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

2008-2009

IPI SLC's 2008-9 Calendar is currently being finalized, and details will be added as they become available. Please check back soon. Thank you.

2008

September

September 26: Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D. in SLC (videoconference)
The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual and Character Disorders

September 26: Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D. in SLC
Afternoon Conference: Psychotherapy with Attachment-Disordered Adults: Working Effectively with Narcissistic, Psychopathic and Paranoid Clients

October

October 9: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

October 23: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

October 24: Nasr Ilahi (British Psychoanalytic Society) in Long Island (videoconference)
Reflections on Narcissistic States - An Object Relations Perspective Part 1

October : Introduction to Object Relations Seminar begins

October : Special Topics in Object Relations Seminar begins

November

November 6: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

November 7: Movie Night
Lars and the Real Girl (Moderated by Stephen Morris, Ph.D.)

November 14: Linda Hopkins in DC (videoconference)
Life and Work of Masud Khan

November 20: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

December

December 4: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

December 5: Richard Waugaman in Omaha (videoconference)
Dissociative Identity and Multiple Personality Disorders

2009

January

January 8: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

January 16: Virginia Ungar (Argentine Psychoanalytic) in Long Island (videoconference)
The Work of Child Analysis

January 22: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

February

February 12: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

February 13: Steve Tuber in Long Island (videoconference)
Understanding Winnicott Part II

March

March 12: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

March 20: Steve Tuber in Omaha (videoconference)
Understanding Winnicott Part III

March 26: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents

March 27: Movie Night
Spellbound (Moderated by Colleen Sandor, Ph.D.)

April

April 17: Judith Mitrani in SLC (videoconference)
The Problem of Empathy: Bridging the Gap between Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis Toward a Better Understanding of Autism

April 17: Judith Mitrani in SLC, Ph.D.
Afternoon Conference: Working with Primitive States of Being in Adult Patients

May

May 8: Nasr Ilahi in Long Island (videoconference)
Reflections on Narcissistic States - An Object Relations Perspective Part 2

June

July

July : Couple, Child and Family Therapy Institute

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