misuses of Self-Disclosure in Analytic Therapy

October 13: David Scharff, MD
One-Day Conference: Sexuality and the Couple

October 15: Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar

October 29: Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar

November

November 2: Irene Cairo, M.D. and Rogelio Sosnik, M.D., Part 2 (videoconference)
Bion on Psychosis

November 12: Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar

November 26: Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar

December

December 7: Richard Zeitner, Ph.D. (from Salt Lake City) (videoconference)
Being an Individual while Being in a Couple

December 7: Richard Zeitner, Ph.D.
Afternoon Conference: A Case of a Patient with a Sadomasochistic Transference and the Analyst's Contribution to Perverse Enactments

December 10: Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar

2008

January

January 7: Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar

January 11: Pier Ferrari (videoconference)
Mirror Neurons

January 25: Movie Night
American Beauty (Moderated by Colleen Sandor, Ph.D.)

January 28: Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar

February

February 1: Esther Rashkin (videoconference) (from Salt Lake City)
Do Androids Have Mothers? Star Trek and the Dance of Analysis

February 4: Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar

March

March 3: Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar

March 14: Carl Bagnini (videoconference)
Keeping a Partially Closed Mind: On Retrieving Unprocessed Countertransference

March 17: Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar

March 28-30: International Conference on Couple, Child and Family Therapy:
Encountering the Slippery Slope in Psychoanalytic Family Therapy

April

April 18: Bruce Fink, Ph.D. (videoconference)
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners

April 11: Movie Night
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Moderated by James Poulton, Ph.D.)

May

May 9: Steven Tuber, Ph.D. (videoconference)
The Remarkable Dr. Winnicott: Key Moments in Early Development

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