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

2009-2010

IPI SLC's 2009-10 Calendar is currently being finalized, and details will be added as they become available. Please check back soon. Thank you.

2009

September

September 9: Master Speaker Videoconference Study Group

September 11: Master Speaker Videoconference Series Seminar: Richard Billow (in Long Island):
Bion for the Clinician Part 1

September 18: Mark Epstein, MD in SLC
Full-Day Conference: The Buddha’s Self-Analysis: Meditation as a Path From Object Relating to Object Usage

September 23: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: David Scharff: Introduction I to Psychodynamic Couple Therapy (presenting from Washington DC)

September 30: Master Speaker Videoconference Study Group

October

October 2: Master Speaker Videoconference Series Seminar: Ron Aviram (in Long Island):
The Social Object and the Nature of Prejudice)

October 7: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Christel Buss-Twachtmann: Introduction II to Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy (London)

October 21: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: David Hewison: Shared Unconscious Phantasy in Couple Psychotherapy: A Review (London)

October 23: Movie Night
Another Woman: Moderated by Stephen Morris, PhD

October 27: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

November

November 4: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Jim Poulton: Negotiating Individual and Joint Transferences in Couple Therapy (Salt Lake City)

November 10: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

November 11: Master Speaker Videoconference Study Group

November 13: Master Speaker Videoconference Series Seminar: Jerrold Post (in Washington DC):
When Hatred is Bred in the Bone: The Psychocultural Foundations of Contemporary Terrorism

November 18: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Susanna Abse: Intimacy and the Adult Couple (London)

December

December 1: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

December 2: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: Yolanda Varela: The Impact on Couples and their Families of Unresolved Mourning (Panama City, Panama)

December 9: Master Speaker Videoconference Study Group

December 11: Master Speaker Videoconference Series Seminar: David Hewison (in London, Tavistock Center for Couple Relationships):
When the Good ‘Other’ Turns Bad: Reflections on Difficulties in Relating across Difference

December 15: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

December 16: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy: David Hewison: Thoughts on Catastrophe and Transformation in ‘American Beauty’ (London)

2010

January

January 12: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

January 20: Master Speaker Videoconference Study Group

January 22: Master Speaker Videoconference Series Seminar: Richard Billow, PhD (in Salt Lake):
Bion for the Clinician 2

January 22: Richard Billow, PhD in SLC:
Afternoon Conference: Loving, Hating and Knowing: Therapist and Patient Experience in Group Psychotherapy

February

February 9: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

February 17: Master Speaker Videoconference Study Group

February 19: Master Speaker Videoconference Series Seminar: Lynn Hugger (Long Island):
Mourning the Loss of the Idealized Child

February 23: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

March

March 9: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

March 17: Master Speaker Videoconference Study Group

March 19: Master Speaker Videoconference Series Seminar: Andrew Balfour (in London, Tavistock Center for Couple Relationships):
Internal Dislocation and Displacement in Old Age

March 23: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

April

April 6: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

April 14: Master Speaker Videoconference Study Group

April 16: Master Speaker Videoconference Series Seminar: Elgan Baker (Indianapolis):
Transitional Objects, Transitional Phenomenon and Transitional Space: Pathways to Relational Unconscious

April 9: Movie Night
The Lives of Others: Moderated by James Poulton, PhD

April 13: Foundations of Object Relations Psychotherapy

May

May 12: Master Speaker Videoconference Study Group

May 14: Master Speaker Videoconference Series Seminar: Mary Morgan (in London, Tavistock Center for Couple Relationships):
The impact of unconscious beliefs about the other and a relationship, on the couple

July

July 12-17: Couple, Child and Family Therapy Institute
In Salt Lake City, sponsored by IPI

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